FIRMA won Silver at Young Director Award
Russian agency FIRMA won Silver in Film category for Eristoff ad "Wolf is back" at Young Director Award by Cannes Lions
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Cannes Lions - Russia on cord
21 June This day has started with awesome news - Russian Leo Burnett Moscow gained Bronze Lion in Direct with "Photoshooting" campaign for WWF. But what is most awesome, is that the day ended with 2 awesome news - Gold Lion in Outdoor for Lego again by Leo Burnett, and Bronze Lion in Media Lions for Yekaterinburg based agency Voskhod for their simple and cool campaign "Book Fresheners" for "100000 Books" stores.
22 June Silver Lion in Design! Moscow based Depot WPF agency won first ever Russian award in this category for milk package
4 Lions and counting because Russia has a lot more lists in other categories http://www.canneslions.com/work/
View all three works under the cut
Bronze Lion in Direct: Leo Burnett Moscow "Photoshooting" WWF
Bronze Lion in Media Lions: Voskhod "Book Fresheners"
Gold Lions in Outdoor: Leo Burnett Moscow for Lego
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Silver Lion in Design: Depot WPF for Milk packaging
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D&AD 2011 Yellow and Silver Pencils for Russian students
Dmitry Karpov - the tutor of a Moscow based British High School of Art & Design recently shared an awesome news: Russian students took D&AD Yellow Pencil (2nd place) in Digital Design/Graphic design (no 1st place in a category for this year) and Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan and 4 In Book awards!
Svetlana Shokhanova, Nataliya Sinelshchikova, Mikhail Krivoruchko did an awesome iPad app concept for a Taschen brief. Watch the video under the cut.
And Silver Pencil goes to..
Silver Pencil for Interactive Design by Marina Tristan
Also Moscow students won 4 D&AD In Book Awards
Second In Book award goes for Interactive Design Ilya Krasinskiy
Fourth In Book Award for Advertising - Digital Direct Dmitry Kazban, Anton Basistov
Homafone (Humster phone) by Red Keds
Just fall in love with this madness case by Red Keds agency: Humster powered mobile phone "Homafone/Хомафон" Video and case itself is on Russian but you get the plot.
Pavel Platonov photography
Conceptual photography from Russian artist Pavel Platonov. Check his Flickr account for full series
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Omami New
Russian only.
Ну вот мы и дождались пожалуй самого затянувшегося апдейта дизайн блога Омами! Можете не дочитывать и смело шлепать по ссылке http://omami.ru и наслаждаться тонной информации о дизайне вокруг нас. От себя добавлю, что интерфейс сайта вышел очень интуитивным и прямо просится на экран айпада, студии Orange Label - отдельная благодарность за столь кристально чистый лук.
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Max Sauco digital art
Russian digital artist Max Sauco peels the skin of imagination and reveals the very deep internal statements of art, photo realism and surrealism.
Ride The Planet movie
Russian movie project Ride The Planet tells in 5 episodes the story of a free riding. Watch 5th episode was shot in Kamchatka, April 2011 under the cut.
Check previous episodes on director's Konstanin Galant Vimeo page
Polina Efremova photography
Moscow based young fashion photographer Polina Efremova shoots for commercial and personal projects with a dramatic colour's touch. Check here Behance profile as well as Livejournal account
Designcollector MAG for iPad!
To celebrate our 8 years online Designcollector's founder Arseny Vesnin together with talented iPad Magazines guru Fiodor Sumkin and art director Aziz Melibayev has released the brand new and awesome independent design magazine for iPad called "MAG"
Sonya Kozlova photography
Moscow based young very young photographer Sonya Kozlova makes strong very strong photo illusions.
Laptop stand by Dopludo Collective
Russian creative team from Dopludo Collective carved an ultimate wooden laptop stand for everyday use. What I admire personally is a possibility to have a relaxation scent coming out of the wooden body of a stand.
Freeger studio
Moscow based Freeger studio has been contributing its art direction to famous media agencies and delivered several FWA-awarded websites as well as great number of independent FMCG and promotional projects.
Sergey Yumakov motions
Young Moscow based motion designer and director Sergey Yumakov has added few new things to his portfolio since we checked him last year.
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Plasticine iPad
Multitouch and mutlistrech iPad developed by Sveta Shokhanova for design studie at Moscow based British School of Design.
Information diving by Tatiana Plakhova
Unique Russian illustrator Tatiana Plakhova uses no processing scripts for her illustrations. She recently released a new portion of artworks that is available for sale.
Andrey Muratov motion
Here is a nice piece of abstract but commercial motion design directed for some Russian leasing company by Andrey Muratov.
Merdanchik updates
One of the most professional Russian illustrator and graphic designer Merdanchik (Merdan Ageev) has updated personal portfolio with new posters and artworks.
Garmonique photography
Moscow based artist Garmonique shows off conceptual photography with solitude atmosphere.
Charlie Bearman illustrations
Moscow based young illustrator Cyril Pogorelov aka Charile Bearman works in classic manner spicing it by nice visual storytelling and interesting moments of captured life