Happy Birthday Greeting card

Happy Birthday – Retro

I designed this greeting card for my friend’s 50th birthday. I didn’t want to mention her age so instead of writing ‘Happy 50th Birthday’, I made the card in the style of 60’s. Besides, she is a horse lover, so I implemented the horse and the word ‘hippo’ instead of ‘happy’. ‘Hippo’ – is also a …

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Invitation

This was one of my InDesign assignments: to create an invitation using various effects. I decided to go for a business invitation for an IT company.

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Admail Card

This was my assignment to create a direct mail postcard for a newly opened veterinary clinic.    

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CD Cover

Another version for my ‘CD-Cover Assignment’ – to design a CD cover based on a music composition. For this one I chose ‘Hit the Road Jack’ composition by Ray Charles. I tried to convey an energetic mood through very bright and vivid colours standing out very well on black background, and the atmosphere of the …

CD Cover

CD Cover Assignment

‘CD-Cover Assignment’: to design a CD cover based on a music composition. I chose ‘Hypnotised’ composition by Simple Minds. Feeling this music being ‘flowing’ and ‘chatoyant’ I expressed it in my design with subtle vibrant colours.        

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Newspaper Ad Assignment

One of my assignments: to create a print ad for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada that will run in The Globe and Mail.      

Community Centre Brochure

– Designed as one of the assignments during my Graphic Design – Software Applications Program with Conestoga College

Maplewood logo

Three versions of a logo developed for ‘Maplewood Landscape Design’ – this was my assignment in Advanced Design Principles.            

Menu

My last assignment on InDesign Basics – Restaurant Menu.  

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Caterpillar (1,2Mb)

Here my son was my customer and I created this animation according to his interpretation of the popular ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ book by Eric Carle.                

CD Cover

  This was my assignment on Thematic Reference: create three versions of a CD cover where each version should feature a band’s name and an image that reflects the name of the band.      

Mailer

This was my assignment on Compositional Flow (Advanced Design Principles): three versions of a resort mailer with different layouts but the same pictures.      

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Newspaper Ad Assignment

This was my assignment on Repetition (Advanced Design Principles): three different versions of an ad using repetition of an object.        

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Flamenco Show

This was my assignment on Visual Echo (Advanced Design Principles): three different versions of a poster for a music event.            

Area Rug Contest

The article in ‘Kvartirny Otvet’ magazine

 

The article in 'Kvartirny Otvet' magazine regarding 'Design Your Own Area Rug' contest resultsIn 2005 I participated in Area Rug Contest held by Russian magazine “Kvartirny Otvet” and won the 1st prize. I received an area rug made by my design. This is the article in ‘Kvartirny Otvet’ magazine regarding ‘Design Your Own Area Rug’ contest results:

Homeland Defender's Day and International Women's Day greetings

About VTG project

From March 2010 to September 2014 I participated in VTG project as a Graphic Editor, Website Designer and Technical Support. Currently I am only a Website Designer and Technical Support in this project. Russian speaking community newspaper VTG was established in May 2008. Originally it went by the title KW Gazeta, in August 2009 it …

Other designs

  I created over 100 designs of the area rug. Below are some other designs I sent to the contest:              

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VTG Ads

These are samples of newspaper ads I created for VTG project (Russian community newspaper VTG – Vestnik Trekh Gorodov).