Education
1997 graduated from Vilnius Secondary School No.35
1994 - 1996 Private Design School Vilnius, Lithuania
1997 - 2001 Vilnius Art Academy, Design Department (bachelor’s degree)
2002 - 2003 The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Type and Media (Master’s degree)
Work experience
1999 - 2000 graphic designer in publishing house BALTOJI ARKA
2001 - 2002 graphic designer in advertising agency BRAND SELLERS DDB
1999 - 2002 freelance designer (Lithuanian Student Organization, Gallery MECCA OF ART)
2003 october - 2004 may work in graphic design studio NLXL
2003 – till now owner of the studio Ilegal. Different freelance works in The Netherlands (Studio Dumbar, Barlock)
Participated workshops, seminars
2001 Workshop LITHUANIAN SOUVENIRS
held by teatchers from the Rietveld Academy (Lithuania, Vilnius)
2001 Creative Training IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE
organized by DDB Worldwide (Estonia, Tartu)
2001 Caligraphy workshop held by D. Neunschwander (Lithuania, Klaipeda)
2002 Outdoor seminar OPEN SPACES by David Bernstein (Estonia, Tallin)
2002 International student workshop of Graphic Design EAST MEETS WEST by ICOGRADA in Brno (Chech Republic)
2003 Type conference Atypi in Rome
Organised/curated/lectured workshops, conferences
2004 Organizing and lecturing workshop „Type and image in advertising. Type as a concept?“ for advertising agency Adell Saatchi& Saatchi in Lithuania. together with Diego Mier Teran
2004 Den Helder Art Festival „Helder Gekaapt“, Recycling workshops together with Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes
2004 Experiments for playing objects with Pascaline Myannai at The Hague's CULTUURNACHT/Millegomme
2005 Car Tyre T-shirt printing workshop at TODAYSART in cooperation with Millegomme, Karen Mientjes, Peter Zuidewijk.
2006 Organizing and lecturing workshop ‚Lettering and logo design’ in Vilnius Art Academy.
2004 Workshop: „Type and image in advertising. Type as a concept?“ for advertising agency Adell Saatchi&Saatchi in Lithuania. (Invited to lecture together with Diego Mier y Teran)
2006 Workshop: ‚24 magazine’. Johannesburg, South Africa (Organizing and lecturing)
2006 Workshop: ‚Lettering and logo design’ in Vilnius Art Academy, Lithuania. (Organizing and lecturing)
2007 Perfomance: car tyre t-shirt printing in Contemporary
Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania
2007 Workshop: „Food for inspiration“ Vilnius, Lithuania. (Invited to lecture)
2007 Conference: 2 day long graphic design conference Diagnosis: Dutch Design. 10 speakers where invited from Netherlands in order to share their experience and ideas with lithuanian professionals and students. Vilnius, Lithuania (organizing and curating)
2007 Workshop ‘Lithuanian simbols’ held by Peter Zuiderwijk and Karen Mientjes (curating)
2008 Workshop with dutch and lithuanian students for lithuanian cultural platform KULTFLUX Vilnius, Lithuania. (Invited to lecture)
2008 Workshop for Wiljem de Koning academie students. ‘Shop lettering’.
Languages
Lithuanian, English, Russian, Dutch in process
Activities
Running the project TYRE – PRINT. Printing with the car tyres on different medium, like t-shirts, sheats, walpapers. Graphic design in low-tech. www.guzler.nl
Constantly invited artist in a CASCOLAND project.
Initiated project about Lithuanian canteens. “Revival of dying tradition using visual comunication." www.kompotas.lt
Exhibitions
2001 exhibition of results in workshop LITHUANIAN SOUVENIRS
2001 Graduation show Vilnius Art Academy
2003 graduation show KABK.
2005 European New Year. exposed poster serie, concept for promoting city Brno.
2005 Artoteek Schiedam and Kunstgalerie 300%. ZOET movies.
2006 Vilnius Art Academy, exhibition of S.African
lettering project
2009 april STROOM Den Haag. NAMBAWAN.
Due exhibition together with Jan Korbes.
2009 october. URBAN STORIES The X Baltic Triennial
of International Art, Vilnius 2009. Expo of the project
KOMPOTAS.
2009 october. Gallery Liefhertje en Grote Witte Reus.
Solo expo of the project KOMPOTAS.
Awards
2001 2nd prize for TAXX FREE SINGAPORE poster.
2001 1st prize in IV Kyiv International Advertising Festival |