— Fiodor Sumkin : CV
18, rue de Berne - 75008 Paris, France
T. + 33 6 98 45 24 89
opera78@gmail.com
Born February 12, 1978
Thanks to my two credos:
— «Don't copy, create yourself, if you want to be in history »
— «I'm always ready to make my clients happy »
and my 14-year experience both in media and publishing and also in advertising and freelance art illustration, I feel comfortable navigating between the art and business world. Today, my art studio Opera78 has achieved world recognition, which allows me to have fun working and developing innovative collaborative projects such as MUKA.
C A R E E R _ H I S T O R Y
In 1996, after 2 years working with PC Corel Draw, I switch to Macintosh, and the Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress suite.
Today I am a strong Mac user, and have 14 years of experience with Professional Design software.
At the beginning of my career, in Belorussia, from 1994 to 1998,
I work as a graphic designer in a small design studio while pursuing my studies with the local School of Fine Arts.
Summer 1998, upon graduating in Graphic design, Multimedia, Painting, and Photography, I join one of the leading multidisciplinary Muscovite advertising agencies, Moscow Print Center where I spend 6 months. My main clients are both Condé Nast publishing - I work on magazines such as Elle and Elle Top Model, and the Independent Media publishing house that issues Men's Health, FHM, and PlayBoy magazines.
M O S C O W, winter 1999 – summer 2001, I freelance with:
Seiko-Epson Russia (web design), Siemens Mobile (print and poster advertising, visuals design for TV adaptation, etc.), Bank of Moscow, YUKOS, Russian Railways, Aeroflot, LUKOIL, Schwarzkopf, L'Oréal (print advertising, corporate identity).
— At the same time, I develop corporate identity styles and guidelines, create logotypes, design annual reports, etc. for dozens of Russian companies.
— Autumn 2001, I am invited to M I L A N to work for Monte-parole, a Russian-Italian publishing house. During one month I provide consultancy on development design concepts for bilingual magazines.
End of October 2001, I move headquarters to P A R I S where I freelance on art illustration projects.
Summer 2003 - summer 2006, in Paris, I am the artistic director of one of the largest, most established Russian weekly magazines. Upon my arrival, I change the visual identity which enables a rapid development of the magazine, which is today distributed in France, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Greece. In 2005, I manage the five people that make up the creative department.
Winter 2005, I take on a new road: commercial illustration. I set up the design studio Opéra78 the main goal of which is to be creative and think different. I offer alternative routes to mainstream and ephemeral trends. I achieve my goals by being highly original and autonomous, from idea inception to final project delivery.
Summer 2006 - fall 2009, I live and freelance in Amsterdam while enhancing my designer image and building reputation with international names such as:
Art Illustration for magazines :
Esquire Magazine (U.S. Edition), New York Times, Die Zeit Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Men’s Health, Playboy, INTERNI and Elsevier Magazines
In collaboration with local advertising agencies:
Nike - Nike Air Jordan, Burton Snowboards, Nidecker Snowboards, Procter & Gamble, Absolut - Absolut Vodka, WWF, Amnesty International, Air Canada - Canadian Airlines, Aeroflot - Russian Airlines
And with international advertising networks:
TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles CA, TBWAChiatDay New York NY, Saatchi & Saatchi Moscow, DDB Amsterdam, Wieden+Kennedy, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), Serial Cut, Contexta AG, Nothing Commercial Creativity, and many others.
Summer 2007, I launch the corporate social responsibility project Ecopera. 80 artists from across the globe gather for a grand exhibition at the Moscow Gallery "Dom".
— As I pay close attention to people’s needs and feelings, over the years I’ve built strong and friendship relationships with a number of employers and clients.
R E C E N T _ W O R K
• Illustration and design of the Nidecker snowboard (Switzerland)
• Image content "Playfull Type by Fiodor Sumkin" for the new fashion collection UNIQLO (Japan)
• Pattern-illustration for the Nike, Air Jordan Brand shoes, bags and T-shirts (USA)
• Creative proposals for an illustration series for PUR Water, Procter & Gamble advertising campaign
• New York Times magazine, Alexander Solzhenitsin cover page illustration.
