**Hi 👋 My name is Daria Surkova I am an Art-director Illustrator and Graphic Designer
📍Barcelona**
Hi, I'm Daria! I'm an Art Director with 11 years of experience specializing in illustration, graphic, and motion design. My background includes diverse projects such as game design, branding, packaging, and web design. Currently based in Barcelona.
As an innovative creative, I've embraced AI technology to enhance my design process, offering clients cutting-edge solutions that keep up with the ever-evolving design landscape. I also share my experiences and insights on AI technology and design through my blog.
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
Tilting Point is one of the TOP 10 mobile games publisher in the world. Tilting Point is an international company with the offices in the different parts of the world. My task was to assemble and manage a team for the promo department in Russia. During my first year at the company, I gathered a team of illustrators and designers and built their effective work.
I worked as a team leader and a mentor, but also continued to create projects on my own. The task of my team was to create ads for mobile games and promote them in the Apple Store and Google Play and social networks.
During my time at the company, I worked on creating creatives for projects such as **Star Trek Timelines, Narcos Cartel Wars, Hidden Hotel, [SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off](SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off), Homesteads, MMA Manager.**
Semrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform. Working with SEMRush during the past year, I have produced plenty of illustrations for blog articles, landing pages, infographics, and company products. My work includes resizes and preparation of illustrations for further animation.
When I create illustrations for the SEMrush blog, my task is to analyse the name of the article and come up with an interesting visual metaphor for it.
I also created illustrations for all of the company's existing products and for various landing pages:
During last year I participated in the development of a new style of illustrations for the blog, so we moved from a mixed style of illustration like this or this to a single style like this:
14 of the Best Product Page Design Examples (that convert)
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
BIOCAD is s full-service international innovative biotechnology company. I started my work with the company as a graphic designer. During my time at the company, I have created a corporate identity for dozens of events, worked on catalog layout, developed design for promo stands, navigation and even cupcake design.
I created illustration and motion design for many interesting, complex projects. For example I developed a series of animated illustrations for a landing page with a story about the creation of a new drug:
I also created a design and promo video for the BIOCAD news portal
Daria Surkova - Promotional video for the Scientific Portal
Nov 2020
Phoenix-Press publishes educational books for children, textbooks and manuals for schoolchildren, applicants and students, non-fiction of various directions. The publisher approached me to create illustrations for a series of children’s books entitled: ”how to become a writer". Here you can see some of the illustrations for the book.
Aug 2019
I worked as an illustrator for a promo video about the launch of a new model of the tank "Pretty Fly" with The Offspring band in the game World of Tanks. My task on this project was to choose the style of the illustration and stylise the musicians from the Offspring group as comic book characters. Then, working on the storyboards, draw these characters for the entire video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1epgWNFik
Aug 2015 - May 2018
Dochery is a branding agency specializing in packaging design with bright, colorful illustrations in various styles. Members of the European Design Association. I joined the company as a junior designer, one year later I became a senior designer, and six months later I became an Art Director. During my time at the agency, I created plenty of packaging, corporate identity, and industrial design projects. You can see some of the work made by me with the agency, here: Rebranding Affligem abbey ale for Heineken, Wine Label Design concept, Identity of Residential complex "Russian Avant-garde", ECO Detergents Pure Water
Dochery - Packaging and design identity
My tasks in the agency included creating illustrations in various styles, working on the design of packaging and labels. Made presentations for clients. Manage brainstorming sessions. Control of the work of the team of designers and illustrators. Preparing layouts for printing, prepress. Interaction with printing houses. I worked on projects on my own or as an Art Director, came up with concepts and gave them to teams of designers and illustrators.
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
I created concepts and design of advertising campaigns for all stores in the chain. I did photo shoots and retouched photos for advertising companies and product catalogues. I was developing a website of the company, filled it with the company's products and also created an image for groups in social networks.
Sep 2011 - Sep 2013
At the very beginning of my career, I made designs of outdoor advertising, printed and souvenir products. I was also creating designs for public city events.