Alexander Korotich Explained

Alexander Korotich
Birth Date:11 May 1960
Birth Place:Yekaterinburg
Occupation:Artist, illustrator, designer
Website:https://korotich.design/

Alexander Vladimirovich Korotich (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 project Zuza. A daily fairy tale for children.

Biography

Early life

Alexander Korotich was born on 11 May 1960 in Yekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk),[1] son of Vladimir Ivanovich Korotich, professor of metallurgy at the Ural 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 the Ural State University of Architecture and Art), from which he graduated with honours in 1984.[1] He then taught design at the university's department of industrial architecture, and in 1986 he entered full-time graduate school at the Moscow Architectural Institute, specializing in Theory and History of Architecture. In 1989 he completed his PhD thesis The 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]

Art illustration and design

In the 1980s, as a student, he made a cycle of scraperboard illustrations for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,[2] which in 1990 was awarded a diploma of the All-Russian competition of works for children.[1] Later he created illustrations for a collection of Tolkien's fairy tales (including Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wootton Major) and poems.[1] [2] He prepared illustrations for many books, including works by Janusz Korczak, and a book of stories by C. S. Lewis, published in Russia.[3]

Rock music graphics

In 1981, after holding the first rock music festival in the Urals, Korotich established friendly relations with the poet Ilya Kormiltsev. This led to a unique design for magnetic albums of the group Urfin Juice (also spelt "Urfin Dzhus" and "Oorfene Deuce").[4]

In 1992, Vyacheslav Butusov, a friend from his student days, invited him to take part in the design of the album Foreign Land by the group Nautilus Pompilius, a successor to Urfin Juice.[4]

Television design and video graphics

In 1998, Korotich was invited by Semyon Levin, head of the NTV-Design company, to develop a new design concept for the NTV 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 the Zuza 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 epic Tales of the Mountain-Fish, which became the first book created using the samizdat Internet service “Ridero”.[5]

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.[6]

Bibliography

Discography

Cover of the vinyl record "Zuza. Songs and Dances" of the children's fairy-tale series "Zuza".

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alexander Korotich . Alexander Korotich . 10 September 2023.
  2. Web site: Александр Коротич. Иллюстрации к произведениям Дж. . Russian . Р. Р. Толкина Alexander Korotich. Illustrations for the works of J. R. R. Tolkien . Uraic.ru . 10 September 2023 . 2013 . 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 book J. R. R. Tolkien. Fairy tales by the publishing house "Ural market", released in 1993. . https://web.archive.org/web/20161018172900/http://book.uraic.ru/galereja/vystavki2013/aleksandr_korotich . 18 October 2016 . live.
  3. Web site: Александр Коротич: Чтобы отодвинуть старость, нужно своевременно впасть в детство . Russian . Alexander Korotich: To delay old age, you need to fall back into childhood in a timely manner . Pravmir . 10 September 2023.
  4. Web site: The "Oorfene Deuce" group and its leader . Delachieve . 10 September 2023 . English . The author of the texts is Ilya Kormiltsev. Alexander Korotich is an artist who designed all the magnetoalbums of the collective..
  5. Book: Aliyev . Ibratjon . Vavilova . Ekaterina . Karimov . Boxodir . Thinking and creativity No 1, 2023. International Informational Literary and Popular Magazine . 2023 . Litres . 9785045220415 . https://books.google.com/books?id=4B-nEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT42 . The World of Wonders of Ridero . The first published book was “The Legend of the Mountain-Fish” by Alexander Korotich on the same day. Rideró.
  6. Web site: Развитие творческого мышления. Архитектурный полёт . ru . Development of Creative Thinking. Architectural Flight . ZSFond.ru . 10 September 2023.
  7. Web site: how the tape culture was born and flourished in the USSR – Knife . Fire News Today . 10 September 2023 . 25 June 2023 . The design of the magnetic album of the Urfin Juice group, 1982. Designer and artist Alexander Korotich..

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