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OLEH HOLOVCHENKOGraphic Design. Illustration. Crazy Ideas

email mr.gipsy@gmail.com

site heloholo.com

phone +7.926.605.97.38

experience

education

November 2008 – Now Freelance graphic designer, illustrator Corporate identity, brochure and web design, illustrations for DolphinStrategy and Junior Co.

May 2007 – November 2008 Graphic designer at ArtArea Brand Communications agency Corporate and event identity, brochure, annual report design.

October 2006 – May 2007 Freelance graphic designer, illustrator Corporate identity, brochure design, illustrations for Rich Strategy, Global Management Challenge Ukraine, Compass Development, Indigo People.

June 2005 – October 2006 Participation in Internship USA program

December 2004 – June 2005 Project manager and graphic designer for Rich Strategy Project management. Design of print materials for events.

June 2004 – October 2004 Participation in Work and Travel USA program

October 2003 – December 2004 Assistant of Chief Brand Manager of kmbs [Kyiv Mohyla Business School]. In-house graphic designer. Project management, manage relations with printing houses and designers.

To gain employment as a graphic designer in a fun, creative, and inspiring environment where I am able to offer effective visual communications and client solutions.

January 2007 – July 2008 CPD course of Graphic Design at British Higher School of Arts and Design, Moscow, Russia.

September 2001– July 2005 Bachelor of Economics at National University of “Kyiv Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine.

CV p1

OLEH HOLOVCHENKO

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skills Layout and page composition, corporate identity and supporting collateral, marketing materials, posters, brochures, and flyers, informational design, pre-press.

Different illustration techniques (pencil, ballpoint pen, ink, acrylic, watercolor, computer graphic pad).

Software: Graphic design software (PC/MAC): Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, CorelDraw, Corel Painter. Some Flash, Dreamweaver. CSS, HTML, Basic Website Development. Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

Basic knowledge in Marketing & Advertising. Market research and analysis.

Sales, communication and presentation skills.

Languages: Ukrainian, Russian – native, English – fluent, Spanish – basic, Chinese – basic.

Goal-oriented, sociable, positive thinker, analytical brain, motivated to learn and advance professional skills, self-motivated. Passionate and inventive creator of innovative design solutions; accustomed to performing in a deadline-driven environment.

personal qualities

Max Nesterenko — Course Leader CPD GD&I at British Higher School of Arts and Design +7.495.242.47.89 max_nest@comtv.ru

Anastasiya Nanayeva — DolphinStrategy, communication director +380.67.502.71.35 anastasiya@nanayeva.com

Anna Degtereva — GMC Ukraine, CEO +380.67.231.12.41 anna@challenge.in.ua

Katerina Kassil — ArtArea Brand Communications, creative director +7.916.141.57.97 kkassil@mail.ru

Richard Tikiob — real estate agent in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware +1.302.745.29.56 richrealestate@comcast.net

refferences

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Identity p5-p20

Brochure p21-p32

Miscellaneous p33-p42

Typography p43-p46

Illustration p47-p62

Identity p5

The name of a festival was created to emphasize the essence of puppetry as art. Custom lettering expresses uniqueness of every puppet and gives handmade feel. Strings flex freely and change color on every layout giving lively mood to design and flexibility of usage.

PUPPET FESTIVAL VISUAL IDENTITY(STUDY PROJECT)

description

Design identity system for puppet theater festival showing innovative and free minded spirit of event.

project

Stationery pack-age includes let-terhead, folder, envelope and business card. Different pup-pet characters personalize busi-ness cards.

The pack of puppet characters were created for use on posters, stationery and other promotional materials.

Identity p7

The series of show posters were created in 2-color silk-screen technique with accent on custom lettering, rough texture and bold images.

Show tickets are based on poster designs.

Poster to promote the event and list of participants.

Identity p11

project

description We decided to avoid direct image of dolphin and stereotypical "ocean" colors, but to create a simple sign with "dolphin" feel that express dy-namics and openness to new opportunities.

Design a logotype and identity materials for bright and innovative investment company.

DOLPHIN STRATEGY CORPORATE IDENTITY

Slogan of DolphinStrategy is "Ideas that power investment". The company use Spices as metaphorical illustration of this idea. For that reason photographs of different kinds of spices are used on stationery and collateral.

Stationery pack-age of letter-head, envelope, folder, business cards.

Notebook cover with variety of spices as idea toolbox of the company.

Identity p13

project

Such wide variety of company interests required simple and universal logo. Not only "i" but other letters also obtained dots to get resemblance with pictographic image of man. New letters were created. This weird idea was chosen to express funky and innovative image of Indigo People.

description

Design logotype for dynamic company that work on innovative projects in different spheres of business, from business education to fashion.

INDIGO PEOPLE LOGO AND STATIONERY

Letterhead, envelope and business cads were developed.

Every team member got their own letter and philosopher quote on a back of business card.

Identity p15

project

description Logotype represents Compass Development as a serious, reliable partner, company that looks to the future. Extensive package of stationery was developed during this project and described in identity guidelines.

Design logotype and stationery for development company.

COMPASS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATE IDENTITY

Few pages from identity manual.

