Cover design of the reissue of the memoirs of the Ukrainian actor and director Joseph Hirniak. He played at the Berezil Theatre and the Kyiv Theatre for Young Spectators, and from 1947 in New York he headed the Ukrainian Theatre in America, Theatre of the Word. Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk (Kharkiv)

This is a creative interpretation of my own world and the idea that you should never leave the path to your dreams.

“The Ukrainian: Life And Culture” is a quarterly print magazine for an English-language readership in the US and worldwide (2018-2021). Certificate of Typographic Excellence by Type Directors Club (2023). Editor-in-Chief: Inna Golovakha
Ukrainian Editor: Katia Klim
Contributing Editors: Will Hicks
Birgit Meade, Joseph Green, Penelope Bell
Artist/Designer: Oleksii Chekal

Poster for the Ukrainian-Swiss music festival in St. Gallen (Switzerland), dedication to anniversaries of composers Valentin Silvestrov (85) and Adolf Karl Zwicker (70). TRISTIUM
– the entire program of the concert was dedicated to the music of the modern Ukrainian composer Victoria Vita Poleva, who is celebrating her 60th birthday on the same day.

Illustration for charity project @swisshelpukraine.ch
The composition is a visualization of the idea of the desire for freedom and unity.

Jam Factory Art Center is a revitalization project for a former liqor factory that was converted into a canned food factory in the Soviet era. After several years of vacancy, the former factory was bought in 2015 by Swiss and Austrian historian and philanthropist Harald Binder, who decided to build an art center.
AVR Development developed a working project for the revitalization of the factory and the area around it.

Calligraphy, black paper, white ink, pen.
Is a Ukrainian patriotic march, first published in 1875 by Volodymyr Antonovych and Mykhailo Drahomanov. It was written in a modern treatment by the composer Stepan Charnetsky in 1914, in honor and memory of the Sich Riflemen of the First World War. This song is in the song “Hey Hey Rise Up” by the legendary band Pink Floyd, after video of Boombox soloist Andriy Khlyvnyuk, in which he sings “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” on Sofia Square in Kyiv.

Calligraphy of the text of the world-famous song of the Ukrainian rebels from Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
Calligraphy, red paper, white ink, pen.
“Ах, лента за лентою – набої подавай,
Вкраїнський повстанче, в бою не відступай!”
This song is in the song “Hey Hey Rise Up” by the legendary band Pink Floyd. The work of British rockers was inspired by the video of Boombox soloist Andriy Khlyvnyuk, in which he sings “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” on Sofia Square in Kyiv.

The work from Uninvited Symbols series. Mythological thinking founds the amulet in embroidered symbols on Ukrainian traditional shirts. Pragmatic thinking asks present-day destructions to become the foundation of a fortress of national self-awareness, protecting our future. Each element of the destroyed corresponds to the ethnographic region where the old photo was taken.
Mythological Moirai secures the order in Universe. And you know the 3 of Moirai. I see they 3 isn’t enough.

Tree of Life embroidery is our ancient symbol of life and family wellness. The image of a Ukrainian embroidered shirt Vyshyvanka was used as a symbol of blood donation protecting life nowadays.

A woman in war occupies an important place: as a guardian of the safety of her family. She is a support for a man – a warrior, for children. She is the doctor of their wounds. But who will heal her soul?

Designed by two masters of Ukrainian type art, Andrij Shevchenko and Kyrylo Tkachov, for communication in the city of Dnipro city, it has its own unique character, without losing the ease of reading.

The spirit of the Carpathian mountains, which lives in dark caves and comes out when it is necessary to protect nature from evil.

The theme of this group exhibition was “Boundaries”, broken by the war.
The poster was first painted directly on the wall and then photographed for use in digital format. It uses a real “to the shelter” sign, which points directly to the shelter where the exhibition was held.
The lettering was made in a tight contour, like the walls of a shelter room.
Translation of the lettering, clockwise: To the shelter; 29th October; «Boundaries»; Literally Underground Exhibition’ and the opening time 16:11.

This poster has 3 main symbols. First is colors — blue and yellow as the Ukrainian flag, but they`re sky and explosion. Second is the phrase. “You gotta Fight for Your Freedom” was inspired by one of the songs by the Beastie Boys “You gotta Fight for Your Right”. The third symbol is the crashed russian missile. These 3 symbols show the current war in a more unofficial but still relevant style as a reminder that it affects all spheres of life.

An animation project highlighting the tragedy that Ukraine is experiencing today.
The film tries to draw attention to the impossibility of standing aside and turning a blind eye to the terrible destruction caused by russian attacks.

The visual part has a cold and restrained aesthetic to convey the pressure and tension, which Ukrainians feel every day, but at the same time keep believing in victory and bright future.

Lutsk is one of the most ancient cities of Ukraine. The original settlement was built around 1000 CE at a bend of the river Styr. Today that area is the State Historical and Cultural Preserve, “The Old Lutsk”. Lutsk Type is an all caps typeface and was designed as a display font, it can be used in many ways. This font works perfectly on book covers, greeting cards, invitations, weddings, posters, magazines, logos, packaging, letterpress, etc The typeface was designed by Kyrylo Tkachov

In the „Quantum” project some of the fragments of the human body are quite realistic, others are deformed, as if there is an aberration of vision that distorts familiar forms, as if we are trying to focus on something that is constantly slipping away. These surrealistic games are enhanced by multi-coloured lighting. We find ourselves in a theatre of alternative corporeality, where instead of the certainty of anatomy, there is a chaotic set of elements for paradoxical reconstruction…