Maksim Arbuzov is a graphic designer and art director from Moscow, Russia. Born in 1981 in Siberian city Tomsk. He studied branding and graphic design at Central Saint Martins and British Higher School of Art & Design, and has worked as a freelancer since 2002. Before design education he graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2003 as a specialist in humanities. During his time in Tomsk, graphic design was not promoted to young adults. So he educated himself with books and the internet. He started working as illustrator in University newspaper and continued working in own design studio till the moment when his family moved to Montenegro. His love to fine art, music, and drawing led him to designer career. After living and working for 3 years in Montenegro he moved back to Russia.

Throughout his career he worked for Fleka design studio (Montenegro-Italia), Tomatdesign (Russia), BBDO Branding (Russia) and now he is design director in Landor (Russia). Maksim received a large number of awards and prizes such as Cannes Lions, Red Dot, Pentawards, Golden Drum and The Dieline within Tomatdesign creative group as an art director. He attended seminars, ran workshops and served at judging panels. Many of his works were published by International publishing houses: Counter Print (UK), Index Book (Spain), Lurzer’s Archive (Austria), Victionary (Hong Kong) and etc.

He values teamwork, however, he prefers working in silence to have his work done to satisfy the highest standards.
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