Identity p17

project

description Junior is mother-brand that unite few educational and informational projects for young people. The assignment was to design a logo that can exist both independently and as a part of project logo-types. The solution is neutral but special logo.

Design logotype and stationary for youth educa-tion company.

JUNIOR CORPORATE IDENTITY

Corporate style continue simple minimalist direction of logo. Main fea-tures are bright vivid colors and teasing slogans that express ambitious and energetic attitude of students.

Website is minimalist, bright and direct like other identity materials of the company.

Letterhead, envelope, business card, pins.

Identity p19

project

description pi means profiles international. It is an inter-nationally certified test for career orientation. pi junior is a project of Junior Co. The idea behind this logo is fingerprint which is one of symbols of person's identity. It was simplified to pure geometric shape and tilted to get dynamics and emotionality.

Create a logotype for career orientation project for students.

LOGO AND IDEAS FOR PI JUNIOR

Bright stickers with teasing phrases marked the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Advertisement idea. "Your place among great finger-prints"

project

description Rich Strategy organize master classes of famous business speakers in Ukraine. These booklets were designed as promotional materials for these events.

Create booklets for business education gigs.

BOOKLETS FOR RICH STRATEGY

Brochure p21

description

Design illustrated brochures for business compe-tition project.

GMC states for Global Management Challenge. This is an international competition of manage-ment teams. The client needed funny and clear brochures. You may see fruits of two years coop-eration.

project

2007 2008

Brochure p23

GMC UKRAINE BROCHURES

project

description The slogan of SCM is Moving Forward Together. We decided to express this with dynamic lines that goes through entire report connecting all numer-ous businesses of the group. These lines some-times transform to infographics and emphasize motion on photographs. This project has been performed by ArtArea Brand Communication. Art director: Katerina Kassil.

Design annual report for big financial industrial group.

Brochure p25

ANNUAL REPORT 2007 FOR SCM

project

description Foundation for Development of Ukraine finance and organize numerous educational, cultural and healthcare programs. They deal with people lives. We expressed this humanity by making this report look like a diary written by people who re-ceived support. This project has been performed by ArtArea Brand Communication. Art director: Alexey Zinoviev.

Create annual report for charity fund.

ANNUAL REPORT 2006 FOR FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE

Brochure p27

project

description CFC Consulting is Ukrainian PR agency that participated in organization of Eurovision 2005 commissioned me to develop a case study in funky style with a bias to company identity.

Design brochure about events organized as a part of Eurovision 2005 in Ukraine.

EUROVISION IN UKRAINE PROJECT REPORT

Brochure p29

project

description pi (Profiles International) junior helps students to find their professional way. The brochure is build on sketchy illustrations and bright colors.

Develop a brochure about career orientation of students.

PI JUNIOR BROCHURE

cover back

Brochure p31

Miscellaneous p33

WOMEN’s DAY CARD FOR RUSSIAN RAILWAYS

NEW YEAR CARD FOR POLUS GOLD

NEW YEAR CARDS 2009 (PERSONAL PROJECT)

Miscellaneous p35

description

project

Though rococo most of all associates with France I chose French women names for the chocolate. There were two variants of design and few items in product line. Chocolate logotypes base on ex-isting font but customized and reworked.

Design chocolate packaging in rococo style. Imi-tate woodcut technology of illustration.

CHOCOLATE PACKAGING(STUDY PROJECT)

Miscellaneous p37

This are imitation of woodcut tech-nique traditional in food packaging.

CD SLEEVES (STUDY PROJECT)

Miscellaneous p39

Miscellaneous p41

description

description

San serif fond where all letters made of number glyphs. Base font for Numberfreak Sans is FF Din.

Serif fond where all letters made of number glyphs. Numberfreak Serif is based on Garamond.

NUMBERFREAK SANS

NUMBERFREAK SERIF

Typography p43

BLACK NEON

BRICKS’n’LACES

description

description

Geometric sans serif font with ultra high contrast between vertical and horizontal stokes. Alternative glyphs for every letter make it possible to play with rhythm and create jazzy typographic compositions.

I've got the idea for this font when divided all letters into circles and squares. Then I designed actual types with minimum of lines and high contrast with base shape. It better tastes multicolored.

Typography p45

Series of business illustration for two brochures for Global Management Challenge Ukraine.

description

ILLUSTRATIONS FOR GMC BROCHURES

Illustration p47

WORLD OF THREEMEN (PERSONAL PROJECT)

Illustration p49

Series of pictures about three anthropomorphic creatures, nature and everything. More images at 3menworld.com

description

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (STUDY PROJECT)

Series of illustrations to Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll. I want-ed to make this pictures quite minimalistic and stress unusual compositions and characters.

description

Illustration p51

Illustration p53

DIFFERENT ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustration p55

Illustration to Greek myth about Theseus and Minotaurus. Styliza-tion to Ralph Steadman.

Stylization to Roy Lichtenstein

Linocut prints

Illustration p57

Stylization to Hanoch Piven illustration. Portrait of Dmitriy Medvedev.

Portrait of David Bowie.

INK’n’WATERCOLOR

Illustration p59

Illustration p61

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