Almost every Ukrainian family had a “fish” in the cupboard. This is a service of Lithuanian origin that was created for drinking alcohol. It was extremely popular in Ukraine, so almost every family bought it in 80s. 

What is most interesting is that no one usually used it, so it just stood there as an accessory. As a teenager, I always paid attention to it and asked myself what it was for. So it was even a kind of mystical artifact that I loved to look at at my grandmother’s house.

The illustration is dedicated to the 32nd Independence Day of Ukraine. It is inspired by a reference video in which Ukrainian singer Krut, along with combat medic Iryna Tsybukh, perform the song ‘Contra spem spero!’ with lyrics by Lesya Ukrainka in the fields of Donetsk.

Earthquake in Turkey 2023

With the onset of hostilities, many people had to leave their homes. Unfortunately, not everyone could be evacuated from all the hotspots. This illustration is made from a real photo of people evacuating in a crowded bus.

The background features the flag of Donetsk Oblast as a symbol of the pain for the eastern part of Ukraine, which has suffered the most from the war. The girl embodies Ukraine itself, holding the trident, in which Ukrainian houses are depicted, and a soldier looking at the peace he himself fought for on behalf of the Ukrainian people.

“On September 10th, the Ukrainian Armed Forces reoccupied the strategically important city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region. Unfortunately, grim consequences of the war and mass burials of civilian victims, executed by the Russian army, were uncovered. During this period, I expressed my sorrow through illustration. The skeleton and the living hand symbolize Ukraine before and after the onset of the full-scale invasion.

Poster about Kyiv provided for Kyiv Design Week 2023.Typography composition consist of chestnut leaves as symbol of Kyiv – the capital of Ukraine.

Every year, a 100 km bicycle marathon is held in Kyiv. This year is no exception, even during the war. To the Independence Day of Ukraine, TSD Agency in collaboration with Artem Gusev created a creative promotion of the Kyiv bicycle marathon. To show that only the daily efforts of everyone to support the country bring Victory closer. And the bicycle helps us to be in proper shape physically and mentally. Let’s move to victory together!

A studio that creates imperfect interiors and leaves everything that has a history for you in the apartment. Often these are old, flaky, out-of-date, unfashionable, “ugly” things. Because it doesn’t matter what they look like if you feel warm looking at them.

The piece emerges from my shape-shifting Ukrainian identity, and is my attempt to identify and communicate key traumas which I have muffled for many years. As an immigrant, my original identity has been lost or transmuted through time, either through cultural rejection, or voluntary dissolution to satisfy conformity. I hope to act as a bonding agent for other immigrants, address the presence of pain and cultural limbo which is burrowed within many of us, and engage in the process of healing.

The Colorado potato beetle is an invasive insect which feeds on the potato plant. The Russian invaders in Ukraine share the beetle’s colors, orange and black, and march under the ribbon of Saint George, a symbol of Russian aggression and expansionism. Like the Colorado potato beetle, they are an invasive pest which consumes and destroys all in its path. The only way for the potatoes to survive, is to separate the pest from the crop.

A new Ukrainian cosmetics brand created with love for its consumers – scientific anti-aging formulas combined with the magical powers of natural oils, herbal extracts, and beneficial plants.
The project’s identity unites and emphasizes this duality – we’ve merged the rigor of a laboratory approach with the magical elegance of nature. Beyond this duality in branding, there’s also a hint of the brand’s Ukrainian origin.

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illustration for the article about the beauty in a wartime

Series of illustration for article about reading difficulty in a wartime.

Poster for Parachute fm station, Selekta concert, dj set charity for Kherson /Kahovka Dam/

The phrasing “critical infrastructure object” was one of the most popular in the newsfeed during the winter of 2022-2023 under conditions of massive Russian shelling and the destruction and blackouts caused by it. For me, this is a disturbing euphemism: when you cannot reveal the secret and show exactly where the missile hit, but at the same time, you should inform people about the current state of affairs. Made of Paper, sticky notes, transferable letters, Oracal film

Dedicated to Ukrainian fights for every field burned by russian army, every ship of grain, every corner shop keeping opened near the frontline

People always adore oceans, rivers, sea, but underestimate the beauty of local, domesticated water in their taps and bathtubes

Kherson region is Ukraine. Tribute to Italian minimalism, symbolic tomatos, watermelons and melons

The series is called (Unexpected) Harvest and is made out of a collage of paintings by Tetiana Yablonska and Karpo Trohymenko (stars of social realistic paintings) and traces of real Russian missiles from documentary photos. This is a combination of ideal images of desirable reality from soviet times and real reality from nowadays.

This image is one of the three single/album covers I created was created for the Ukrainian dark folk band The Wicker Man. The title of the first single is “Sentience”, and the cover that accompanies it marks the beginning of a woman’s quest for unity with the world beyond which continues in the next images.