Contacts:
yakunova.t@gmail.com
Bio:
Tania Yakunova is Ukrainian award-winning illustrator and educator currently based in London, UK.
Her dominate interest lays in minimalistic jet expressive art with a hint of surrealism and amusing characters. She started her artistic journey in 2014 and has been working on projects from around the world since then. Her field of work spreads from commercial, advertising and branding illustration to book, editorial and internationally exhibited personal artworks.
She finds her inspiration in avant-garde art and design of the 20 century and brings it’s perspective it to modern illustration. Her works recognised by bold composition, rhythm and excellent work with forms and colours.
She added ceramic sculpture to her art practice as new media lately.
Clients: Apple, Google, Facebook, Coca-Cola, Visa Gold, Yves Rocher, Upwork, Penguin Random House, The Washington Post
Awards and recognition:
The Art of Sketchbook, Sandu Publishing 2019, China
World Illustration Awards 2020, Shortlist | Design and Packaging
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.17 - Merit Award |Packaging, 2020
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.17 - Merit Award |Self-promotion, 2020
Communication Arts Illustration Competition, Winner: 2020 Illustration Annual
Aplied Arts Awards 2020, Winner in two categories (Calendar Illustration, Gallery Illustration)
iJungle Illustration Awards 2019 – Gold Medal| |Commercial
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.16 – Merit Award |Books and covers, 2019
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.16 – Merit Award |Corporate communications, 2019
Book Illustration Competition 2019 by House of Illustration And Folio Society – Finalist (shortlist)
Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2019, shortlist
Cheltenham Illustration Awards, Finalist, Published in Annual 2019
Ukrainian design the very best of 2019 – Best of Books design and illustration
Ukrainian design the very best of 2019 – Best of Illustration & Photograph
Ukrainian design the very best of 2019 – Best of Print & Posters design
iJungle Illustration Awards 2018 – Gold Medal| Commercial,
iJungle Illustration Awards 2018 – Merit Award| Self-promotion
Ukrainian Design The Very Best Of 2018 – Best of Poster Design
Ukrainian Design The Very Best Of 2018 – Best of Student Work
ADC*UA 2014 – Silver in illustration
Slanted #34, Europe, Slanted Publishing, 2019, Deutschland
Exhibitions:
Habitat (group exhibition), Italy, Empoli May 2019, Macerata September 2019
All together Now. Tales of Unity (group exhibition from Cheltenham Illustration Awards and University of Gloucestershire) Stroud, UK - November-December, 2019
5x5 Group Exhibition by Pictoric Illustration Group, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019
Power In Numbers Exhibition at Nucleus Portland, OR, USA, February-May, 2020
Contacts:
yakunova.t@gmail.com
Bio:
Tania Yakunova is Ukrainian award-winning illustrator and educator currently based in London, UK.
Her dominate interest lays in minimalistic jet expressive art with a hint of surrealism and amusing characters. She started her artistic journey in 2014 and has been working on projects from around the world since then. Her field of work spreads from commercial, advertising and branding illustration to book, editorial and internationally exhibited personal artworks.
She finds her inspiration in avant-garde art and design of the 20 century and brings it’s perspective it to modern illustration. Her works recognised by bold composition, rhythm and excellent work with forms and colours.
She added ceramic sculpture to her art practice as new media lately.
Clients: Apple, Google, Facebook, Coca-Cola, Visa Gold, Yves Rocher, Upwork, Penguin Random House, The Washington Post
Awards and recognition:
The Art of Sketchbook, Sandu Publishing 2019, China
World Illustration Awards 2020, Shortlist | Design and Packaging
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.17 - Merit Award |Packaging, 2020
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.17 - Merit Award |Self-promotion, 2020
Communication Arts Illustration Competition, Winner: 2020 Illustration Annual
Aplied Arts Awards 2020, Winner in two categories (Calendar Illustration, Gallery Illustration)
iJungle Illustration Awards 2019 – Gold Medal| |Commercial
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.16 – Merit Award |Books and covers, 2019
3x3 Mag Illustration Annual No.16 – Merit Award |Corporate communications, 2019
Book Illustration Competition 2019 by House of Illustration And Folio Society – Finalist (shortlist)
Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2019, shortlist
Cheltenham Illustration Awards, Finalist, Published in Annual 2019
Ukrainian design the very best of 2019 – Best of Books design and illustration
Ukrainian design the very best of 2019 – Best of Illustration & Photograph
Ukrainian design the very best of 2019 – Best of Print & Posters design
iJungle Illustration Awards 2018 – Gold Medal| Commercial,
iJungle Illustration Awards 2018 – Merit Award| Self-promotion
Ukrainian Design The Very Best Of 2018 – Best of Poster Design
Ukrainian Design The Very Best Of 2018 – Best of Student Work
ADC*UA 2014 – Silver in illustration
Slanted #34, Europe, Slanted Publishing, 2019, Deutschland
Exhibitions:
Habitat (group exhibition), Italy, Empoli May 2019, Macerata September 2019
All together Now. Tales of Unity (group exhibition from Cheltenham Illustration Awards and University of Gloucestershire) Stroud, UK - November-December, 2019
5x5 Group Exhibition by Pictoric Illustration Group, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2019
Power In Numbers Exhibition at Nucleus Portland, OR, USA, February-May, 2020