Ksen, Panda, and fifteen years of design.
A wife, a dog, and work I still argue about.
That is most of it.
My first paid job was running a printing press. I designed for it in the same shop — and the press told me, every morning, which of my decisions had been wrong.
Eleven years ago I moved to Cyprus alone, with no job waiting and no Greek. I built the rest here.
Panda came out of a field near Paphos, one of five sisters in a bag. We took one.
Then ten years at one company, three identities. Long enough to learn which parts of a brand are load-bearing, and which ones only look that way.
I am easy to work with
and hard to move.
I show up, and I carry things over the line long after they stop being interesting. I bring the option nobody asked for. Sometimes it ships.
Where I do not bend: a decision needs a reason. If I disagree with a brief I say so once, clearly, with the alternative next to it — then I build whichever one you choose, properly. The rule runs both ways. I do not defend work because I made it.
With fabricators, film crews and freelancers I write the brief so the argument happens before the invoice, not after.
Alexey PuchkinFormer Marketing Team Lead at servers.comMore than six years working next to Dmitrii and I can't remember a deadline he missed or work we had to redo because quality slipped. He also handled the part most designers hand back: taking a vague request from sales or marketing, finding the actual question behind it, and delivering something the team could pick up without another meeting.
I make things that are not files.
Dirt roads, no signal, nothing to look up. The best thinking I do is out there.
Half a millimetre decides if the stone sits right. Fabricators know that argument.
The material decides most of it, the grain the rest. My job is to notice before I cut.