http://mishasmetana.com Misha Smetana Art Direction & Design Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:53:39 +0000 http://mishasmetana.com en http://mishasmetana.com/96008/eda-afisha-ru http://mishasmetana.com/96008/eda-afisha-ru Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:53:39 +0000 Misha Smetana Art Direction & Design 96008 A most recent project so far – web site based on Afisha-Eda Magazine and aimed on wider audience. Browse it here, you may even find it useful if you know Russian. Previous&nbsp;/&nbsp;Next image&nbsp;(1 of 3)<img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/96008/site-1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="365" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/96008/site-2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="365" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/96008/site-3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="365" align="left" /> http://mishasmetana.com/96008/eda-afisha-ru http://mishasmetana.com/61639/About-Misha-Smetana http://mishasmetana.com/61639/About-Misha-Smetana Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:47:13 +0000 Misha Smetana Art Direction & Design 61639 I'm an art director and graphic designer based in Moscow, Russia. I was born and educated in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved northeast in 2000 to work for the then new and small Russian publishing house called Afisha. During the past ten years I've designed and redesigned several magazines, guides books and books of fiction; opened up a new magazine in St. Petersburg; art-directed the creation of a new website and a few ad campaigns for the company's publications. I prefer in-house team work, creating new publications, structuring and restructuring them. I believe in strong cooperation among design, editorial and photography teams within the publication. I'm a regular in Istanbul because I'm in love with the city. I collect antique rings and adore Central Asian and Turkic tribal textiles and rugs. Mentions of my work: at Jeremy Leslie's magCulture.com, at the Brazilian nascapas blog. Contact me at misha.smetana@gmail.com or via LinkedIn. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/61639/myself.jpg" border="0" width="540" height="720" align="left" /> During the photoshoot for Afisha-Eda Magazine. Photo by Sergei Leontiev http://mishasmetana.com/61639/About-Misha-Smetana http://mishasmetana.com/67999/Launch-Ads-for-Afisha-Eda http://mishasmetana.com/67999/Launch-Ads-for-Afisha-Eda Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:46:06 +0000 Misha Smetana Art Direction & Design 67999 These are the key images of Afisha-Eda magazine's launch campaign. The tagline reads, «The first fresh magazine about food.» The photographs were shot in several Moscow supermarkets. <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/67999/6x3 Eda OystersV2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="335" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/67999/three.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="335" align="left" /> http://mishasmetana.com/67999/Launch-Ads-for-Afisha-Eda http://mishasmetana.com/66089/Afisha-Guides http://mishasmetana.com/66089/Afisha-Guides Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:28:59 +0000 Misha Smetana Art Direction & Design 66089 For the past nine years, I've been working on Afisha's city guides, which were the first in Russia to be written by Russian authors for the Russian-speaking travelers. I designed the original look of the guides, oversaw the redesign in 2007 and have recently finished the latest redesign. The selection here includes one cover (Осло) in its original 2000 design and one of the 2010 redesign (Лондон). 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The fun of it ranged from laying out the pages for 36 hours in a row to redesigning the entire magazine, and from having 4 bosses to being a boss of 4. The following selection mostly includes covers from 2002 and 2003. 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The magazine is widely considered that year's best new magazine in Russia. I've designed it from scratch and continue to work on the project as the art director. «[...] there’s something very satisfying about the combination of elements on the cover – that tiny bottle of wine would be invisible without the space around it. Combining multiple images on any cover is difficult, but the hierarchy of images and text just feels right in this case. It’s a rare surprise». – Jeremy Leslie, magCulture.com Click on the cover to look inside the magazine. To browse through the latest issue click here (Flash 9 required). <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/3084268567_df50d72ca9_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/3309514588_a45ec8115f_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/3387857680_21c23b5f89_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/3470585477_4d73cb0102_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/3584489749_e037909898_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/3965301211_cd59982af3_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/c4_1_ae08rev3_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> <img src="http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/6718/65856/4149239141_163121b44b_m.jpg" border="0" width="185" height="240" align="left" /> http://mishasmetana.com/65856/Afisha-Eda-Magazine