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Here's my CV.
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Contacts
katerina.kochkina@gmail.com
Nationality – Russian
Age – 27
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Education
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Moscow State University of Lomonosov, journalism department, 2004–2009.
Special subjects on editorial and type design.
Theme of degree paper “Creating type for a magazine”; consisted of two parts.
1. Theoretical: the special requirements for typeface for a magazine.
2. Practical: creation of type that would meet these requirements (multilingual sans serif typeface family that consists of 11 fonts).
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Additional Education
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Media Arts Club in Tretyakov State Gallery on Krymsky Val, 2007.
Lectures on history of videoart by Antonio Geusa, curator and recognized authority on contemporary video art in Russia, PhD Media Arts in University of London, 2010–2012.
Lectures on art theory by Stanislav Shuripa, artist, curator and art theorist, “Artists in residence” grant holder, 2010–2011.
Intensive winter course in Interactive Design and New Media in The British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow); January 12 – 20, 2012.
ISIA Urbino / Werkplaats Typografie Summer School, July 15 – 26, 2013.
The Dutch Visitors Programme for high potentials, December 1 – 12, 2013.
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Work experience
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2003 – November 2009
Reporter for a local youth newspaper “Our guys”, 2003.
Journalist covering music albums’ releases for online radio website
weborama.ru, 2008.
Journalist covering new Cyrillic font releases and design events, 2007–2012.
Illustrator for magazines “Flexography” (magazine on special printing), “Publish” (magazine on design and printing), “Exclusive” (students’ magazine, issued by students of Moscow State University of Lomonosov, journalism department);
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November 2009 – current time
Graphic designer at DesignDepot, www.designdepot.ru.
Art Director since April 2012.
DesignDepot is a graphic design & visual communications agency with a team of 40+ people,
16 years of experience and more than 70 awards.
It has very diverse list of clients, among them Pfizer, Evraz, UniCreditBank, Russian Government, etc.
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July 2012 – current time
Art Director at [kAk) magazine.
[kAk), magazine about graphic design, — is the only illustrated periodical issue devoted to professional graphic design in Russia. It was founded by the DesignDepo studio in 1996 and is published in 3 000 editions quarterly, every issue ranging from 112 to 184 pages.
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Exhibitions
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“Spam-Art: Spam or art, art or spam” — exhibition of Media Arts Club students; Tretyakov State Gallery on Krymsky Val, 2007;
“Workshop 2007: Space” - annual exhibition of young artists in Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2007;
“Free Wi-Fi: Internet as Visual Impact Industry” - 3rd Annual Illustration Festival; Zurab Tsereteli Gallery of Arts, 2009;
Cyberfest 2009, project Pelicila (together with Innocent Sharkov, Aleksandr Tarbeev, Daria Chapkovskaya);
PROEKT_FABRIKA, project Pelicula (as a member of Modus Group), 2010;
The Kandinsky Prize (the biggest independent national Russian award in contemporary art) - nominated for art project of the year for Project Pelicula
(as a member of Modus Group), 2010.
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Workshops with students (Lettering and Calligraphy)
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Teaching assistance in Intensive summer course on Lettering and Calligraphy in The British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow, Russia),
July 26 –August 3, 2011; July 9–17, 2012, July 26 –August 3, 2013.
Teacher in Type and Typography course in The British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow, Russia), September 2012 – present.
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Speaker
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International student, postgraduate and young scientist conference “Lomonosov”. Theme of presentation “Graphic design, mass media and programming”, April 2008.
Moscow International Book Fair. Theme of presentation “Type and Russian book market, problems and essentials”, September 2011.
International Tourist Forum Yaroslavl. Theme of presentation “History of Sakhalin Region branding project”, October 2011.
Conference Serebro Nabora. Theme of presentation “[kAk) magazine, redesign”, November 2012.
Expert RA Group of Rating Agencies, 10th Annual Conference “Annual Reports: leaders’ experience and new standarts”. Theme of presentation “Annual Reports: current trends”, November 2013.
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Dutch Visitors Programme
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In 2013 I was selected by the Dutch Embassy for the Dutch Visitors Programme, theme: creative industry.
The Dutch Visitors Programme (DVP) for high potentials is a programme by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and NL Agency. The programme is set up as a way of contributing to a better understanding of the Netherlands through the exchange of professional and personal experiences between participants and their Dutch colleagues. Moreover, the Dutch Visitors Programme should be used by the embassies as a tool for expanding and maintaining their network.
The Dutch Visitors Programme organises a ten day study visit to the Netherlands. The Dutch Visitors Programme is (for the time being) specially designed for young professionals from emerging countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Egypt, the Gulf States (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman), Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea and South Africa.
The programme was held December 1–12, 2013. I was one of the eight participants, representing Russian Federation.
Other participants were:
Ling Fan (China), architect, spatial artist and design entrepreneur;
Joana Stallivieri Neves (Brazil), Coordinator of Creative Economy at the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Culture;
Stefen Chow (Malaysia) is a photography contest Prize winner, most importantly winner of World Press Photo, with a human rights related portrait of Ai Wei Wei;
Noor Yamani (Saudi Arabia), business development
co-ordinator in Haydara Business Development;
Cherize Ross (South Africa), project manager at Interactive Africa (they organize the Design Indaba, which plays an important role in the promotion of Dutch Design in Africa);
Khalid Shafar (United Arab Emirates), Furniture & Objects design;
Erdam Dilbaz (Turkey), electronic arts producer and founder and manager of Nerdworking, an international network of ‘nerds’ (www.nerdworking.org) creating new economic models for creative industries and making artists and engineers collaborate on specific projects.
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