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[…]
The task was creating a key visual for Jagermeister annual event — Jager Music Awards. The image had to communicate the idea of a new world we had found ourselves in in 2020, which affected the music stage greatly — there were much less projects released this year, but they took much more efforts &[…]
The task was to create viral messages for merchandise timed to the annual M1 TV‘s event — M1 Music Awards. Prints were designed by M1 Agency. ‘It’s Five!’ t-shirt plays with the event’s motto ‘Five!’ that stands for the 5th ceremony, and also with a slang phrase originating from the highest grade in the Ukrainian/Russian[…]
The task was to develop a moniker for a Russian rap artist (whom we are not calling by his real name due to the communications strategy we ourselves have developed.) It’s a solo rap project, the debut EP’s key themes are muddy waters of the shady business and favorite human vices — vanity, the thirst for[…]
Silver Stem is the American, Colorado based company, known by its soil grown, hand-crafted, best quality marijuana and cannabis products. The task was to develop a line of merch (t-shirts, hoodies, bags, cups, etc.) that would be fashionable, catchy, funny, playing with the topic—not in the hippie-ish, but rather hipster-ish, more universal style. Options based on the[…]
Here they are, our Da Best series of t-shirts customized exclusively for Lenovo Ukraine, being a gift for the company’s favorite female partners and friends on The International Women Day. These speaking t-shirts were created for brilliant, successful, clever, sharp and sophisticated business, IT, PR and marketing ladies. Playing with some professional and personal traits, they were[…]
Once upon a time we got invited to participate in a tender as an event organizers. This was the big IT company developing different types of software, with offices all around the world and thousands employees — LUXOFT. Way too big corporation for the wild small us, but we were tempted to try (and we have a[…]
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[…]
The task was creating a brand name and а brand ID for an educational platform for startups where founders and high level managers can learn marketing (and other necessary skills – in the phase II); go through a bootcamp and develop their strategy, as well as find people able execute it. Markets: USA, Worldwide. Key notions: Community[…]
The WP-based site for our friends and allies, the creative duo Freak Fabrique. The task was to create a minimalistic and convenient portfolio for the design studio with the wide range of specializations: architecture, design, land-art, venue planning, stage construction, event decoration, art installations, recycling, etc. There were a few specifics: the mix of compact[…]
The Cruising — Wise and Weird EP Whiskey Pickle Records (Austin, USA) Небольшая предыстория продюсерского дуэта, работающего под именем The Cruising, для тех, “кто только что присоединился к нашему эфиру”. Повстречались как-то матерый выходец из мрачного петербургского техно-андеграунда Сергей Демидов (dj Demidov) и любительница олдскульного жизнерадостного диско-фанка, крымчанка Юля Вовк (dj Yula). Влюбились, поженились, родили дочь, непонятно[…]
This cute amusing monster is being an ‘official face’ of a Norwegian startup company Chooose AS, a daring climate guerrilla on a mission. Using official UN programs, the guys disrupt the world market of CO2 emission quotas, fundraising money and then buying out the CO2 permits that otherwise would go in hands of big industrial[…]
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[…]
The idea behind Connect Ukraine Festival is to create a playground for creative people, to inspire and motivate them to change the world by giving them tools, skills and resources for that. To showcase the best startups and most successful projects of Ukrainian creative industry and get them connected with the foreign colleagues, experts and[…]
YEN. THINGS THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO TRAVEL You might not know that ‘yen’ is not just the Japanese monetary unit, but also a passionate, ardent, intense longing or desire. A desire for someone who is not present, a strong wanting to do something what promises enjoyment or pleasure. Inclination, yearning, craving — all this, in[…]
FLURANET CREATURES FROM A BRIGHTER REALITY The website for one of the biggest and oldest Ukrainian design lab FluraNet focused on handmade items, paintings, souvenirs, bijouterie and clothes in the psychedelic aesthetic. The task was to create a modernized and more convenient version of the old site that could be at the same time an effective[…]
The Cruising — Dispassion (original mix). Per aspera ad astra The Cruising are weird Russians famous for their unconventional ironic interpretations and stylizations in the fashion of old-school disco and funk. After quite a long hiatus they have produced a quaint, eclectic, seemingly illogical but really beautiful release, Dispassion. It’s rather stylistically undefinable (which is[…]
