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Pavlo B.

Kyiv, Ukraine

$55/hr
5.0
2 jobs

Brand Designer, Art Director & Creative Strategist for Consumer Brands With 20+ years of experience, I help brands create clear, visually distinctive identities and communication systems across packaging, digital, and retail environments. My work focuses on branding, packaging design, visual identity systems, and creative direction for beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and consumer product brands. I combine strategic thinking with a strong visual approach inspired by European minimalist design — clean typography, refined composition, and clear brand hierarchy. I work with startups, growing businesses, and established companies to develop: • Brand Identity & Logo Systems • Packaging & Label Design • Creative Direction • Naming & Brand Positioning • Art Direction for Campaigns & Visual Communication • AI-powered Visual Production My background includes collaboration with cultural institutions, nonprofits, startups, and commercial brands across international and local markets. Selected projects have been featured and awarded on Behance. I value thoughtful collaboration, clear communication, and design systems that are both aesthetically strong and commercially effective.

  • Landing Page
  • Web Design
  • Logo Design
  • 2D Art
  • Graphic Design
  • Logo Animation
  • Print Design
  • Corporate Brand Identity
  • Maxon Cinema 4D
Oksana B.

Kyiv, Ukraine

$35/hr
5.0
91 jobs

Design backed by marketing background, creativity, and real client work: ☕️ 7+ years in graphic design and content creation 🤝 Collaborated with 30+ clients across the US, Europe, and the UK 💿 Experienced in the tech, innovation, and B2B areas. I design for brands with ambition, big ideas, and world-changing plans. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫: ✅ Social media visuals Posts, carousels, stories, feeds, updates, and thought leadership content for personal branding ✅ Ad graphics Creatives adapted for all platforms (Meta Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Google Ads, Reddit, X) and made for conversion ✅ Visual systems in Figma A template batch designed for long-term use (typically by non-design teams): 6, 12, 20, 60, or 90 templates. Canva or Illustrator are also possible ✅ Brand identity Color scheme, typography rules, hierarchy, logo usage, photo usage, and recognizable brand elements – all your visual branding ✅ Marketing collateral Flyers, brochures, banners, email headers, simple landing pages & print materials. 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐈 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧: SaaS Apps B2B services AI Healthtech Fintech Edtech Consulting Mental Health Psychology Culture Education, and beyond. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭: → Design that supports your marketing direction, sales effort, and your funnel → Clarity and rhythm. I turn abstract, complex ideas into relatable stories → Custom design. Whether you're a 'fun' or 'serious' brand, I get your type. 💬 Drop me a message with a short description of what you need, and I’ll reply with how I would approach that. 1. You send your brief, goal, or problem you’re solving 2. I respond with ideas and a recommended approach 3. If it fits, we define the scope, budget, and timeline, and we move forward. Wanna talk? Let's set up a 15-minute chat then!

  • Graphic Design
  • Branding
  • Advertising Design
  • Social Media Design
  • Template Design
  • Figma
  • Canva
  • Banner Ad Design
  • Brand Identity
  • LinkedIn Marketing
  • Instagram Marketing
  • Social Media Carousel
  • Social Media Content
  • Visual Design
  • Rebranding
  • Brand Design
  • Personal Branding
  • Presentation Design
  • Tech & IT
  • B2B Marketing
Nikolay D.

