Thanks to my credo:
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life"
and with my 20+ years experience both in web and print and also in advertising and freelance art illustration, I feel comfortable navigating between the art and business world.
I'm open to collaborate and willing to interact with other clients from the globe.
Please feel free to contact me: opera78@me.com
Work Experience
Opera78
Founder and Owner
I'm an Illustrator since 1994 with strong background in Typography and Graphic Design, and Opera78 is my design project, established in Paris in 2005.
Soumkine – is the stationery and life style brand founded by Paris-based graphic and type designer Fiodor Sumkin. Soumkine’s main specialty is high quality hand crafted notebooks.
Illustration and design of the Nidecker snowboard (Switzerland)
Image content "Playfull Type by Fiodor Sumkin" for the new fashion collection UNIQLO (Japan)
Pattern-illustration for the Nike, Air Jordan Brand shoes, bags and T-shirts (USA)
Creative proposals for an illustration series for PUR Water, Procter & Gamble advertising campaign
New York Times magazine, Alexander Solzhenitsin cover page illustration.
Esquire Magazine (U.S. Edition, Illustration series)
See most of my work here — http://www.opera78.com
Book and Catalogue Publications
Beyond publications in newspapers and magazines, tens of interviews in print or online magazines or portals, my art illustration has been published in a considerable number of contemporary graphic design and art illustration books.
Some of the recent art books that published my work are:
Taschen: The Field Guide for Graphic Designers (late 2011)
Rockport Publishers: Idea-ology (2010)
Thames & Hudsun: New Ornamental Type (2010)
Harper Collins Design: Source Illustration Book (2010)
Die Gestalten Verlag: Illusive 2 (2008),
The Playful Type (2009),
The Playful Type 2 (2011)