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Welcome to portfolio by a freelancer illustrator Kotryna Zukauskaite
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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
And you are very welcome to visit my BLOG
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My work is inspired by symbols and metaphors, Aesopian Language, statistics and other data, costume history, ornaments, patterns, different industrial structures, aesthetics of Russian Constructivism, modernist architecture, hour-long interviews with famous people on Charlie Rose show, also I'm a news & politics-chunky, very interested in history, especially history of propaganda and kitsch of XIX-XX century.
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• C L I E N T S:
• Alma Littera publishing house (constantly) • New Scientist magazine
• Random house • 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:
– Haarlem Stripdagen, bi-annual event on a theme of Eastern European illustration, June 2010, Netherlands
– End-year show, (as an ex-student), June 2010, BSHAD, Moscow
– Stick 'em up #2, June 2010, LBI, London
– Degree show Stick 'em up, June 2010, Kingston University, London
– End-year show, June 2009, BSHAD, Moscow
– Mistakes, 20/21-12-2008, in Project Fabric, Moscow
• C O N T E S T S • A W A R D S • P R E S S:
- Laikas.lt, interview, March 2012
– Digital Arts magazine, work show-cased, interview, May 2011, preview
– 3x3 Merit winner in animation category (professional show), 2010
– Creative Quarterly, place in online gallery, issue 17 (published on Dec, 2009)
– D&AD student awards, IN BOOK, 2009 (music video for "Pigsy in Space")
– Vodka Russian Standard, Christmas communication piece, winner, 2008,
live project in BHSAD, Moscow
• 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 • S O F T W A R E:
Paper and card for collages and a Mac computer + Wacom tablet for vector work. As for software, I mostly use Illustrator and Photoshop, and a little bit of Indesign and Flash.