ABOUT ME

I had a lot of luck : I always met nice people, lived in beautiful cities, learned different cultures and languages. Now I am living in one of the most beautiful places of the world and doing a very nice and creative job. I am just a happy person !

I hope that it is a little bit early to make my life summery…. anyway However I have an unusual fate… but I am not alone and know very many expatriates who have the same one. So, nothing extraordinary, just uncommon ;) Of Russian descent I was born in Estonia, have a German nationality and I have been living in France now for 7 years. We moved to Hamburg when I was 19 and did my studies at Kunstschule Alsterdamm.

As freelance Art Director, I have as clients both German and French publishing agencies. A Russian who have never lived in Russia! I speak different languages but all of them with an accent. Even Russian ! I am really cosmopolitan and something of a traveller, but I consider and love Hamburg as my home city.

I’m not really sure if I made my life or if the life made me... I studied a lot but the most important things, I learned from the life and my surroundings.

"Design is hard work.
Striving for design excellence is even harder."

-Archie Boston

RESUME

8 years of experiences with international clients

	PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
	Artistic Director at SB Mag (Nice, France)
	• Design and publication of artworks, magazine page setting. • Follow through to manufacturing layout, printing and publication. • Design and creation of Advertising, graphics and text.
	Graphic Designer in the press group, f2m foodmultimedia GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
	• Design and publication of artworks, magazine page setting. • Design and creation of Advertising, graphics and text.
	Freelance Graphic Designer
	• Design and production of companies’ visual identity, on all media. • Design and implementation of online media communications. • Graphic design and production of press magazine. • Design and creation of Advertising, graphics and text. • Design, illustration and production of brochures, advertising and marketing media. • Graphic identity re-design, transformation to universal branding and implementation in mediums of packaging and planar surfaces.
	Communications Officer (SMEs Korn, Hamburg, Germany)
	• Design and production of prototypes, concept definition. • Design and management of promotional and advertising campaigns (print, promotions, advertising). • Market research, analysis and evaluation of market segments. • Creation and set-up of multi-media presentations.
	TRAINING
	Commercial Assistant Certificate / professional Bac
	• Public school of business foreign languages in Hamburg, Germany. • London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board.
	Training in Plastic Arts
	• The Workshop Friedmeyer Christian Art, Hamburg, Germany.
	Bachelor’s degree in Computer Graphics (Communication Design, Graphic Arts, Illustration and Advertising)
	• School of Fine Arts Alsterdamm, Hamburg, Germany.
	Diploma of French Studies / Level B2 (“general and spontaneous linguistic mastery”)
	• University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (CUEFLE), France.
	Master in Ingeniering Multimedia and Creation
	• University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Faculté de Lettres, Nice, France.