A lot of client work meets the brief, but not every project feels worth showing in a personal portfolio, so I decided to take on a test assignment for a Moscow-based studio and create something that was

In 2019, while looking for a project to add to my portfolio, I asked an art director at Faces&Laces studio if he had a client brief I could work with. He sent me a brief for a PDF report on VANS Music Tour 2017. The input was limited to structured text and links to social media photo reports from different cities

The direction was inspired by DIY music zines, street posters, Xerox copies, low-budget print materials, skate culture, and underground gig flyers, so photos from the tour sourced from social media were cut out and layered with paper textures, torn edges, and Xerox-style noise to create a worn photocopy effect

A lot of client work meets the brief, but not every project feels worth showing in a personal portfolio, so I decided to take on a test assignment for a Moscow-based studio and create something that was

In 2019, while looking for a project to add to my portfolio, I asked an art director at Faces&Laces studio if he had a client brief I could work with. He sent me a brief for a PDF report on VANS Music Tour 2017. The input was limited to structured text and links to social media photo reports from different cities

The direction was inspired by DIY music zines, street posters, Xerox copies, low-budget print materials, skate culture, and underground gig flyers, so photos from the tour sourced from social media were cut out and layered with paper textures, torn edges, and Xerox-style noise to create a worn photocopy effect