Based on the international first-class network of design-blog PingMag, Uleshka keeps adding interesting folks to her address book from design to business, music to sustainability and arts to marketing. She is a natural communicator and believes in personal, authentic contacts which she is happy to update, revive and expand constantly. Just by working on the Pecha Kucha Night Book alone, she was in touch with over 80 international event organizers daily.

Uleshka has been asked to introduce and connect people for a vast variety of projects (e.g. compilation of international designers for books on contemporary design, suggesting speakers for design conferences, activating designers to showcase their work at international design fairs, introducing designers from 14 different countries for a high profile t-shirt competition, gathering speakers for charity events). She is always happy to make use of her unique network for exciting synergies.

Featured contacts and involvement

Pecha Kucha Night
Uleshka wrote the book “Pecha Kucha Night – A Celebration” for KleinDytham architecture and is the official Berlin organizer of the Global Pecha Kucha Day charity movement. Uleshka was involved in the speedy Japanese networking event from the very beginning and is in close contact with its founders KleinDytham. The Pecha Kucha Network currently lists about 400 cities hosting events with passionate speakers worldwide. More…

PingMag
Initiator and chief editor of this bilingual online design magazine, at the time biggest Asian design blog, years of collecting inspirational designers and innovative projects next to revealing beauty of forgotten crafts, international hub for designers from Japan and coming to Japan (e.g. fashion collaboration based on PingMag connections), PingMag also featured the top of Japanese electronic music acts at the PingMag Festival. More…

Gestalten
Uleshka wrote four bestselling books on contemporary design (LosLogos4, Tangible, Vania, Playful Type) for the Berlin based publisher. More…

Hobonichi Itoi Jimushou
Introduced high-profile designers from 14 different countries to the innovative Japanese producer Itoi Jimushou for the T1 t-shirt competition. More…

Design Tide
Moderation of the Pre-Design Tide Pecha Kucha Night at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo in 2006 and presenting at Pecha Kucha X Design Tide, 2007, in addition to annual reports on Tokyo’s biggest design fair. More…

Design Indaba
Suggesting international speakers for their future conferences and writing reports about the exclusive design conference Design Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa. More…

DMY International Design Festival Berlin
Uleshka recommended Japanese designers to be invited to the International Design Festival Berlin. More…

Pictoplasma
Friends with the International Character Design Festival in Berlin. More…

Onedotzero
Close contact to the most important festival for Digital Arts and Moving Image. More…

Anonyme Zeichner – Promoted the Berlin artist initiative in Asia and helped to get more international participants for this original drawing exhibition format. More…

Tokyo Art Beat
Recommended creative personalities and moderated own event for TAB TALK: The inspirational talk from English-Japanese Art and Design portal Tokyo Art Beat. More…

NHK Tokyo Eye- Location scout for hidden venues and local specialties for the international TV program “Tokyo Eye”, NHK (Japan’s biggest broadcasting station). More…

Lohas Sunday on J-Wave – Interview on J-Wave (one of Japan’s most popular radio stations) about sustainable projects and movements in Germany. More…

Worldchanging.com – Uleshka introduces sustainable and innovative design projects to this truly world-changing blog. More…

D&AD
Supporting the non-profit organization in Japan and spreading the word about D&AD’s task to award the most innovative works from creative industries around the globe. More…

German Art Directors’ Club
Interviewed seven of the most influential and renowned Japanese graphic designers at that time about contemporary Japanese design – for “Sushi”, German Art Directors’ Club annual report of young talents. More…

FH Potsdam
Close contact to the researchers of the Interface Design Unit of creative University FH Potsdam. More…

AXIS magazine
Friends with renowned bilingual design magazine AXIS from Tokyo. More…

Nanzuka Gallery
Good relationship to Tokyo’s supreme underground gallery Nanzuka. More…

Tsudaro | Sannenzaka Museum
With her work for Tsudaro, Uleshka tapped into the world of traditional Japanese culture and art collection. Mr. Murata, a director of the Sannenzaka Museum in Kyoto, Japan which holds the world’s largest collection of enthusiastically selected masterpieces of makie lacquerware, cloisonné and metalwork from the late Edo and Meiji periods, is also the driving force behind Tsudaro. Uleshka is his communicator and adviser for a more contemporary and international approach to traditional crafts. More…