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This is portfolio by a freelancer illustrator Kotryna Zukauskaite (b.1987).
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//For now I'm living in two places: Vilnius (Lithuania) and Moscow (Russia) //
//Looking for a representative for British/European market //
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Also I'm developing my own illustrated products brand KATA KIOSK
You are very welcome to visit my BLOG
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My work is inspired by symbols and metaphors, Aesopian Language, theater, statistics and other data, fairy-tales, folk tradition, crafts, ornaments, aesthetics of Russian Constructivism, life story and art by Hieronymus Bosch and European art of his life-time, diversity of human capacities and talents, brain explorations and other science, hour-long interviews with famous people on Charlie Rose show, learning and reading classic lierature in different languages, also I'm a news&politics-chunky, very interested in history, especially history of propaganda an kitsch of XXc.
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C L I E N T ----- L I S T:
Alma Littera publishing house (constantly), New Scientist magazine, Brunswick Review, Šviesa publishing house (both: books department and electronic educational games department), Scaent Baltic Energy, Miesto IQ magazine (IQ. The Economist since April 2010), Lithuanian National Television, Pravda magazine, Cukrus Magazine, YEN magazine, EU project 'Vilnius - European capital of culture 2009', UK STYLE shop in Moscow, and others.
E X H I B I T I O N S ----- P A R T I C I P A T E D:
Mistakes, 20/21-12-2008, in Project Fabric, Moscow
End-year show, June 2009, BSHAD, Moscow
Degree show Stick 'em up, June 2010, Kingston University, London
Stick 'em up #2, June 2010, LBI, London
End-year show, (as an ex-student), June 2010, BSHAD, Moscow
Haarlem Stripdagen, bi-annual event on a theme of Eastern European illustration, June 2010, Netherlands
C O N T E S T S ----- A W A R D S ----- P R E S S:
Vodka Russian Standard, Christmas communication piece, winner, 2008, live project in BHSAD, Moscow
D&AD student awards, IN BOOK, 2009 (music video for pigsy in space)
Creative Quarterly, place in online gallery, issue 17 (published on december, 2009)
3x3 Merit winner in animation category (professional show), 2010
Digital Arts magazine, work show-cased, interview, May 2011, spread preview
E D U C A T I O N:
I studied product design at Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania, but left early to do a BA in illustration, each year of which was a different place: the University of Hertfordshire, the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, and Kingston University.
T E C H N I Q U E S ----- A N D ----- S O F T W A R E:
Paper and card for collages and a computer with a Wacom tablet for vector work. As for software, I mostly use Illustrator and Photoshop, with a little Indesign and Flash.