lettering & illustration
About
The elegant swoosh of the calligrapher’s pen, the expressive swish of the artist’s brush – they come together in harmony in the work of the New York-based illustrator Dina Ruzha. Dina specializes in creating book covers, illustrated maps, editorial illustrations, lettering, and more.
APPROACH
Using digital tools like Procreate, Affinity Designer, Adobe software, and traditional media. Dina's illustrations help brands and magazines connect with customers, make products attractive to the target audience, capturing ideas and emotions to convey a narrative. She is fond of solving clients’ needs via illustrations. Dina works in editorial, publishing and advertising markets.
STYLE
Dina’s artistic voice is bright and colorful, using contrast, sharp shapes and lively linework. The hand of the artist speaks loud and clear through her lettering and painting.
AWARDS
2019 – New York Book Show – First Place – General trade hardcover nonfiction cover
2017 – A' Design Award – Print Media Design – Silver
CLIENTS include Melville House Publishing, Abbeville Press, Safilo Group, NBC, Good Housekeeping, Glorious Sports, Pearson Education, Maif, Meredith Operations Corporation DBA The Foundry, Capital One, Prof. Steinkraus Research Laboratories, Soho Press, Phoenix Magazine, Focus on the Family Magazine, Dallas Observer Magazine, Socrates Communications, &Soul.
COURSES, SEMINARS, AND WORKSHOPS:
2019, From Traditional Cyrillic to Contemporary Cyrillic, Society of Scribes, NYC
2018, From Traditional Cyrillic to Contemporary Cyrillic, Type Directors Club, NYC
2018, The most curious kinds of Cyrillic calligraphy – ligature ornamental script – Vyaz, The TypeLab at Typographics 2018, NYC
2018, Cyrillic Calligraphy, Monotype, NYC
2018, American Typography, Moscow/Russia
2017, Between the cursive script Skoropis, and the Copperplate, School of Calligraphy And Lettering U 0026, Moscow/Russia
EXHIBITIONS:
2021, The Exhibition “Russian Calligraphy: Tradition and Experiment”, Russia
2019, Society of Scribes, NYC
2018, Shenzhen International Industrial Design Week in Futian Shenzhen, China
2018, Hebei Design Center Exhibition in High-Tech Zone Shijiazhuang, China
2018, Hebei Design Week Exhibition in Rongcheng XiongAn New Area, China
2018, Festival of Architecture and Interior Designing Conference in New Delhi, India
2018, Festival of Architecture and Interior Designing Conference in Mumbai, India
2018, Museum of Outstanding Design, Como, Italy,
2018, The Exhibition “Russian Calligraphy: Tradition and Experiment”, Moscow/Russia
2017 The 6th International Exhibition of Calligraphy in the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, Moscow/Russia
2017, The Exhibition “Russian Calligraphy: Tradition and Experiment”, St. Petersburg/Russia
2015 The 5th Anniversary International Exhibition of Calligraphy in the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, Moscow/Russia
2014 International Exhibition of St. Petersburg Association of Artists White Nights, St. Petersburg/Russia
2014 International Exhibition of Calligraphy and Typography Ruthenia, Kiev/Ukraine
COLLECTIONS:
2017, The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, Moscow/Russia
2017, Private Collection, Norway/Oslo
2017, Private Collection, NYC/USA
2016, Private Collection, St. Petersburg/Russia
2015, The Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy, Moscow/Russia
2015, Private Collection, Moscow/Russia
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