DARIA KUVAKINA was born in 1991 in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk. She once studied Architecture in St. Petersburg as well as in Hamburg, where she also lives today. Since 2023, she has been on the team of the Ambassador of Illustration – and is dedicated entirely, of course, to illustration.
Before that, though, Daria studied Architecture at the HCU Hamburg and worked as an architect for seven years. Her first shot at self-fulfillment put her on the path to discovering her one true calling – illustration.
Her portfolio is marked by impressive illustration: lines, colors, light and shadows. Positive and friendly, ready for a broad range of requirements with regard to content and technique in the area of illustration and animation. Character development has meanwhile become a strong suit – upon request gladly with a pinch of humor. Thematic compositions : her visualizations are full of rich detail and easy to understand.
Her personified animals or animal characters are particularly appreciated by banks and insurances. Lines are reduced to create icons. “The former architect’s keen eye for spatial perspective is, of course, focused on illustration.” Caroline Seidler, Ambassador of Illustration.
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Illustration Daria Kuvakina c/o carolineseidler.com
About CAROLINESEIDLER.COM
Caroline Seidler provides orientation in the thicket of possibilities for illustration, animation and conception. Long experience and empathy allow this special advice, which includes time and cost planning and project support. "There is no such thing as beautiful or ugly, the aim is to find the style that suits the briefing and storytelling, product, target group, advertising material."
Illustration for business, culture, tourism and communication. 2D, 3D, moving images. We support visual communication with illustration and animation. We focus on people's need for visual communication. We use culturally learned imagery and its psychological functions. At "The Message of Illustration carolineseidler.com" the core competence is advice.
As an expert, Caroline Seidler and her employees provide orientation and security in the thicket of possibilities: style, technology, price-performance ratio and production support. "It is always surprising and gratifying what projects and topics customers approach us with. We are known and valued in the D/A/CH economic area." The most diverse styles require a tact, the techniques require constant active engagement with new technologies and the content requires constant interest and learning: “Brainwork as a craft with a tact.”
Everyone likes to draw. A core of our cultural history is drawing, decorating, explaining, illustrating: to name just a few: representative house walls, church painting, writing as a form of drawing in books, researched maps, discovering flora and fauna, inviting film posters, political announcements, the first tourism advertisements, cartoons such as Mickey Mouse, and always: commissioned art
We build on commissioned art and make people's need for visual communication our focus. We support visual communication with illustration and animation. The development of photography pushed illustration out of the spotlight for many years: however, the trend towards valuing craftsmanship has given illustration a new place. We learned to read with pictures. Illustrators bring content to life, capture messages and needs in images, develop key visuals to appeal to consumers. Lines, composition and colors provide the impetus to delve into topics and awaken needs.
Illustrators are required to have a wide range of skills: anyone can knit socks quickly, but you need continuous practice to make a nice cable sweater. Being an illustrator is a calling. A job that is often underestimated by clients in terms of the effort, time intensity and personal commitment it requires, and at the same time unmistakably brings life to the appearance of a product or brand.
Our pool includes illustrators, animation studios, concept designers, copywriters and graphic designers who we put together according to the client's brief, individually or as a team. The carolineseidler.com office provides advice, cost and time planning and project management.
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