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Valerii Galchenko (Ukraine)

Assistant professor, Chair of Graphic Design, Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.Member of the Ukraine Designers' Union. Author of numerous projects (calendars, commemorative albums, booklets, representative catalogues). Participant and prize-winner of a number of exhibitions held in Russia, Ukraine, Germany

 

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Vladimir Kakurin (Ukraine)

Vladimir Kakurin was born in 1954. In 1975 he graduated from the Kharkov Insitute of Culture. He was the founder of the Teater “Madrigal”, was teaching direction in the institutes of Lharov, was a theater director in Rovno and Donetsk. He was one of the founders of the first culturak center for the youth in Kharkov. Vladimir Kakurin is the author and director of TV transmissions and video films. He is the director of Chervona Strichka Charitable Foundation.

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Vladimir Lesniak (Ukraine)

Member of the Ukraine Designers' Union, member of the National Painters' Union of Ukraine, professor of the chair of graphic design of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, 
Specialization: trade mark, book design, packing.
Main projects: design of more than 100 trade marks, and logotypes, more than 50 posters, design 20 books, several accident fonts. Participant and prize-winner of a number of exhibitions held in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Czechia, Poland, USA.
Author of several books and articles in scientific and professional design editions.

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Mikhail Opalev (Ukraine)

Member of the Ukraine Designers' Union.
Specialization: web design, multimedia. 
Author of numerous albums, representative catalogues, multimedia presentations, web sites.

   Maria Norazyan (Ukraine)
Born in honourable Kharkov city. Graduated Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts as a magister with a hero of her life Iliya Pavlov. As her coworkers mentioned she works on a computer in a strange and non proper way, rides on  a bike, breaking the rules and hiting pedestrians. Loves book design and her family. Prefer more travelling and less working. Mariya Norazyan is a member of Ukrainian Association of graphic designers "4th Block", ICOGRADA, and Ukrainian designer Union.
Working at Grafprom studio (www.grafprom.com.ua).


Recent work:
from 2006 - cooperation with Rodovid Press. Creation of prize winning book designs.
from 2003 - desing concepts of Triennial "4-th Block"
from 2007 - cooperation with Karandash Design Bureau.

Recent prizes:
2008: Book of the year. «Cossack Mamai». Lviv. UA
2008: First prize of the fund «Ukraine 3000» for the poster «Holodomor. 1932.1933»
2007: Book of the year. «Leopold Lewicky». Lviv. UA
2007: Project MCA is a prize winner in international contest EIDOS 2006/07. Kiev. UA
2006: Book of the year. «Utopia. Chronicles 1992-2005». Kharkov. UA
Oleg Veklenko (Ukraine)

Professor of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Head of Graphic Design department (2000 – 2004), Honorary Artist of the Ukrainian Association of Graphic Designers ‘The 4th Block’, jury member of the ‘Golden Bee’ Moscow International Graphic Design Biennale in 1998 and 2004. He participated in a number of national and international exhibitions in Russia, Poland, Finland, Slovakia, Canada, Great Britain, Denmark and USA. His works have received awards and diplomas.
 Illya Pavlov (Ukraine)
Born in Ukraine 1982 Kharkov. In 1998 graduating Kharkov's Art Liceum totally forgotten all of the precise sciences and that was the reason to become a student of Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts. It was a place to learn how to speak properly the words like "creative" and "slogan". In 2006 graduated with the magister diploma with specialty 7.020.210 "Graphic Design". Since that time is a coworker with Maria Norazyan in their own studio "Grafprom"(www.grafprom.com.ua).

Recent work:
from 2006 - cooperation with Rodovid Press. Creation of prize winning book designs.
from 2003 - desing concepts of Triennial "4-th Block"
from 2007 - cooperation with Karandash Design Bureau.

Recent prizes:
2008: Book of the year. «Cossack Mamai». Lviv. UA
2008: First prize of the fund «Ukraine 3000» for the poster «Holodomor. 1932.1933»
2007: Book of the year. «Leopold Lewicky». Lviv. UA
2007: Project MCA is a prize winner in international contest EIDOS 2006/07. Kiev. UA
2006: Book of the year. «Utopia. Chronicles 1992-2005». Kharkov. UA
Competition initiators:
Kharkov Regional Charitable Foundation for Assistance to HIV/AIDS Affected People 4th Block
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