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Professional experience

06.2022 – 10.2022

UI/UX designer / artist researcher @ Geisted

geisted.com
UI/UX:
  • Working together with the dev. and design team, creating user stories and customer journeys for the product
  • Analysing existing and creating high-fidelity mockups in order to ensure smooth and convenient use of the Geisted platform
  • Asset management for artist profiles & collection pages for the Geisted platform
  • Figma HTML & CSS UX research UI Mockups Material Design CJM
Research:
  • Artist research for the platform & upcoming shows
  • Social media Research
11.2017 – 06.2022

Senior media / UI designer @ Lemon One (now BOOM!), Berlin 

www.boom.co
UI/UX:
  • As a part of both tech and product team – conducting user research in order to gather feedback on user’s experience and ease of use of LemonOne products
  • Developing and expanding LemonOne styleguide to ensure consistent brand communication
  • Creating low- and high-fidelity mockups for LemonOne products such as Website, Landing pages, Booking platform, Photographer App, ensuring all interactions are intuitive and easy for customers
  • Figma Git HTML & CSS Webflow UX research Conducting user interviews UI Mockups Material Design
Media:
  • Writing guidelines, quizzes and tests for photographers & retouchers
  • Assessing photographer & retoucher applications, hiring and briefing freelancers
  • Creating visual assets for social media, designing presentations & other visual materials
  • High end photo retouching, photography
  • Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Lightroom Figma Social media
Motion / Video:
  • Creating image videos for high end real estate clients: storyboarding, photographer briefing, cutting, colour grading, motion design
  • Creating video presentations for LemonOne products, video instructions etc
  • Creating visual assets for social media, designing presentations & other visual materials
  • Adobe After Effects Premiere Pro Dragonframe Motion designAnimation Video editing
01.2022 – present

Art teacher / lecturer @ Bratec Lis School of Art

www.bl-school.com
  • Giving lectures and workshops on history of photography, cyanotype & illustration, documentary animation
  • Practical classes on camera-less techniques in illustration (cyanotype process)
  • Theoretical & practical classes on use of perspective in visual arts
  • Fine ArtVisual ArtsArt educationCyanotypeDocumentary animation Teaching
02.2018 – present

Producer / designer @ Factual Animation Film Festival (FAFF)

www.factualanimation.com
Festival production & design for Berlin edition:
  • Judging submissions, putting together the festival program with the other producers
  • Organising the festival venue
  • Creating visual assets (creating Berlin logo, trailers, banners)
  • Managing an online promo campaign on social media
  • Organising Q&A sessions with the filmmakers
  • HTML & CSS Figma WordPress Adobe Photoshop Illustrator Premiere Pro After Effects Dragonframe Social Media
Designer for London edition:
  • Judging submissions, putting together the festival program with the other producers
  • Producing visual assets (trailers, flyers, program design)
08.2017 – 10.2017

Motion design intern @ Bühnengold, Berlin

www.berlin-projekt.org/profiles/schultourtheater-buehnengold
Motion / Video:
  • Storyboarding, animation, shooting and postproduction
  • Adobe Premiere After Effects
Graphic design:
  • Theatre play posters
  • Video titles
  • Adobe Illustrator Photoshop Indesign Lightroom
09.2014 – 05.2016

Designer / gallery assistant @ MOMENTUM Berlin

www.momentumworldwide.org
Media / graphic design:
  • Designing exhibition catalogues, flyers, posters, other promo materials
  • Designing and maintaining the gallery’s website (WordPress, HTML, CSS, UI) & social media
  • WordPress Photoshop Indesign Illustrator
Photo & video:
  • Photo & video documentation of performances, events, artworks (camerawork, postproduction)
  • Event trailers (animation, motion design), catalogue photography
  • Adobe Premiere After Effects Audition Lightroom Photoshop Dragonframe
01.2012 – 08.2012

Designer @ Internet Panda, Moscow

www.crazypandagames.com/en/
Web & graphic design:
  • Advertisement & promo materials for new game features and special events (St.Patrick day, Valentine’s day, Christmas etc.) to promote them on social media
  • Landing pages for new games and existing game updates
  • HTML & CSS Adobe Photoshop Illustrator Flash Action Script 3
08.2009 – 08.2011

