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[…]
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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[…]
The task was to develop a responsive bilingual website that would communicate the project’s essence and contain all the necessary tools for an awards — such as nominating forms, short and long lists, the jury, nominees and winners presentation, eligibilities and information about the stakeholders. Main Page http://icebreakersawards.com About http://icebreakersawards.com/avout-us Categories http://icebreakersawards.com/categories Jury http://icebreakersawards.com/jury Animated sliders with the[…]
The task was to develop branding, visual communications and a website for The Icebreakers Awards. “The Icebreakers Awards is the first civic engagement and human rights activism prize that focuses principally on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It aims to honour people and organizations that have made an outstanding contribution to civic activism,[…]
Third year in a row we were responsible for Luxoft Ukraine New Year event — this time, due to the quarantine, it was supposed to happen in the online format on December 23, 2020. The challenges we faced were: a very modest budget and only 3 weeks for preparation. The client requested something warm and[…]
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 &[…]
Developing a visual ID for another Kyiv Music Day 2020 music conference, we strived to find an image that would characterize this multi-format, hybrid event that combines most diverse aspects of the industry — media, sponsorship, celebrity marketing, production, ect. — touching on both deep and superficial levels, criticizing negative trends and proudly showcasing achievements[…]
This was our second collaboration with Luxoft Ukraine — after the pretty successful experience with a music festival in 2019, having revealed the potential of party animals in humble software developers, the company requested a space-themed corporate party for about 2000 guests. We offered the concept based on the most inspiring, daring and breathtaking story[…]
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[…]
Kyiv Music Days is an industry conference taking place twice a year, and this time—in the frame of Ukrainian Music Fair 2019. It is dedicated to showbiz, artist promotion, event production, concert technologies, marketing and all that jazz; and its 3d autumn edition in partnership with L-Acoustics went under the title ‘Autumn Sound’. Our task was[…]
Rebranding for Ukrainian Music Fair, the main and one of the oldest industry events (25 years old, no joke), promised lots of challenges and tough negotiations — for the old style was, uhm, really old-fashioned. Unexpectedly and fortunately, the process turned out to be pretty smooth and some really bold (as for this institution) solutions[…]
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[…]
GLOBAL INNOVATION CATALYST (USA) Global Innovation Catalyst aka GIC is a California based advisory services company with the mission of supporting the development and creation of innovation ecosystems around the world. The company has a few departments focusing on different kinds of activities, such as: events (GIC Summit), educational programmes developed in partnership with Stanford’s Center For[…]
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[…]
The task was to create brand IDs for two projects of the same owner: the Saint Petersburg based seafood bistro named GREBESHKI (‘scallops’ in Russian); and the next door art space SNEZHKI (‘snowballs’ in Russian) meant to be a multifunctional event hall. As you may see, there is no straight connection between these two notions —[…]
Hitomi Shop, a Ukrainian online store of Asian care cosmetics, decided to celebrate its 6th anniversary and entering the European market with rebranding. Hitomi is made by and for beauty geeks, it’s all about scientific approach, love to chemistry and meticulous selection of products. Its ideology is ‘skin is just skin, the country of manufactoring is[…]
The site’s redesign for the Norwegian educational project Young Happy Minds, dedicated to the Positive Psychology and its application in personal development of the youth and kids yonghappyminds.no
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[…]
nobs-summit.com — website design for the tech conference NO BS Summit.
Website design for the educational platform Startuppie.com for startup founders. The site is based on the most popular WordPress template for online-courses, so the task was to customize it as much as possible, having added the brand ID elements throughout it.
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[…]
SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT TECH An international tech summit known as BSS (Black Sea Summit) requested a new visual and communication concept to return with after a year hiatus. The summit is changing a format and marketing goals, becoming more global and not attached to the Black Sea Region as it’s been before. The client wanted[…]
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[…]
Web site for PLAN B festival The motto of PLAN B festival 2017 was Turn Falling Into Flying, which meant to reflect the challenging situation when a ‘plan A’ fails and one must create a ‘plan B’; an instance of failure and discouragement that—not easily, but with an extra effort and creativity—can be turned into a moment[…]
Design for the web site connect-ukraine.com (*developed by KeenEthics) All the project’s visual production is based on the images of neural maps of а brain meant to support the key notion of the project through the chain of associations: creativity as brain activity, studying as forming new neural connections. The title picture of the web-site is[…]
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[…]
TURN FALLING INTO DANCING The motto of PLAN B 2017 ‘Turn Falling Into Flying’ reflects the challenging situation when a ‘plan A’ fails and one must create a ‘plan B’; an instance of failure and discouragement that—not easily, but with an extra effort and creativity—can be turned into a moment of triumph. This video was meant[…]
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 concept was conceived, incubated and born in record time—in 5 minutes or less, while staring at the opened GoDaddy page with the firm intention to buy a domain name for a prospective creative agency, immediately. This time we were our own clients, so it wasn’t time for demureness—in order to find a proper name[…]
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[…]