Arseny Vesnin

Current

• Senior Visual Designer at Exigen Services StarSoft
• Founder at Designcollector Network

Past

• UI Designer for T-Mobile UK at Exigen Services StarSoft
• Design observer at Digital Creative Arts Russia at Gameland
• Graphic Designer at Generator Agency

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Education

• Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet Tehnologii i Dizajna

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Industry

Design

Websites

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Arseny Vesnin’s Summary

Ten years experience in web designing as well as 5 years in design media producing. 3 years experience in delivering promotional, web and UX design for T-Mobile UK as a member of Exigen Services ODC team member and a part of UI Design Team.

Apart from daily basis UI designing and other design activities established the first Russian online magazine for designers Designcollector.ru in 2003. Designcollector is a place to see selected international designers portfolio and get news about last design events and contests. Since last year magazine became bilingual. With aprox.2500 daily hits and more than 3000 subscribes Designcollector is a well-known media partner for most of selected international events and activities like: ADCR, Electrolux Labs, Philips Design, FITC, OFFF, TOCA ME, MadinSpain and etc. As well as media support Designcollector has a partnership with vendor web market portals and resources like: The FWA, DesignYouTrust, Designspotter, DesignInEurope, DesignEast, NewWebPick, Ventilate, Behance Network and etc.

Earlier 2007 I've started Designcentre.ru - an automated export of news from selected design web feeds.

In 2008 I've opened a new international platform for design-geeks Designslices.com - a place were anyone from creative area can promote their works and post events, videos and a lot more stuff.

Arseny Vesnin’s Specialties:

Online media (bilingual)
Editorial experience (bilingual)
Technical writing (bilingual)
Web design
Web development
UI Design
UX Design
Graphic design
Branding and identity
Spatial design and Architecture (University studies)

Arseny Vesnin’s Experience

• Senior Visual Designer

  Exigen Services StarSoft

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2008 — Present (4 months)

• Founder

  Designcollector Network

  (Design industry)

  April 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  2003, Designcollector.ru - the first Russian design web magazine with world wide audience of readers and partners. Supports different world competitions, contests and events. In partnership with leading design sites and magazines.
  
  2007, Designcentre.ru - feed aggregator with handy picked design sources that translates their news for readers.
  
  2008, Designslices.com - collaborative playground for design geeks. Daily posting of cool design stuff, events, products, videos and much more.
  
  Experience gained from managing personal design projects:
  Filtration and selective work over media design traffic;
  Partnership with design mainstream portals and personalities;
  IA design; CMS configuration; theme design; Apache, MySQL and PHP practice;

• UI Designer for T-Mobile UK

  Exigen Services StarSoft

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 3 months)

  Worked at T-Mobile UK Outsourcing Development Centre - Exigen Services St.Petersburg.
  Experience gained:
  - solid communication experience working in shared international design team
  - daily work with shared sources/platforms/bug tracking systems within vcs/cvs systems, managing support task as well as creative request;
  - daily work with customer's content operational team - managing and pushing live different creative request
  - pushing web technology innovation through business and holding a responsibilities for their benefits (e.g. sIFR technology and etc.)
  - managing design trainings for a team (different topics)
  - creative work; creating design concepts for microsites, lot of promos, daily basis creative bits
  - managing different type of UI projects from wireframing of commercial online processes to end-user online solutions
  - getting responsibilities on site brand guidelines, creating brand guidelines
  - providing design audit as a process for further refactoring processes

• Design observer at Digital Creative Arts Russia

  Gameland

  (Publishing industry)

  August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

  Non-profit practice. Wrote short articles about significant design websites of that period.

• Graphic Designer

  Generator Agency

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  December 2003 — July 2004 (8 months)

  Part-time work as a graphic designer for Corinthia Nevskij Palace Hotel. Advertisement and pre-press design.

Arseny Vesnin’s Education

• Sankt-Peterburgskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet Tehnologii i Dizajna

  specialist, Advertising design, 1999 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Took a part in design exhibitions:
  2002 - Exhibition of graphic design "Znak 2002" St.Petersburg
  2003 - Exhibition of graphic design "Znak 2003" St.Petersburg
  
  Diploma "Off-line advertising campaign of web magazine Designcollector.ru" with excellent mark

Additional Information

Arseny Vesnin’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Arseny Vesnin’s Interests:

web design, graphics, arts, online media, user interface, usability, History of Arts

Arseny Vesnin’s Groups:

Behance, Drupal, Designcollector Network

•    Drupal
•    Behance Creatives
•    T-Mobile
•    Design Research
•    Exigen Services Corporate group
•    Designcollector Network
•    Design in Russia

Arseny Vesnin’s Honors:

2003 - Russian "Golden Site" award for DesignCollector.ru (NorthWest region - Education site)

2004 - Russian "Golden Site" First prize in North West Mass media for Designcollector.ru

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