Web-designer @ Faberweb design studio, Moscow

Web & graphic design:
  • Working with client briefs, developing CI, concept & website mockups for various businesses
  • Designing business cards, forms, souvenir production & other corporate visual materials
  • Building & maintaining corporate websites and landing pages for special offers and promotions
  • HTML & CSS JavaScript Action Script 3 Flash Adobe Photoshop Illustrator
Photography:
  • Studio product photography & postproduction
  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
2008 – present

Freelance artist / designer

  • Photo documentation of art events, performances and art installations
  • Promo & art catalogue photography
  • Various motion design & animation projects
  • Graphic & web design projects
  • UX consultant
  • Artistic research, art & educational event production
  • Private & public art classes, lectures on art / design / art history
Higher Education

10.2013 – 05.2016

M.F.A. Media Art and Design

Bauhaus University Weimar
www.uni-weimar.de
Selected courses:
  • Documentary animation by Aline Helmcke
  • Collodion workshop “Silver and Moonshine” by Stephan Jacobs
  • Photography by Nina Röder
  • Graphics & Animation (animation theory, Blender)
  • Art interventions in MMORPG by Angela Washko
  • Fashion Clips videography
  • Documentary photography & videography
  • Mobile Web- and Hybrid Apps with HTML5
09.2012 – 09.2013

M.A. Communication Design: Graphic Design

Kingston University London
degree with distinction
www.kingston.ac.uk
Selected courses:
  • Visual communication
  • Cover Design Award – Penguin Books
  • Introduction to Illustration
09.2005 – 08.2011

Specialist Graphic- & Webdesign & E-commerce

National Research University Higher School of Economics
(former Moscow Institute of Electronics & Mathematics)
honours degree
www.miem.hse.ru/en
Courses and workshops

2022

Profession Motion designer (9 month)
CONTENTED

Jumping into sketching with Nina Stadnik
Metaphor in Magazine illustration with Sveta Mullari
Documentary animation lecture by Maria Taramaeva
Bratec Lic School

2021

Profession UX/UI designer (9 month)
CONTENTED

Art trip to Kemer, Turkey (graphics, painting)
Moscow Institute of Art and Industry

Pre-print postproduction & scanning
Comics drawing with Nina Stadnik
Visual storytelling by Marianna Rio
Bratec Lic School

2019

Acrylic flow workshop by Anne-Cécile
Kulturschoepfer Berlin

2017

Motion Design – Adobe After Effects intensive course
Cimdata Bildungsakademie

Illustration Book club
Berlin drawing

2015

Digital Painting course with David Belliveau
ESDIP Berlin

2014

Digital Illustration Intensive Course by Danny Doom
ESDIP Berlin

2013

Typography basic course
University of Arts London, St.Martin’s school

Bookbinding workshop
Letterpressing workshop
London Centre for Book Arts

2012

Adobe Illustrator practical evening course
Adobe InDesign practical evening course
Traditional illustration
Kingston University London

Reportage photography
Academy of Photography

2011

Photography and digital images editing
Academy of Photography

2009 – 11

University art trips: graphics, painting & photography around Russia (Ural, Karelia)

Foreign languages

Russian
native speaker
English
fluent, TOEFL certificate
French
fluent, DELF certificate
German
advanced, Goethe Zertifikat C1 (2020)
Dutch
beginner level, A2

Selected awards, exhibitions & screenings

2022

ART from ELSEWHERE: Danube Dialogues (Selected Artists from the MOMENTUM Collection)
BALAGAN!!!”, momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/art-from-elsewhere-danube-dialogues/

Guest Lecturer at Sevil International Women’s Documentary Film Festival
“What is documentary animation” lecture and workshop, collaboration with FAFF, sevilfest.org

Fringe Arts Bath, UK
“Ghost memories” video art, fringeartsbath.co.uk/rewind

“Haptic codes”, Patrick Heide, UK
(part of Varvara Shavrova’s project)
“1933 The story of ‘Chelyuskin’ and Shavrov” project, patrickheide.com/exhibitions/haptic-codes

“oh my data” exhibition, Berlin
BALAGAN!!!”, discursus.info/exhibitions/oh-my-data/

