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Senior
Registration: 15.06.2026

Oleg Pospelov

Specialization: Art Director / Brand Designer
Brand Designer & Artist with 27 years of experience in brand development, digital environments, and visual communications. — 15+ year core focus on identity architecture, from conceptual strategy to final production control and scalable design systems. — Author of the Oranienbaum typeface (published on Google Fonts, ranked among top 100 free fonts by AWWWARDS-2015). — Type design expertise: custom sign systems and typefaces developed from scratch. — Art direction and team coordination; outsourced specialist for international design agencies and major studios. — Wayfinding systems design for large-scale commercial facilities including shopping malls and hotels.
Brand Designer & Artist with 27 years of experience in brand development, digital environments, and visual communications. — 15+ year core focus on identity architecture, from conceptual strategy to final production control and scalable design systems. — Author of the Oranienbaum typeface (published on Google Fonts, ranked among top 100 free fonts by AWWWARDS-2015). — Type design expertise: custom sign systems and typefaces developed from scratch. — Art direction and team coordination; outsourced specialist for international design agencies and major studios. — Wayfinding systems design for large-scale commercial facilities including shopping malls and hotels.

Portfolio

HOOKAH LOUNGE CHAIN FIRMSTYLE

● Creator.

MTUZ rebranding

● Creator.

Brand Identity Toolkit for Tatiana Vashina

● Creator.

Skills

Brand Identity Design
Art Direction
Visual Communications
Typography
Type Design
Brand Strategy
Concept Development
Guidelines Development
Design Systems
Identity Architecture
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Figma
Adobe After Effects
Motion Design
Brand Motion
Pre-press
Print Production
Wayfinding Design
Multi-page Publications Design
Analog Graphics
Tilda
Generative AI Art

Work experience

Art Director / Lead Brand Designer
since 01.2008 - Till the present day |NDA
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Figma, Adobe After Effects
● Managed the full project timeline from early brand strategy to final rollout — autonomous in handling workflows and delivery. ● Designed digital brand touchpoints: web interfaces, interactive screen systems, functional design systems, layout rules, and guidelines. ● Developed and managed technically challenging print projects (premium print, catalogs, books). ● Set tasks and supervised hired specialists (illustrators, calligraphers, 3D motion designers) to scale production capacity. ● Developed interior and exterior navigation, sign systems, and spatial graphics for large-scale commercial facilities, including shopping malls and hotels. ● Executed visual strategy, concept development, and identity design as an outsourced specialist for international design agencies and major studios.
Visual Communications Designer
01.2001 - 01.2008 |NDA
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
● Designed static and dynamic banners for web advertising, promotional pages, and basic interface solutions for commercial websites. ● Developed printed advertising materials, multi-page promotional assets, and corporate collateral, managing the complete pre-press production cycle. ● Developed custom sign systems, monograms, lettering, and unique logotype weights for local and international commercial brands. ● Examined letterform geometry and constructed modular systems.
Web Designer
01.1999 - 01.2001 |NDA
HTML, CSS
● Designed early commercial web pages and coded HTML. ● Created interface graphic elements and basic interactive solutions. ● Designed static and dynamic banners for web advertising.

Educational background

Theatre History and Theatre Criticism (Bachelor’s Degree)
1995 - 2000
St. Petersburg State Academy of Theatrical Arts (SPbGATI), Faculty of Theatre History and Theatre Criticism

Languages

EnglishUpper IntermediateSpanishElementaryRussianNative