Kyiv, Ukraine

$30/hr
5.0
14 jobs

We will rank your website to the TOP 5 positions in Google in 2-3 months and increase your sales by 300% Hi, I'm Nikolay Doroshenko, and I'm a founder of the agency DVACOM, the expert in SEO. Since 2004, our team has been professionally engaged in SEO in organic search results in Google. Focusing only on SEO and vast experience since 2004 have allowed us to become true professionals, achieving fantastic results for our clients. In Ukraine, we are recognized as one of the best SEO agencies, being awarded as the leader of the branch. We have created a unique SEO product «GROWTH HACKING SEO» to achieve maximum sales growth in the first months of SEO promotion: • Fast results We have collected tools that are successfully used by well-known world companies. Thanks to this, in just 2-3 months we bring websites to the TOP-10 of Google. • Growth by 300% Increased sales to our clients by at least 300%. • Constant growth of clients The uniqueness of innovative SEO is that the number of clients is getting more and more every month. If you are looking for real professionals in SEO, contact us, we will take your business to the next level! Investments in SEO promotion must pay off quickly and be minimal - this is one of the main goals we set when developing the STRATEGY: • We do not promote a website "blindly", as many begin to promote without marketing research . When a website is blindly promoted, the budget is made "by eye". And the website promotion looks like a roulette game. • Having provided marketing research and studied you and your niche in detail, we fully see what investments are needed. Thus, we eliminate inefficient costs that can significantly reduce the budget. • Our main goal is to bring customers as quickly as possible, as much as possible and with minimal investment. In fact, a customized marketing strategy can reduce investment in website promotion by three times. WE ARE WORKING ON YOUR REPUTATION IN SEARCH ENGINES It is impossible to build a business online without a positive reputation. Usually, satisfied customers do not leave positive reviews. So, reviews are left only by those who were not completely satisfied for some reason. As a result, a negative impression can be made even about the most professional company. For this reason, we manage the online reputation of our customers - we displace negative information from search engines, increase the visibility of the positive information that in turn greatly affects sales.

  • SEO Strategy
  • Local SEO
  • On-Page SEO
  • SEO Keyword Research
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • SEO Audit
  • SEO Backlinking
  • SEO Performance
  • All in One SEO
  • Market Analysis
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Search Engine Marketing Strategy
  • Digital Marketing Strategy
  • Market Research
Yehor D.

Kyiv, Ukraine

$25/hr
5.0
3 jobs

Do you need a high-skilled illustrator or graphic designer? For ongoing huge projects or simple tasks? Congratulations, you found me! I work with brands, studios and independent artists whose visual identity, graphic design or illustration system is not delivering expected results. Over the past years I have built and contributed to 30+ projects across industries, including cultural institutions, music artists, festivals, editorial platforms, fashion, wellness, digital brands and independent creative initiatives. Many graphic design systems and illustration-based identities look visually strong, but fail at structure level. The issue is not aesthetics alone. It is a combination of graphic design structure, brand design logic, illustration system consistency and communication architecture. As a graphic designer, brand designer and illustrator, I work across the full visual system — not isolated visuals. I rebuild how graphic design, illustration and brand identity interact inside a single coherent system. Today I work on: - graphic design systems - poster - illustration - illustration-driven brand identities - visual identity and brand design - editorial and book design - music cover illustration - social media design systems - conceptual illustration work - logo and brand identity design - visual communication systems - advertising design Previously, I collaborated with studios and independent teams as a graphic designer and illustrator, working on both commercial and cultural projects, including music, editorial and brand-driven visual systems. My work is focused on combining graphic design, illustration and brand strategy into a single structured system that supports clarity, recognition and conversion. Typical results after restructuring a visual system (graphic design + illustration + brand identity): - stronger brand recognition across platforms - improved visual consistency across social media and editorial output - clearer communication through graphic design systems - more coherent illustration language across campaigns - better audience engagement and conversion performance I work across both graphic design execution and illustration development, ensuring that every visual decision supports the larger brand system. Typical requests I handle as a graphic designer / illustrator / brand designer include: - full brand identity design - graphic design system rebuild - illustration system development - editorial design and book layouts - music artwork and album cover illustration - social media graphic design systems - visual identity redesign - logo and brand system creation - conceptual illustration development - campaign and poster design Full-cycle process for every graphic design + illustration system includes: - visual research & competitor analysis - concept and brand positioning - graphic design system architecture - illustration style definition - visual identity development - layout and typography system - social media design system setup - editorial / print adaptation - final system consistency check Because of my background in graphic design, illustration and brand systems, I never separate visuals from structure. A purely visual designer may focus on aesthetics only. A graphic designer and illustrator working as a system designer focuses on scalability, consistency and communication clarity. Why working with me is effective: - I define the full graphic design + illustration system - I align brand identity with visual communication goals - I prevent structural inconsistencies in design systems - I connect illustration, branding and layout into one language - I ensure scalability across print, digital and social media During each project, I execute a full visual system cycle: - research - concept development - graphic design system creation - illustration development - brand identity structuring - application across platforms - optimization for consistency Lasting effect of correct graphic design + illustration system design: - brand remains visually consistent - illustration language stays unified - graphic design scales across platforms - identity becomes recognizable and structured - visual communication becomes stable and predictable I am not just a graphic designer or illustrator. I build visual systems, brand identities and illustration frameworks that function as scalable communication structures.

