About

I’m Qris, an art director and designer based in Tbilisi.

I trained as a graphic designer at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts and have spent 18 years moving across almost every format design lives in: corporate identity, print production, event visuals, projection mapping, animation, museum exhibitions and product brands. Today I bring all of it to one job: building brands that look coherent, speak clearly and work everywhere they show up.

Some clients keep me as an ongoing design partner: one YC startup and I have worked together for three years. Others bring me in to lead one big thing: for a stadium conference I led a team of 18 designers from concept to opening day.

Qris, illustrated portrait
Battle-tested.
HIGH-LVL
Passive skillDeadline-proof
TraitDetail-obsessed
300+projects, from a dog trainer’s logo to a stadium conference
7M+visitors a year at the VDNKh pavilion I designed for
18designers led on one event
#8Product of the Day on Product Hunt, for a Wingback launch

The path

  1. 2008–10
    Corporate designIdentity, rebranding and print for large companies. Where I learned that design is about clarity and structure, not only visuals.
  2. 2011–15
    Independent event designerEvent identities and visual systems for presentations, exhibitions and branded live formats for Unilever, PepsiCo, Adidas Originals and Mercedes Fashion Week.
  3. 2011–14
    My own print shopThe full production cycle, from finding clients to creasing invitations. Hands-on knowledge of how a screen file becomes a physical object.
  4. 2015 →
    Illustration & motionProjection mapping and festival visuals, then styleframes, storyboards and visual development for animated and explainer videos.
  5. 2019–22
    Creative director, museumsInteractive stands, touchscreen UI and visitor journeys for the Lukoil Pavilion at VDNKh (7M+ visitors a year), the GOZNAK Money Museum, the Gazprom Museum in Tomsk, the Murmansk Port Museum and the Kargopol Museum.
  6. 2021
    TeachingLaunched the Perfext Class poster workshop and Tipo Camp, a creative campus for typography lovers; mentoring young designers.
  7. 2022 →
    Brand developer & design partnerRetainer and project work with YC startups, tech companies, creative studios and established brands: brand systems from strategy to execution.

Education & training

Qualified

  • MSUPA, MoscowBA in Graphic Design: illustration, printmaking, print design, typography.
  • Sanoma Independent MediaInternship: design and layout of Cosmopolitan magazine.
  • MSUPA × Kingston UniversityArt & creative intensive with practitioners from London.
  • IKRA Innovation & Creative SchoolIdea generation, CRAFT brand strategy method, advertising concepts.
  • Immersive screenwritingCourse on narrative for immersive formats.
  • EYES PlatformProject management, ethical marketing, marketing strategy.

Skillset

Brand identityDesign systems & brandbooksPositioning & UVPPitch decksKey visualsVisitor & customer journeyStorytelling frameworksExplainers: scripts + keyframesSocial media kitsPrint & prepressInteractive scriptsDesignOps

How I work

01

One person, full picture

You get one head that holds the brand, the decks, the screens and the venue, so nothing falls between contractors.

02

Systems, not one-offs

I build visual rules your team can keep using after I’m gone: grids, type, illustration kits, templates.

03

Spaces are media too

A stage, a booth or a hallway is a touchpoint. I design how people move through it and what they remember.

04

I own the result

From the first sketch to the opening night, I stay until it’s live, printed and working.