Designer/Art director
I focus on data visualization and graphic design, which includes creating UI, infographics, charts, maps, illustration and editorial designs. I helping companies use visualizations to be clearer and more visual.
✦ Name: Evgeny Tarasenko
✦ Marital status: married
✦ Date of birth: 1985, Moscow, Russia
✦ Language: Russian (native), English (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)
Skills
✦ Softskills: responsibility, systems thinking, empathy, negotiability, creativity.
✦ Hardskills: Figma, Adobe (Ps, il, Ae etc.), rawgraphs.io, datawrapper.de, Tableau Public, QGIS, Flourish, SketchUp, Google Sync Sheet and more.
Work experience
2023 – now
Independent specialist
Last project:
✦ User interface with visualization for HeadHunter (NDA).
✦ Visual conceptions and graphic design of electronic education kit for Amperka Robots.
2020 – 2023
Deputy Department Head at MIA Rossiya Segodnya
I participated in the relaunch of the operational infographics department in the Rossiya Segodnya media group. I was responsible for the meaning of projects and was involved in optimizing production: developing templates, instructions, helping designers and editors produce infographics, and conducting internal training courses. In the first year we completed 450 projects, and in 2023 there were already about 1,400.
✦ Produced all infographics as editor and art-director;
✦ Produced all infographics as editor and art-director;
✦ Leading a group of designers.
✦ Created templates for designers in Figma;
✦ Created guidelines for all client teams;
✦ Created templates for designers in Figma;
✦ Created guidelines for all client teams;
✦ Resource assessment;
✦ Trained employees.
✦ Trained employees.
2022—2023
Expert at Netology (EdTech)
Preparing materials and conducting infographic lessons for designers. We discuss about spreadsheets, interactivity in information design, visualization tools (rawgraphs.io , datawrapper.de , Tableau Public, QGIS etc.).
2022
Teacher at HSE (Higher School of Economics)
The teacher on Data Visualization and Presentation. I prepared materials and conducted data visualization lessons for students. We discussed how to present a story and improve it with data and visualization.
2016—2020
Lead Designer at RBC (RosBusinessConsulting)
I developed the rules for the process of production, promoted web, magazine, and newspaper infographics and created a style guide. You can read more about that or watch my performance at Design&Media.
✦ Template design for braking news infographics.
✦ Designing infographics for web-site, mobile, newspaper and magazine.
✦ Data visualisation.
✦ Prototyping for interactive projects.
✦ Leading a group of designers.
✦ Employee training.
✦ Designing infographics for web-site, mobile, newspaper and magazine.
✦ Data visualisation.
✦ Prototyping for interactive projects.
✦ Leading a group of designers.
✦ Employee training.
2014—2019
Owner/Art-director at Cluster
I tried several new roles for myself: sales, accounting, negotiations, resource calculation, time management, and employee search. The clients included Rostelecom, Simple Vine, and Amperka.
2012
Infographic designer at Yandex (Postmaster)
Development of interface design for one of the Yandex products, whose task was to display statistics on mailings on a common dashboard. Look some picture at review
2012
Infographic designer at DEFA
✦ Creating the style and layout of infographics;
✦ Editing and search for additional materials;
✦ Illustrations, pictograms.
2011—2012
Graphic designer at Articul Production
✦ Development of brand identity and logos;
✦ Development of infographics for presentations and websites;
✦ Structure, modular grid and brand book layout;
✦ Rendering of illustrations and pictograms.
2009-2010
Infographic designer at Bonnier Business Press (Delovoy Peterburg newspaper)
✦ Brainstorming, sketching and visualization of infographics: diagrams, illustrations, cartography and pictograms.
✦ Layout of the strips and Implementation and preparation of infographics for printing.
Education
Higher
✦ Graphic Designer. Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (2005 — 2011)
✦ Graphic Designer. Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (2001—2005)
Additional
✦ Data journalism (Strelka institute, 2021)
✦ Cartography for designers (Rossiya Segodnya, 2020)
✦ Type design (TypeTypeSchool, 2015).
✦ Interactive art director. (School of Interactive Communications Ikra, 2013–2014).
✦ User interface and presentation of information (Artem Gorbunov TC, 2013).
✦ Infographic (British Higher School of Design, 2012). Gave me a big picture of the industry
Performances
✦ Effective infographics. SputnikPro 2023;
✦ Only not bar-charts. OpenDataDay–2020;
✦ Small shapes of visualization. Media & Design 2019;
✦ Diagram language. Summer School of Data Visualization 2019.