“Taking Flight: Birds & Bicycles Berlin” Exhibition by MOMENTUM Berlin
BALAGAN!!!”, momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/birds-bicycles/

Sunny Art Prize 2021 shortlisted artists exhibition, UK
Photo series “The lines”, sunnyartcentre.co.uk/artprize/previous-entries/shortlisted-artists-2021/

“The Migrant”, part of “Smart Music: an audiovisual adventure” by Aleksanra Toneli premiere screening at Z-inema Berlin
“The Migrant” animation, zbarberlin.com/kino-z-inema/

Kalakari film fest
The astronaut’s journal”, instagram.com/kalakari_filmfest/

Austin Lift-Off Film Festival
“The Migrant” animation, liftoff.network

2021

Lockdown Schmockdown Show by MOMENTUM, Berlin
The astronaut’s journal”, momentumworldwide.org/public-art/insideout-chb-lockdown-schmockdown/

Shortlisted for Sunny Art Prize 2021, UK
Photo series “The lines”, sunnyartcentre.co.uk/artprize/previous-entries/shortlisted-artists-2021/

Lifedrawing exhibition at Candid Arts Trust gallery, UK
Life drawing sketches, candidarts.wordpress.com

FLIXX FEST, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, flixxfest.org

FLICKFAIR Film Festival
The astronaut’s journal”, flickfair.com

2020

KinoDUEL International Film Festival, Russia
The astronaut’s journal”, kinoduel.com

Hidalgo Film Fest, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/HIDALGOFilmFest

Screening & pannel discussion participant at Mobile Animation Film Festival
The astronaut’s journal”, sillydragon.com/MobileAnimationFilmFest/

Ridgewood International Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, ridgewoodguildfilmfest.com

Prize-winner of the Sound And Vision International Film & Technology Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, soundandvisionfilmfest.homesteadcloud.com

Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, USA
BALAGAN!!!”, buskopolisfilms.com

Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, sufaf.wordpress.com/

Moscow Shorts, Russia
My first day in Weimar”, moscowshorts.com

St Albans Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, stalbansfilmfestival.com

Rome Independent Prisma Awards, Italy
The astronaut’s journal”, romeprismafilmawards.com

UK Monthly Film Festival, UK
The astronaut’s journal”, filmfreeway.com/UKMonthlyFilmFestival

2019

Participating in “Take place” performance
Performance, facebook.com/events/2265846533715231/

Winner of the Emerging Voices Division Animated Short Film category of the 2019 Mosaic Film Festival
The astronaut’s journal”, mosaicfilmfestival.weebly.com/

Co-organiser of the FAFF Berlin (Factual animation film festival)
organiser and one of the judges, factualanimation.comf

Miami Independent Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, miamindiefest.com

Dumbo Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, dumbofilmfestival.com

Winner of the audience’s award at the Watford Short Film Festival, UK
The astronaut’s journal”, watfordshortfilmfestival2018.blogspot.com

Semi-finalist of the jellyFEST – Season 4, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, thejellyfest.com

Les Femmes Underground Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, lesfemmesinternational.org

Best jury choice award of the month at Red Wood Film Festival
The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/redwoodfilmfest/

Cinefern (September 2019 edition)
The astronaut’s journal”, cinefern.com

Sketch the Moment exhibiton III
exhibiting life drawing sketches, facebook.com/events/554385668372032/

LONG STORY SHORTS | International Film Festival, Romania
The astronaut’s journal”, longstoryshorts.net

2018

The Backup festival, Germany
The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/backupfestival

Feel The Reel International Film Festival, UK
The astronaut’s journal”, feelthereeliff.com/february-2018

Capital City Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, capitalcityfilmfest.com/event/animated-shorts-2018

LifeArt Festival, Greece
The astronaut’s journal”, lifeartfestival.com

Los Angeles Short Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, smarturl.it/lsff

Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Brazil
The astronaut’s journal”, fantaspoa.com/2018/programacao

Days of German and Russian short films VKRATZE!, Russia
The astronaut’s journal”, vkratze-fest.ru/en/

