Contemporary digital media requires a new visual language that would expand the appeal of cultural production beyond the device and into the broader realm of media ecology. Having done a variety of work for a number of international clients and with a career path that led him though world’s cultural capitals like Moscow, Dubai, Istanbul and London, Zhenia is now looking for new opportunities that will allow to develop a unique approach to address the global audience. While recognizing the present-day requirement for mobile, tablet and desktop-ready designs, he sees the current state of media as a fluid state of becoming.
Having gained a unique skillset throughout his experience with book and magazine publishing, Zhenia has turned his attention to digital media in 2009 and has been working as a data visualisation designer ever since. He approaches critically both citizen journalism, - the potentiality of user-generated content for breaking the mass media’s long-established monopoly on representation of reality, - as well as capital-driven corporate statistics. Instead, he proposes to employ data to create narratives that are comprehensible, compelling and relevant within today's porous and multi-faceted medial discourse.
Zhenia’s sees his potential employment as an important point of connection between his multiple skills as a journalist, designer and researcher. His aims are therefore to learn, explore and champion an emotional, deeply personal, while at the same time tacitly political way of thinking and telling stories through and with cutting edge technology.
Work history
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Information DesignerGraphic, Kantar Group
Full Time
While employed at Graphic, a London-based specialist data visualisation agency, Zhenia continued pursuing his data visualisation ambition sparked at The Guardian. He proceeded with developing his bespoke style of employing data for storytelling and produced a variety of infographic work, including mobile first and desktop interactive applications, informational social media content, illustration and iconography for clients like TNS, Adobe, London First, Colgate, Unilever, gov.uk and Royal Society of Chemists among others.
Data visualisation designer/illustratorContently
- United StatesFreelance
While living and working in London Zhenia did freelance data visualisation work for Contently, a New York-based agency specialized in contemporary storytelling for international brands. While working with them, he has delivered mobile, desktop and print static infographics for clients like IBM Watson, NBC Universal, BBH and BBVA.
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Skills
- Adobe Acrobat
- Abobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Indesign
- Iconography
- Digital Illustration
- Project Management
- Adobe After Effects
- Basic Html
- Wireframing
Education
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MA Art Praxisdutch art institute
- Arnhem, Netherlands
This two-year low-residency and research-based MA program has provided the space for reflection and production that has taken Zhenia’s visual storytelling work into a new and yet to be explored directions, such as theoretical writing, video work and performativity. Time spent in the Netherlands allowed him to focus on a more instructed approach to projects and was indispensable for initiating his personal research around the involvement of the individual within the context of digital networked media that Zhenia now carries across into his professional design practice.
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MA Communication Design (with Commendation)Kingston University
- London, United Kingdom
During his time at Kingston, Zhenia has acquired hands-on skills on illustrative and creative writing techniques. While the course itself was more focused around some more traditional trajectories like illustrations for children's books, graphic novels and editorial content, the program has helped him shape up the approach to storytelling for different audiences and develop methodology for successfully carrying the messages across the multitude of contemporary media.
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Awards
Information is BeautifulKantar
Short listed for an internation London-based prize for information designInformation is BeautifulKantar
Silver Award winner at an internation London-based prize for information design