Biography/Work Experience

Ivan Kashlakov is a web and graphic designer based in Sofia, Bulgaria at eDesign Interactive. At the moment works in the field of UI, web and digital. He loves to travel and create posters and paintings in his free time and to experiment with visual materials. Took part in 130 group international exhibitions around the world with posters, paintings and drawings in South Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, USA, Dubai, Peru, Iran, Mexico, Ecuador, Bulgaria and other countries.

Philosophy on Work

One of the main things which every man searches in his life is his own identity. I don know if it’s accidental or fate, like some people, like to say, but self-expressing became my way of living. Everything is always evolving. Each work shows a different side of me and only the manner of thinking is my guide. For me, there is no limit for the way to express myself and that is why I travel all the time somewhere in the river of imagination...I search in the intimate and poetic corners of my mind. I get inspired by the small, ordinary things in life. Through my art, I seal a moment in eternity. So my soul rests in the connection between nature and object. My way of showing things is with classical influence and a lot of expressive motion. The main goal is seeing the truth of life which we breed every day but forget from time to time…

Professional Specialties

Web and Graphic Design, Brand Design, UX, UI, Poster Design

Graphis Appearances

Graphis Poster Annual 2021

Awards

Communication Art’s Award of Excellence in the 11th 2021 Typography Competition. Silver Award in category D "Animated" - among the 26 winning posters from 11396 posters received for the Ecuador Poster Bienal 2020 Selected in the Posterists in the World Competition 2019 for achievement in poster design, out of 14 956 posters, 200 were selected and were displayed at the Machu Picchu Museum in Peru Juror's Choice CO Winner, CO|Show 2019, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado, December 6, 2019 - January 31, 2020 Excellent Design Award of the 19th International Invitation Exhibition on "Hangul and Brand Design" / “Typo and Brand Design” 2019 The prize for Young Author (not older than 35) A bronze plaque by Georgi Chapkanov in memory of the eminent Bulgarian artist AssenStareyshinski at the Ninth International Triennial of Stage Poster– Sofia 2019 Оne of the 80 selected finalists from 1947 artists of all over the world from 99 countries in Art Olympia 2019 Tokyo, Japan with exhibited painting in Tokyo Metropolitan Museum. Silver Award in category “Professional Design” in the contest SSL international design competition 2019, organized by United Design Alliance (2019) Silver Award in the category “Environmental Awareness Poster” in the contest Poster Design Competition 2019, organized by United Design Alliance (2019) Bronze Award in category "Commercial Poster Design" in the contest Poster Design Competition 2018, organized by United Design Alliance (2018) Silver Award in category "Signs - students" for a system of communication of icons/pictograms for a theater, in the contest "Signs, symbols and logos" 2018, organized by United Designs Alliance (2018) Special award of Tetiana Ivanenko - a member of the international jury of PANGRAM 2017 2nd International student Competition of Font & Calligraphy (2017) National prize “Student of the year”2016 for high accomplishments in section ”Arts” (2016) One of the awards in the Third International Student Biennial Drawing 2016 and selected work for the museum of the National Academy of Arts Sofia (2016) Award of Department "DRAWING" in the XIII Interacademic contest DRAWING 2016 and selected work for the museum of the National Academy of Arts Sofia (2016) One of the winners in Typography Day 2016 Bangalore, India with experimental typography posters (2016) First place in the poster contest Sound Trap in Incubator, Plovdiv (2015) First place in the section Painting for young artists organized in the International art and craft fair “Bulgarica“ and participation in the gallery House of Masters (2015) First place in the painting portrait contest for Dobri Chintulov in the Municipality Sliven (2012) Third place in the contest Rotary club Old Sliven (2011)

Graphis Awards

Two Silver Awards in Graphis Poster Annual 2021; Two Silver Awards Graphis Poster Annual 2022; Gold Award and Two Silver Awards in Graphis Protest Posters 2

Proudest Achievements

Communication Art’s Award of Excellence in the 11th 2021 Typography Competition. Silver Award in category D "Animated" - among the 26 winning posters from 11396 posters received for the Ecuador Poster Bienal 2020 The prize for Young Author (not older than 35) A bronze plaque by Georgi Chapkanov in memory of the eminent Bulgarian artist AssenStareyshinski at the Ninth International Triennial of Stage Poster– Sofia 2019

Featured In:

Museum/Gallery Collections

https://retroavangarda.com/gallery-of-friends/albums/Ivan_Kashlakov/

Museum/Gallery Collections

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design

Education

Graduated from the National High School of Art ”Dimitar Dobrovich” in Sliven the specialty “Advertising Graphics”(2012); National Academy of Arts, Sofia in the Bachelor specialty “Poster and visual communication“(2016); Master’s program “Visual communication“(2018)

Other

Honorary member of China Europe International Design Culture Association (CEIDA)

Affiliations

Executive Director in United Desing Alliance (UDA)

Area of Expertise

Web Design, Graphic Design, UX, Branding, Poster Design, Art

Hobbies / Freetime

Painting and drawing, experimenting with materials.