Олег Азелицкий. Слон, на котором держится сцена Земля, может, и не держится на 3 слонах, стоящих на черепахе, но отечественная электронная сцена определенно держится на десятке-другом легендарных фигур, и Слон — одна из них. Олег Азелицкий известный как dj Слон — действительно, фигура в мире русского техно. Не просто стоящая у пресловутых истоков, но все эти[…]
DJ Marika Rossa. Коробочка с динамитом Помните сцену из Léon: The Professional, в которой коварная Матильда, заклеив жвачкой глазок, стучится в дверь и жалобно умоляет спасти ее от опасных типов? Вот и при виде этой миниатюрной девушки мало кому придет в голову ждать подвоха. А зря. Потому что она вдруг включается на полную мощность и начинает[…]
Московский лейбл Highway Records был основан в 2008 году Майком Спиритом (Mike Spirit) и вот уже 7 лет успешно занимается тем, что строит мост между российской и зарубежной электронными сценами, помогая нашим артистам найти дорогу к иностранной аудитории и наоборот. Конвергенция и коллаборация — вот два ключевых слова, дающих исчерпывающее описание миссии и философии лейбла.[…]
Вот уже почти 3 года московский лейбл с интригующим названием What’s In The Box? (‘Что в коробке?’), как фокусник кролика, извлекает из своей загадочной коробки отличный саунд и интересных артистов. Созданный в своей время как саблейбл Highway Records, What’s In The Box? фокусируется на мелодичном актуальном deep house и nu disco звучании и на продвижении[…]
Ketama Records — российский виниловый и цифровой лейбл, основанный в 2011 году легендарным московском кафе Ketama. Формат лейбла тесно связан с форматом заведения и выпускает музыку от лучших российских и зарубежных продюсеров, работающих в таких жанрах как downtempo, chillout, leftfield и ambient. На протяжении целого десятилетия кафе Ketama было штабквартирой downtempo культуры в России —[…]
DJ Fleyta. Двойная жизнь Вероники Если вы увидите в афишах или услышите от знакомых имя Dj Veronika Fleyta, не спешите думать, что это очередной вычурный псевдоним очередной претенциозной девушки-диджея. История, приведшая Веронику Флейту к профессиональному диджеингу, — совершенно не претенциозна, проста, но по-своему удивительна. Одна из тысяч красивых москвичек, Вероника сделала неплохую модельную карьеру и[…]
The Cruising — Turn Day On Music pieces by The Cruising duo are not that easy to identify, both style- and time-wise. Funky vibes of the 1970s and 1980s are generously mixed with techno sound and peppered with unconventional live instruments, vocals and flirting with rock. Throw in ambitions of new genre creators, and you[…]
LOVE AT FIRST TOUCH TOUCH is conceived as an international interdisciplinary project with wide genre range (music, dance, cinema, video-art, fashion, performance art, etc) mixed with social activism and socially meaningful actions. We probably wouldn’t mind to arrange something as ambitious as a ‘cultural revolution’, but what we don’t really like about this notion is radicality[…]
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[…]
Dancing On The Cutting Edge When we were creating the concept for GEM Fest, we wanted to embellish it with as many different meanings and connotations as possible, just as the rather long-winded full title of the Georgian Electronic Music Festival contains the word ‘gem’ in its name: a precious stone, hidden away in an[…]
The Dancing Heart of Kiev The annual summer electronic music festival OSTROV is being held in the city centre of Kiev (Ukraine), at the Trukhanov Ostrov (‘island’ in Ukrainian) in the Dnepr river. The 2d OSTROV 2014 had been preparing in a pretty difficult context — Crimea’s annexation, the civic war at Donbass, the deep[…]
The twentieth, jubilee season of The Kazantip Republic was marked by a documentary series titled ’20 Years Of Our Era’, which became a tagline of the project. It was also embodied in the opening credits of all the short movies produced that year, in the brand ID and the main stage’s decoration. Viza, a personal plastic multi[…]
‘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[…]
II Summit On Mars was a 3-day conference dedicated to festival events, advanced marketing and social technologies. It was taking place at the territory of Kazantip traditionally called Mars, with the participation of international speakers well known in the industry—owners of music festivals, awards, publishing labels; representatives of major companies and media. Logo Merchandising Press[…]
Live On Mars was a subproject of The Kazantip Republic — a festival of live music within an electronic festival, a 4-5 night program taking place at a special live stage. During several years it had not just been giving the young talented bands from Russia and Ukraine a powerful boost, but also introducing to[…]
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 Presents Nikola Frantzevich Movie Studio The Кazantipian Movie Studio n.a. Nikola Frantsevich was founded in 2010 as the embodiment of long-lasting cinematographic ambitions of the Republic. Not that the Republic had longed to become a new Bollywood, but it would have been silly and thriftless not to use the richness of nature and[…]
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[…]