Alexander Korotich | |
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| Born | (1960-05-11)May 11, 1960 (age 65) |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, illustrator, designer |
| Website | https://korotich.design/ |
Alexander Vladimirovich Korotich (Russian:Александр Владимирович Коротич; born 11 May 1960) is a Russian artist, designer, writer and teacher. He is a leading designer of Channel One, and art director of the projectZuza. A daily fairy tale for children.
Alexander Korotich was born on 11 May 1960 inYekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk),[1] son of Vladimir Ivanovich Korotich, professor ofmetallurgy at theUral State Technical University, and Margarita Vasilievna Korotich, a teacher and translator. In 1977, after graduating from secondary school No. 36, Korotich entered the Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture (now theUral State University of Architecture and Art), from which he graduated with honours in 1984.[1] He then taught design at the university's department ofindustrial architecture, and in 1986 he entered full-time graduate school at theMoscow Architectural Institute, specializing in Theory and History of Architecture. In 1989 he completed his PhD thesisThe Theme of Function in Architecture. He returned to the Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture's department of drawing as an associate professor. In 1995, he created the Book Design department within the institute.[1]
In the 1980s, as a student, he made a cycle ofscraperboard illustrations forJ. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings,[2] which in 1990 was awarded a diploma of the All-Russian competition of works for children.[1][3] Later he created illustrations for a collection of Tolkien's fairy tales (includingFarmer Giles of Ham andSmith of Wootton Major) and poems.[1][2]He prepared illustrations for many books, including works byJanusz Korczak, and a book of stories byC. S. Lewis, published in Russia.[3]
In 1981, after holding the first rock music festival in the Urals, Korotich established friendly relations with the poetIlya Kormiltsev. This led to a unique design for magnetic albums of the group Urfin Juice (also spelt "Urfin Dzhus" and "Oorfene Deuce").[4][5]
In 1992,Vyacheslav Butusov, a friend from his student days, invited him to take part in the design of the albumForeign Land by the groupNautilus Pompilius, a successor to Urfin Juice.[5]
In 1998, Korotich was invited by Semyon Levin, head of the NTV-Design company, to develop a new design concept for theNTV channel, which in 1999 was awarded the National TEFI Award in the “Television Design” category. Since 2008, Korotich has been working as a leading designer in the ORT-design department of the First Channel television company.[1]
Since 2006, Korotich has been working on theZuza fairy tale series for preschoolers, where he writes both prose and poetry, and creates the illustrations.[1] The romance of the Ural mining legends inspired him to create his own quasi-historical epicTales of the Mountain-Fish, which became the first book created using thesamizdat Internet service “Ridero”.[6]
In 2006 he moved to Moscow to become a professor at the Moscow Architectural Institute.[3] Among the courses he has run was one on creative thinking with Inna Albertovna Salikhova.[7]
Cover of the vinyl record "Zuza. Songs and Dances" of the children's fairy-tale series "Zuza".
The exhibition presents individual illustrations for "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien, created by artist Alexander Korotich from the second half of the 1980s until mid-1997, when the folder with most of the sheets was lost, as well as a number of illustrations for the bookJ. R. R. Tolkien. Fairy tales by the publishing house "Ural market", released in 1993.
The design of the magnetic album of the Urfin Juice group, 1982. Designer and artist Alexander Korotich.
The author of the texts is Ilya Kormiltsev. Alexander Korotich is an artist who designed all the magnetoalbums of the collective.
The first published book was "The Legend of the Mountain-Fish" by Alexander Korotich on the same day. Rideró
