Olga received her diploma in Communication Design in 2005 from Moscow’s most prestigious applied art school. Her working career also started in Moscow — as chief designer for the Oil&Gas Eurasia magazine, and doing design projects for the Russian-British Theatre Group. From August 2003 she shared her time between freelance projects for the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Print Design bureau, where she worked with a wide range of clients from the Russian Development Bank to the State Kremlin Palace. At the end of 2004 she designed for the Red Cross Federation’s Beslan Rehabilitation Program. In 2005-2006, she was a designer in the Magic Box advertising agency.

Soon after Olga moved to London in 2006 she joined Thomas Manss & Company – a multidisciplinary design company with offices in London and Berlin specialising in the design of corporate identities, books, magazines, corporate literature, exhibitions, signage and new media. Here she was project manager for work with Profmedia, a Russian media company. She have also worked with UNICEF and SAVE Britain’s Heritage, and is currently senior designer of the Business New Europe magazine.

She is fluent in Russian and English, very experienced with all major graphic design software, and a skillful illustrator and photographer.

Date of Birth: 29.10.1981

Nationality: Russian / British

Work to Date:
Jan. 2008 – Present,  Freelance Designer for SAVE Britain’s Heritage, London
Mar. 2007 – Present ,  Freelance Designer for Business New Europe, London, Berlin
Dec. 2007 – Apr. 2008,  Freelance Designer for UNICEF, Czech Republic
Aug. 2006 – May 2008,  Thomas Manss & Company, multidisciplinary design company, London
Aug. 2005 – Mar. 2006,  Designer, Magic Box communications agency, Moscow, Russia
Oct. 2004 – Mar. 2006,  Freelance designer for Red Cross Federation
Beslan Rehabilitation Programme
Aug. 2003 – Aug. 2005,  Designer, Print Design design bureau, Moscow, Russia
Oct. 2003 – Nov. 2005,  Freelance Designer for Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia
Summer 2003 Freelance designer for Moscow Players theatre group
Oct. 2001 – Oct. 2002,  Designer, Oil&Gas Eurasia magazine, Moscow, Russia

Education:
Sep. 1999 – Apr. 2005,  Moscow State University of Industrial and Applied Arts – Diploma in Communication Design
Sep. 1989 – June 1999,  English specialised school N1204, Moscow