THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD AFFORD THE WAR? MAKE RUSSIA PAY. Make Russia Pay was a digital exhibition held in Brussels (Belgium) in December 2023, that showcased Ukrainian call for confiscation of frozen Russian assets. The event was organized by The International Center of Ukrainian Victory and The National Interests Advocacy Network ANTS. We were responsible for visual[…]
UKRAINIAN BEASTS UNLEASHED FUNDRAISING AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN As the Russian army moved forward and occupied Ukrainian territories, it destroyed not only people’s homes and critical infrastructure, but also the nation’s intangible assets and cultural heritage – with the blatantly declared purpose of destroying Ukrainian identity. Currently, the Ministry of Culture has registered more than[…]
Marked the 100th day of Russia’s war in Ukraine with series of posters mocking Putin. The idea of the creative communication was developed for a book dedicated to unsuccessful Tinder experiences ’69 Bad Dates’, and presented on February 23d, but then was put away due to the obvious reason. But in May, the book’s[…]
City Beach Club is an open-air club on the roof of a shopping mall in Kyiv’s city center, positioning itself as ‘the first public swimming pool’ and ‘the beach number #1’. The rainy season 2018 was not kind to the place, plus, the club project on the 6th year of its life circle got sort[…]
This ironic series of t-shirts called Лучшая.] / Da BEST / is made in collaboration with the Moscow-based fashion and jewelry designer Irina Ilyaeva and her Fineartshop.ru. It is dedicated to the popular female memes or, to be precise, the widespread misconceptions and illusions regarding gender relationships that prevent women from seeing the reality. A man[…]
PLAN B 2017. FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL INNOVATIONS AND NEW MUSIC As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. / Joseph Campbell This year we started uplifting the project with a tiny update of the brand ID. Albeit we really love the work[…]
PLAN B Festival of Social Innovations and New Music The main, pretty obvious, idea behind this name is the idea of unkillable optimism: whatever happens, do not give up. For there is always a solution for every problem, there’s always an exit, a perspective from which the glass is always half full, there is always[…]
The true story behind these 3 brand ID videos is: we didn’t have a web site (was under construction), we didn’t have time, but we had a FB page and a 3D-model of our brand stone partly done — so we decided not to wait and use it for building expectations and escalating the intrigue.The communicative mission of the[…]
‘New York City officially passes bill to create a nightlife office. There will also be a ‘nightlife director,’ whose position is similar to the ‘night czar’ or ‘night mayor’ position in other cities. Their main goal is to advocate for the city’s nightlife by serving as a point of contact between the city and those[…]
It’s known that crowdsourcing is not necessarily a feature of low budget projects, but one of the greatest marketing tools and truly a ‘creative communication’ — creative on both sides, a project’s and the audience’s. For a music and art festival like the Kazantip Republic it’s, in a way, a must have. For it allows[…]
How we won Ibiza Between 24-29th May 2011 Ibiza hosted the 4th International Music Summit where the Republic was taking part as a speaker. KAZANTIP IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK was the subject of our talk, because, first off, we meant to explain plainly that Kazantip is not a festival. During the performance the reps of[…]
‘Like anyone else I hear the inner voice. Sometimes two.’ ‘Sometimes2’, the series of meditative and thoughtful micro-videos from Nikola Frantzevich Film Studio, got its name from a humorous sentence belonging to the President — ‘Like anyone else I hear the inner voice. Sometimes two.’ Created in a genre of art-documentary, these shorts reflect our[…]
Logo Stickers Viza, a plastic multi-pass Kazantip 2010. Mental Asylum The main theme of the season 2010 was a self-ironic idea of our own abnormally. While for its citizens Kazantip Republic was a perfect alternative realm with fair and kind rules, for the rest of the world it seemed to be a grand illusion or even ‘delusion’,[…]
The Kazantip Republic through the eyes of normal people When it comes to what other, relatively more normal people think of our imaginary world, it’s a big international annual club culture festival held in summer at the Black Sea coast of Crimea, Ukraine (Russia’s neighboring, ex-USSR country). It starts in late July and ends in[…]
What is Kazantip? Huh, as if we know the answer! We’ve been groping for it since 1992 and it’s still somewhere out there. We hope, you too couldn’t satisfy the most important question of your life ‘Who am I?’ in a few words. And we don’t mean your name or occupation. What we know for a[…]
Brand legend and a concept of the debut album Electronic duo KOOQLA was born as a collaboration of two mature musicians — Nata Zhizhcnenko (Tomato Jaws, ONUKA , UA) and Artem Harchenko (R-Tem, TYOMA, RU), and they also had an intention to collaborate with a famous Russian puppet artist Polina Voloshina known by her iconic and unusual mooqla’ dolls. The task was to create[…]
The story was created to present the new track Kooqla—Mute and prepare the audience for the vocalist Nata Zhizhchenko‘s leaving and the change of the project’s voice. While Nata announced her departure and Kooqla announced the casting for a new vocalist, Mute was supposed to be released in an instrumental version and become a silent[…]
The Fruit Of Imagination. The concept of the 2d album Longtime collaboration with the Russian DJ and producer Artem Harchenko (known as R-Tem and TYOMA) continued in the concept for the 2d album of his vocal electronic project Kooqla – FRUIT. The album got its name after the eponymous single, but the fruit topic was developed; for the[…]
The concept of Fast Married made up back in 2003 was the development of the concept of the Kazantip Republic — if there’s a state and a constitution, there is also an institute of love and marriage that is meant to be regulated somehow. Since the Kazantip Republic was a realized utopia, an imaginary land striving for more beautiful[…]