• Esquire Magazine (U.S. and Russian Edition, Illustration series)
• Collective Exhibition at the San Paulo Contemporary Museum, Brasil
Fall 2009, I come back to Paris where I initiate a new concept tool for graphic design named MUKA.
MUKA is an innovative blogging platform developed specifically with multy-touch screen- controlled devices in mind. Thanks to revolutionary content mamagement approach, MUKA helps to create beautifully layout blog posts, using the tricks previously only available to the users of complex graphic design applications. The project is underway, a beta version is to be released in June.
The project is built around the crowd-sourcing principle, and resembles 45 people worldwide. I am responsible for organizing the process and coordinating the three groups: programmers, graphic designers and copywriters. I am also in charge of the recruitment of new collaborators and the overall visual coherence of the project components.
Book and Catalogue Publications
Beyond publications in newspapers and magazines, tens of interviews in print or online magazines or portals, my art illustration has been published in a considerable number of contemporary graphic design and art illustration books.
Some of the recent art books that published my work are:
• Taschen: The Field Guide for Graphic Designers (late 2011)
• Rockport Publishers: Idea-ology (2010)
• Thames & Hudsun: New Ornamental Type (2010)
• Harper Collins Design: Source Illustration Book (2010)
• Die Gestalten Verlag: Illusive 2 (2008), The Playful Type (2009), The Playful Type 2 (late 2011)
T O O L S
Softwares: Adobe Photoshop, inDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, Apple Aperture, Final Cut Pro.
Operating Systems: PC, Advanced Mac user.
Web: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP - Zend Framework, Flash - ActionScript
Others: Canon 5d MarkII
L A N G U A G E S
Russian – mother tongue
Italian - fluent
English – able to negotiate
French - able to communicate
R E F E R E N C E S
Dave, Everett, Xavier, Michael, Hervé, Suzana, Andrew.
T. + 33 6 98 45 24 89
opera78@gmail.com
Born February 12, 1978
Thanks to my two credos:
— «Don't copy, create yourself, if you want to be in history »
— «I'm always ready to make my clients happy »
and my 14-year experience both in media and publishing and also in advertising and freelance art illustration, I feel comfortable navigating between the art and business world. Today, my art studio Opera78 has achieved world recognition, which allows me to have fun working and developing innovative collaborative projects such as MUKA.
C A R E E R _ H I S T O R Y
In 1996, after 2 years working with PC Corel Draw, I switch to Macintosh, and the Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress suite.
Today I am a strong Mac user, and have 14 years of experience with Professional Design software.
At the beginning of my career, in Belorussia, from 1994 to 1998,
I work as a graphic designer in a small design studio while pursuing my studies with the local School of Fine Arts.
Summer 1998, upon graduating in Graphic design, Multimedia, Painting, and Photography, I join one of the leading multidisciplinary Muscovite advertising agencies, Moscow Print Center where I spend 6 months. My main clients are both Condé Nast publishing - I work on magazines such as Elle and Elle Top Model, and the Independent Media publishing house that issues Men's Health, FHM, and PlayBoy magazines.
M O S C O W, winter 1999 – summer 2001, I freelance with:
Seiko-Epson Russia (web design), Siemens Mobile (print and poster advertising, visuals design for TV adaptation, etc.), Bank of Moscow, YUKOS, Russian Railways, Aeroflot, LUKOIL, Schwarzkopf, L'Oréal (print advertising, corporate identity).
— At the same time, I develop corporate identity styles and guidelines, create logotypes, design annual reports, etc. for dozens of Russian companies.
— Autumn 2001, I am invited to M I L A N to work for Monte-parole, a Russian-Italian publishing house. During one month I provide consultancy on development design concepts for bilingual magazines.
End of October 2001, I move headquarters to P A R I S where I freelance on art illustration projects.
