Artem Starchenko, Design & Illustrations

About

I am an experienced, creative and hard-working multidisciplinary graphic designer (and illustrator) with over 10 years of experience in different design fields.

Experience

Freelance

Jan 2011 – Present

Worldwide

Graphic designer / illustrator

Actively worked with a wide range of clients in Russia and other countries - Designed over 100 logos / corporate identity / brand books for different companies, in different areas of business - Developed packaging and accompanying design materials for a cosmetics line, for the USA company “Coastal scents” - Developed packaging design and related design materials for the STM food holding (Moscow), and for more than 4 years I have been creating packaging for new products and updating old packaging - In 2014, I single-handedly worked on a major project to prepare the city for the Fan Festival (FIFA World Cup) - more than 200 layouts in two weeks, including outdoor advertising, fan zones, printing products, online advertising and souvenirs. - Developed a design for the website of the city government, and for the website of the city council. - Designed for more than 40 websites. Also worked on unique illustrations and icon sets Long-term freelance contracts: - Packaging designer STM (food supplier company 2017-2020) - Sales growth from 7% to 15% (for various products), after the introduction of new packaging - DK Brand Studio (design studio 2018-2019) - Brand's designer (Cafe Nosorog 2014-2017) - Brand's designer (Restaurant “Asgard” 2013-2015)

SK-Nexus

Mar 2009 – Jun 2021

Volgograd, Russia

Brand manager / graphic designer

SK-Nexus is a trading company, which represents the group of manufacturing, and logistics partner companies. The main product is oil and gas field equipment. - Developed and maintained corporate identity for the main company and for partner companies - Initiated the development of a corporate website. Invented and supervised the implementation of the customer support system, using QR codes, for quick client access to the technical documentation for the equipment, which has an extremely positive response from customers - Provided the company with up-to-date product presentations. Initiated and supervised the company's participation in thematic exhibitions, events and open tenders

Crasava Pro,

Jan 2012 – Oct 2013

Volgograd, Russia

Leading graphic designer

One of the largest advertising companies in the city, with its own printing production. - First of all, I was hired to create a new direction for the company - the development of brand books along with corporate websites (before that the main emphasis was on outdoor advertising and printing products) - which I successfully coped with in less than a year - Trained and prepared for independent work two brand new designers practically from scratch. - I worked with difficult clients and helped managers master the minimum technical design skills to simplify making edits to simple layouts (decreased the time spent on transferring a task from department to department by more than 30%)

Education

Volgograd State Technical University

Sep 2010 – Jun 2011

Master Degree in Marketing and Advertising, Marketing and Advertising

Volgograd State Technical University

Sep 2006 – Jun 2010

Bachelor of management, Advertising and the global economy

Art-school

Feb 2008 – Nov 2009

night school - some courses, Art, graphic

Artem Starchenko

Design & Illustrations

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