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Here's the praise to Calibri

Source: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/calibri/ Calibri has been behaving badly, tell us presentation specialists at Slidebean: 'Calibri is one of the ugliest fonts ever invented by mankind, I hold it up there with other design fails such the infamous Comic Sans MS'.

Ouch. After reading an introduction like this the only fonts I want to use now are by all means only Comic Sans and Calibri! I'm even ready to forget my beloved Arial and Times New Roman for a while. (:

Image source: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ascender/calibri/

tags: font, typography
categories: reference, research notes
Tuesday 06.24.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

New Gothic infographic on the Guardian - statistics 5 days later

Gothic infographic by Adam Frost and me on The Guardian books - 70K views within 5 days! Plus 10K Facebook shares and 500 Tweets. Is it a lot, though?.. Summary for How to tell you're reading a gothic novel – in pictures

tags: gothic, guardian, infographic, stats
categories: research notes
Saturday 05.10.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Street band - photography and drawing

Field experiment: a drawing which has taken the same time to do as the photograph. Stockholm street band drawing

photo: Daniil Alexandrov

Photo courtesy: Daniil Alexandrov

tags: alexandrov, band, drawing, experiment, photo, rock-n-roll, sketch, stockholm, street
categories: photos, research notes
Friday 05.09.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Our interactive for Live Better challenges goes live!

Production: Adam Frost, Rosie Roche, Gabriela VieruDevelopment: Matt Bentley Design and illustrations are by me.

live_better_screenshot

tags: agency, design, guardian, iconography, illsutration, interactive, sustainable, unilever, waste
categories: research notes
Friday 04.25.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Our infographic on Forbes' website

Beth Hoffman kindly mentions the three pieces we produced for CCAFS:forbes_cc

tags: Adam Frost, digital agency, forbes, guardian, infographics
categories: research notes
Tuesday 04.08.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Fainting girl

fainting-girl

tags: animated, gif, gothic, infographic
categories: research notes
Monday 03.17.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari sketches

Scan 3 Scan 4 Scan 5 Scan 6 Scan 7 Scan 8 Scan 9

tags: film, ink, pencil, sketchbook
categories: photos, research notes
Monday 03.17.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Live better!

Advertisment posters at The Guardian: image  

Some other illustration work done for the interactive (which is going to come live here in three weeks, watch this space!):

 

volunteering_bg_colour

tags: advertising, better, guardian, live, news, poster, sustainability
categories: photos, research notes
Friday 03.07.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Colour exercises 1 and 2

slade_painting_exercise1_scr slade_painting_exercise2_scr

tags: abstract, brush, card, colour, exercise, oil, paint, painting, paper, red, slade, volume
categories: research notes
Tuesday 03.04.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Rothaus!

rothaus

categories: photos, reference, research notes
Saturday 02.08.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Sketch for Live Better Challenge (Unilever/GLabs)

live_better_glabs_feedback_2

tags: character, Flat, guardian, illustration, vector
categories: research notes
Friday 02.07.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Five states of White Lion Street print

whitelionst_animatedDry point, monoprint, January 2014  

And here's the original sketch, made from Craft Beer pub:Scan-131215-0022

 

The sketch, among other Urban Sketcher's sketches was also kindly offered by James Hobbs for display on BBC radio 4 website, as part of his interview about his new book and urban sketchers community.

 

tags: drypoint, london, monoprint, print, printmaking, sketch, urban sketchers
categories: research notes
Monday 02.03.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
Comments: 2
 

Live better gLabs/Unilever concept image

live_better_glabs_3

tags: glabs, guardian, infographic
categories: research notes
Wednesday 01.15.14
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Six paintings of cubes

image

tags: class, exercise, oil, painting, slade
categories: research notes
Monday 11.25.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Poster for cabaret performance

zhenia_poster_cabaret

tags: cabaret, performance, poster, practice
categories: research notes
Monday 11.11.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Mr and Mrs Zhenia

Scan 6

categories: research notes
Wednesday 10.30.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

More of MJM conference stuff

Process sketches for the MJM-Deloitte stuff: mjm_conference6

tags: Deloitte, Flat, MJM, Process, sketches, vector
categories: research notes
Tuesday 10.29.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Animal badges for Deloitte conference

animalsAnimal badges for Deloitte conference in Dallas - rough stage

For the inspiration, here's a link to some other examples of animal badge-like illustrations, from the portfolio of Portland-based studio Always With Honour.

tags: abstract, Animal, badges, circle, conference, Dallas, Deloitte, retro, rough, stage, stylized
categories: research notes
Wednesday 10.23.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

The Orb flyer

Scan 2

categories: photos, research notes
Saturday 10.19.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 

Light show at Barbican - the flyer

This event featured the visual effects created in traditional (non-digital) ways:Scan 1

categories: photos, research notes
Saturday 10.05.13
Posted by Zhenia Vasiliev
 
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