Design by ÚĽUV
by Dana Kľučárová 
Janka Menkynová was an active visual artist in the Centre for Folk Art Production in Bratislava for amazing period of 42 years. She got acquainted with wide range of traditional materials and her manifold prototypes enhanced design in the ÚĽUV. She focused on designing small series of functional folk art items. Purpose the author always had on mind was to invent as useful shape of an item as possible and to make design that would reflect the needs and taste of modern people and that would respect traditional materials and techniques. She established a lively cooperation with makers who transformed her designs into real products. Third retrospective exhibition of J. Menkynová was opened in the mid March 2011 in the ÚĽUV Gallery.
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2011:
- Design by ÚĽUV by Dana Kľučárová
- Ján Sakala - Sculptures emphasized by colour by Martin Mešša
- Educating is “in”
- The ÚĽUV for teachers, teachers for children and youngsters by Zuzana Palicová
- To become familiar with wood... by Monika Wokaunová
- Crafts and movie industry by Nora Čechmánková
- ÚĽUV´s movie documentaries by Nora Čechmánková
- I was born under a ladder... by Stanislav Kytka
- Lace from Skýcov by Alena Rybáriková
- Best toy from wood competition again by Mária Rošková
- Točenô - Michal Hanula by Peter Šugár
- Textile, metal, technologies... by Adriena Pekárová
- Room of curiosities in the Gallery X by Eva Trilecová
- Majolica plastic art - Jitka Petrikovičová by Dana Doricová
- A dream about China that has come true by Gabriela Luptáková