Independent Days International Filmfestival, Germany
The astronaut’s journal”, independentdays-filmfest.com

iChill Manila film fest, Philippines
The astronaut’s journal”, ichilltheatercafe.com

Finalist of the European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA), Poland
The astronaut’s journal”, europe.cawards.org/

Semi-finalist of the Hollywood Screenings Film Festival, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, hollywoodscreenings.org

Semi-finalist of the Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival, Russia
The astronaut’s journal”, filmfreeway.com/EurasiaInternationalMonthlyFilmFestival

Semi-finalist of the Euregion Film Festival, participant in Q&A, Netherlands
The astronaut’s journal”, cinesud.nl/

2017

The finalist of the Near Nazareth Festival
The astronaut’s journal”, nnfestival.tk

Nomination for the Short Film Festival Beveren, Belgium
The astronaut’s journal”, filmfestivalbeveren.be

BlackBox Shortfilm Festival, Switzerland
BALAGAN!!!”, blackboxonline.org

The Actual Animation Film Fuss 2017, UK
My first day in Weimar”, factualanimation.com

Screening at the Cinema Sotterraneo at the Bauhaus University Summaery
The astronaut’s journal”, summaery.uni-weimar.de

Screening at the Sommernachtstape at Bauhaus University Summaery
The astronaut’s journal”, summaery.uni-weimar.de

The prize winner of “Barcelona Planet Film Festival” (Best Animation Short Film)
The astronaut’s journal”, barcelonaplanetfilmfestival.com

Semi-finalist of “AniMazSpot International Animation Feedback Festival”
The astronaut’s journal”, filmfreeway.com/MyFilmFestival-874130

Screening at “The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival”, USA
The astronaut’s journal”, wvmsff.com

Screening at “Gold Reel Student Film Festival”
The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/filmclubuncc

Screening at “SHORT to the Point” film festival, Romania
The astronaut’s journal”, facebook.com/shorttothepointfilmfest

2016

“Beyond BALAGAN!!! HERO MOTHER: Contemporary Art by Post-Communist Women Rethinking Heroism” at MOMENTUM Berlin
Photo series “The lines”, momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/hero-mother/

2015

Participation in the Berlin Month of Performance Art within WORKS ON PAPER III at MOMENTUM gallery
“Re:mémorer” performance, vimeo.com/127882446/

Participation in the »Entschuldigen Sie, wo finde ich denn hier das Bauhaus?« exhibition in OMA in Weimar
Photo series “Current“, uni-weimar.de/en/…bauhaus-essentia/

Winner of the Bauhaus Essentials 2015 Prize
Photo series “Current“, uni-weimar.de/de/…/summaery2015/kooperationspartner-foerderer/

Participation in the Bauhaus University “Summaery” exhibition
2 projects: photography, graphic design, uni-weimar.de/en/university/profile/events/events-2015/summaery2015/

2014

Bauhaus University “Summaery” exhibition
5 projects: photography, performance, media art, uni-weimar.de/summaery/2014/

2013

Fringe Arts Bath art festival
Red Line Artworks section, “Interruption” collage, redlineartworks.org

2012

“Photo drying” group photography exhibition in Gorkij Park, Moscow
Photo series “Every day”, kudago.com/msk/event/sushka-v-parke-gorkogo/

Kingston University Master Degree Show
”Nostalgia” project, kingston.ac.uk/events/item/550/10-sep-2013-ma-design-school-show-2013/

2009

Participation in the exhibition of art and photography of the Urals summer practice in the “Sokol Gallery”
groundmoscow.com

The prize-winner of a University conference
“School shooting” presentation, www.miem.hse.ru/en

2008

The prize-winner of a University conference
“Product placement in cartoons” presentation, www.miem.hse.ru/en

The prize-winner of a University Scientific conference
Flash-based design project on information visualization, www.miem.hse.ru/en

2007

The first place in a University Scientific conference in nomination “web-graphics”
VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) project

“The Park of Design” exhibition in the Moscow Central House of Artist
Graphics “Summer series”, cha.ru

2006

“The Park of Design” exhibition in the Moscow Central House of Artist
Street photography, cha.ru

2005

“The Park of Design” exhibition in the Moscow Central House of Artist
Painting, “The plum still life”, cha.ru