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Illustration
  • Character Illustration
  • Graphic Design
  • Concept Artistry
  • Album Cover Design
  • Design Thinking
  • 2D Design
  • Branding
  • 2D Animation
  • Art Direction
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Digital Art
  • Digital Illustration
  • Book Cover
  • Design Theory
  • Logo Design
  • Brand Design
Anna P.

Kyiv, Ukraine

$45/hr
4.9
52 jobs

👋 I’m Anna — Senior Brand Identity Designer & Strategist with 11+ years of experience across branding, visual systems, packaging, food branding, and art direction. I don’t create “cool logos” - I create timeless brands. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ In 2019, I stepped away from Upwork — not to disappear, but to grow. For the next several years, I worked as an Art Director at TBWA — one of the world's top creative agencies, leading international creative production for McDonald's Ukraine: 🍔 campaigns 📦 packaging design 🎬 TV commercials 📱 social campaigns 🎨 large-scale visual communication systems Now I’m back. Sharper. Stronger. More strategic than ever. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ You never get a second chance at a first impression. Before a customer tries your product, reads your website, or walks through your door — they’ve already decided. Your visual identity speaks first. And it speaks loudly. The first glance tells people everything: ✦ your quality ✦ your values ✦ your confidence ✦ your place in the market This is why branding is not decoration — it’s the soul of your business, translated into form, color, typography, and feeling. Long before a single word is spoken. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 To me, branding is a journey into the heart of a business. Who are you? Where are you going? Why do you exist? Who are you for? What do you stand for? What makes you impossible to ignore? Only after we find those answers — do we build what the world sees. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ WHAT I BUILD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Brand Identity & Visual Systems ✦ Logo & Typography Design ✦ Packaging & Food Brand Design ✦ Rebranding & Brand Refresh ✦ Brand Guidelines ✦ Art Direction & Creative Strategy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💎 WHAT MAKES MY WORK DIFFERENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Strategy before aesthetics — always ✔ Timeless direction instead of trend-chasing ✔ Agency-level quality without agency chaos ✔ Strong typography & premium visual composition ✔ Structured process & clear communication ✔ Real experience with packaging, food branding & national campaigns ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 WHO I WORK WITH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Founders, lifestyle brands, hospitality, beauty, food & beverage, fashion, and modern startups that understand one thing: A strong brand is not an expense. It’s one of the most valuable investments your business can make. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Ready to build a brand people remember? ✉️ Send me a message Let’s find the soul of your brand — together.

  • Packaging Design
  • Logo Design
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Label & Packaging Design
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Lettering
  • Graphic Design
  • Digital Design
  • Drawing
  • Advertising
  • Corporate Brand Identity
  • Art Direction
  • Figma
  • Canva
  • Google Slides
  • Logo
  • Branding
  • Brand Strategy
  • Brand Identity & Guidelines
  • Midjourney AI
Constant K.