Summer 2003 - summer 2006, in Paris, I am the artistic director of one of the largest, most established Russian weekly magazines. Upon my arrival, I change the visual identity which enables a rapid development of the magazine, which is today distributed in France, the UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Greece. In 2005, I manage the five people that make up the creative department.
Winter 2005, I take on a new road: commercial illustration. I set up the design studio Opéra78 the main goal of which is to be creative and think different. I offer alternative routes to mainstream and ephemeral trends. I achieve my goals by being highly original and autonomous, from idea inception to final project delivery.
Summer 2006 - fall 2009, I live and freelance in Amsterdam while enhancing my designer image and building reputation with international names such as:
Art Illustration for magazines :
Esquire Magazine (U.S. Edition), New York Times, Die Zeit Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Men’s Health, Playboy, INTERNI and Elsevier Magazines
In collaboration with local advertising agencies:
Nike - Nike Air Jordan, Burton Snowboards, Nidecker Snowboards, Procter & Gamble, Absolut - Absolut Vodka, WWF, Amnesty International, Air Canada - Canadian Airlines, Aeroflot - Russian Airlines
And with international advertising networks:
TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles CA, TBWAChiatDay New York NY, Saatchi & Saatchi Moscow, DDB Amsterdam, Wieden+Kennedy, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), Serial Cut, Contexta AG, Nothing Commercial Creativity, and many others.
Summer 2007, I launch the corporate social responsibility project Ecopera. 80 artists from across the globe gather for a grand exhibition at the Moscow Gallery "Dom".
— As I pay close attention to people’s needs and feelings, over the years I’ve built strong and friendship relationships with a number of employers and clients.
R E C E N T _ W O R K
• Illustration and design of the Nidecker snowboard (Switzerland)
• Image content "Playfull Type by Fiodor Sumkin" for the new fashion collection UNIQLO (Japan)
• Pattern-illustration for the Nike, Air Jordan Brand shoes, bags and T-shirts (USA)
• Creative proposals for an illustration series for PUR Water, Procter & Gamble advertising campaign
• New York Times magazine, Alexander Solzhenitsin cover page illustration.
• Esquire Magazine (U.S. and Russian Edition, Illustration series)
• Collective Exhibition at the San Paulo Contemporary Museum, Brasil
Fall 2009, I come back to Paris where I initiate a new concept tool for graphic design named MUKA.
MUKA is an innovative blogging platform developed specifically with multy-touch screen- controlled devices in mind. Thanks to revolutionary content mamagement approach, MUKA helps to create beautifully layout blog posts, using the tricks previously only available to the users of complex graphic design applications. The project is underway, a beta version is to be released in June.
The project is built around the crowd-sourcing principle, and resembles 45 people worldwide. I am responsible for organizing the process and coordinating the three groups: programmers, graphic designers and copywriters. I am also in charge of the recruitment of new collaborators and the overall visual coherence of the project components.
Book and Catalogue Publications
Beyond publications in newspapers and magazines, tens of interviews in print or online magazines or portals, my art illustration has been published in a considerable number of contemporary graphic design and art illustration books.
Some of the recent art books that published my work are:
• Taschen: The Field Guide for Graphic Designers (late 2011)
• Rockport Publishers: Idea-ology (2010)
• Thames & Hudsun: New Ornamental Type (2010)
• Harper Collins Design: Source Illustration Book (2010)
• Die Gestalten Verlag: Illusive 2 (2008), The Playful Type (2009), The Playful Type 2 (late 2011)
T O O L S
Softwares: Adobe Photoshop, inDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, Apple Aperture, Final Cut Pro.
Operating Systems: PC, Advanced Mac user.
Web: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP - Zend Framework, Flash - ActionScript
Others: Canon 5d MarkII
L A N G U A G E S
Russian – mother tongue
Italian - fluent
English – able to negotiate
French - able to communicate
R E F E R E N C E S
Dave, Everett, Xavier, Michael, Hervé, Suzana, Andrew.