maria chumak

art and design — paris, France

About

Art and Design lecturer, Illustration, Painting/Drawing, Fashion Illustration and Design
CAD: Adobe, Macromedia, Lectra

Over 15 years of experience in advertising and graphic design, fashion design, drawing and illustration for design projects and fabric, teaching drawing/painting and supervising concept development projects in art and design colleges. Preparing technical drawings for fashion industry, supervising production. Advanced CAD skills

Citizenship: French, Russian, work permit - all EU, Russia, India
Languages: trilingual - Russian/French/English, basic Spanish

Experience:
15+ years
Education:
Greta de la Mode Paris (fashion design)
Ecole des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg (visual communication-illustration)
Kent Institute of Art and Design (fashion design and textiles)
Russian Academy of Art and Design (Fine Arts, painting major)
Awards:
EXHIBITIONS / PRIZES / COMPETITIONS / TITLES
- Colmar Book Fair in Alsace (France) jury member
- Member Taylor Foundation
- exhibitions of paintings (Strasbourg, France): ARC Seminar Hall, Central Post Office,
entrance hall of Sofitel Hotels
-1st Art Prize of Rotary Club for video installation
- Art Prize “Golden Easel” (France)
- New Art International biennial participant (Moscow, Russia)
- Painting and graphic works in private collections in France, Italy, UK, USA, Netherlands, Russia, Finland

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Resumé

WORK EXPERIENCE:
WORK EXPERIENCE:

07/07/2011- 05/10/2012 fashion design lecturer in Raffles Millennium International (Bangalore,India)
Teaching modules:
Advances diploma: fashion sketching/drawing, color theory, history of fashion/contemporary styles and trends, collection development, garments and composition
BA modules: Major studio project, Design in interactive system, Sustainable Design, Fashion Management and Marketing, CAD-II (Using Adobe)
Organization of Graduation fashion show and exhibition. Setting screen-printing studio in college

2011- design for casual wear brands
Creation of eco-concept, fashion design, following the production.
Visual communication for catalogue and website

Participation in many art project and exhibitions

oct. 2008 - june 2010 St. Petersburg State University of Design and Technology
Department of Costume Design - Drawing Course and Figurative Painting Course Leader
St. Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. Teaching drawing of 4 classes: fashion design, illustration, graphic design and foundation year.

september 2006 - june 2007 France Textile (Paris, France) knit wear for big distribution in France (manufacturing at least 100 000 pieces per model for Auchan.fr, Gemo.fr, Casino.fr, E.Leclerc.com etc. Creation of design and following the production in Turkey. Work on contact. 2007 september - june 2008 work as free lance textile print designer for France Textile. (brands: Armand Thiery, Cacharel, IKKS, Catimini -clients)

june 2007 - september 2007 Indian Journey (Mumbai, Chennai, Calcutta, Jaipur) "Indian Indian Cinema and its impact on society" report
"Fashion City" photo report for WGSN

june-august 2006 WGSM (Worth Global Style Network, UK, Eastern Europe department) www.wgsn.com illustrator, trend forecaster. Fashion Illustrations for the leading online fashion trend-analysis and research service. Through the "haute couture" collections find the tendencies create the set of color drawings, fabric and color research. Article (text and runway photos) on Fashion week in Moscow (march 23-30.2007).

2005 - Freelance visual communication project for
«ORANGE» UK
«MoneyGram» money transfer. Graphic design for flyers, posters, website and etc.

Polistyles (Strasbourg. France) new creative magazine specialized in fashion and brand tendency-creative director. Choice of articles, following the publicity photos.
freelance graphic designer and illustrator for Morgan http://www.morgan.fr/, Marie Valois http://www.marievalois.com/(golf wear brand)

2004 (summer) - YOCAR publishing (« Secret Service Style » ) brand book illustrator

2000 july - 2001 may ceramics and painting tutor for YMCA day camps (Pennsylvania, California, USA)



Projects by maria chumak