Kyiv, Ukraine

$27/hr
5.0
48 jobs

I'm a creative Video Editor, Motion Graphics Designer, and Creative Director helping SaaS companies, AI startups, founders, YouTube creators and education brands turn complex ideas into clear, engaging videos. Over 10+ years, I've created 1,000+ videos for 100+ startups and companies, including Y Combinator-backed projects. My work combines Video Editing, Motion Graphics, Animation, storytelling, creative development, sound design, and color grading. I don't see Video Editing as simply cutting footage together. My role is to understand what you need to communicate, find the strongest story, and build a video that helps the idea launch, explain, educate, sell, or spread. 🎯 WHAT I BRING 1,000+ videos for SaaS, AI startups, education, YouTube, advertising, and branded content 100+ startups and companies supported with Video Editing, Motion Graphics, and creative development 200+ YouTube videos built around storytelling, pacing, audience retention, and long-term views 40+ educational courses that turn complex knowledge into clear, engaging content Around 50% returning-client rate - I aim to become a long-term creative partner, not just another freelance Video Editor 🎬 VIDEO EDITING SERVICES ∿ Video Editing & Post-Production - raw footage, talking heads, interviews, video podcasts, tutorials, webinars, VSLs, video ads, and branded content ∿ SaaS Video & Startup Video Production - product videos, product demos, launch videos, app videos, UI animation, and explainer videos ∿ YouTube Video Editing - long-form videos, educational content, tutorials, talking-head videos, pacing, retention, and viewer engagement ∿ Motion Graphics & Animation - kinetic typography, UI/UX animation, infographics, diagrams, compositing, and visual effects ∿ Creative Direction & Concept Development - storytelling structure, references, visual language, storyboards, and creative approach ∿ Video Strategy & Content Strategy - building a repeatable video system instead of disconnected pieces of content ∿ Color Grading & Sound Design - creating a polished visual and sonic experience with the right emotional tone ∿ Social Media Video Editing - short-form content, ads, reels, platform versions, captions, and cutdowns 💡 HOW I TURN AN IDEA INTO A VIDEO A typical project may begin with a rough script, a founder interview, a product recording, or simply an idea that is difficult to explain. First, I identify the core message: Who is the audience? What problem does the product solve? What should viewers understand, feel, or do? Then I shape the material into a story. I refine the script, find the hook, remove distractions, structure the narrative, and define the visual language. Finally, I bring the story to life through Video Editing, Motion Graphics, Animation, sound design, color grading, and precise pacing. The result is not just a polished video - it is a clear message designed for a specific audience and goal. I can work from a finished script and organized footage, or join earlier when the concept is still unclear. In both cases, I take ownership of the creative problem, not only the timeline. 🚀 WHAT I CREATE • AI startup launch videos • SaaS product videos • Product demos and app videos • Explainer videos • YouTube videos • Educational videos and online courses • VSLs and video ads • Talking-head and interview content • Video podcasts • Motion Graphics and Animation • Social media videos • Corporate and branded videos 🎨 MY CREATIVE PROCESS Discovery - goals, audience, message, platform, and scope Research - references, competitors, visual language, and creative direction Concept - script refinement, structure, storyboard, and ideation Story Cut - narrative, pacing, selects, and first Video Edit Polish - Motion Graphics, Animation, sound design, color grading, captions, and final delivery Each stage is reviewed before moving forward. This keeps feedback focused, saves time, and makes sure we are improving the right part of the video. When needed, I can also prepare platform-specific formats and advise on thumbnails, titles, publishing, and content strategy. 📌 WHY CLIENTS HIRE ME You get more than technical Video Editing. You get a creative partner who can look at the full communication problem, make complex information easy to understand, and carry the project from an early idea to final delivery. If you already know what you need, send me the script and footage. If you only have an idea, a product, or a message that needs to be explained, that works too. I can turn it into a concept, a story, and a video built to do its job. 💬 Send me your idea, references, script, or raw footage - even if it's rough. Let's make it clear, engaging, and worth watching.

  • Video Editing
  • Creative Direction
  • Storytelling
  • Motion Graphics
  • Color Grading
  • Video Production
  • Video Post-Editing
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Explainer Video
  • Video Sales Letter
  • YouTube Video
  • Corporate Video
  • Film Editing
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Video Commercial
  • Podcast Editing
  • Video Marketing
  • Storyboard
  • Screencasting

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