Due to Ryotaro Bordini Chikushi’s presentation about his “Liegewiese” (a giant sofa lounge with integrated DJ booth which he built in 2009) at Berlin’s Global Pecha Kucha Day for Haiti, Uleshka was asked by IDEO to host a small workshop on social furniture and suggest speakers. To emphasize the importance of the independent maker movement…

Takeshi Ishiguro is a highly respected Japanese design maverick with a flair for melding gadgets with a sense of poetry. A giant smoke ring machine, a dance performance piece in zero gravity or a “love sofa” that works like a Theremin are just a few of his peculiar yet stunning and unique projects.
Uleshka invited him to Tokyo Art Beat’s TAB Talk to find out about his work processes, motivation behind slightly obsessed tinkering and his impressive list of clients…

Uleshka was asked to lead the discussion and host the Post-Design Tide X Pecha Kucha Night at Super Deluxe, Tokyo in 2006, shortly after the big Tokyo Design Fair had ended. Pecha Kucha presentations were held by exhibitors applying for the upcoming fair in 2007 followed by a discussion about the just finished Design Tide event…

Pecha Kucha Night has turned into a global celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities, inspiring creatives worldwide. This extensive network was first united for “Global Pecha Kucha Day” – the world’s biggest distributed conference where over 100 cities held Pecha Kucha events on the same night, which resulted in a global 24 hour landscape of creative presentations raising money for rebuilding Haiti, 2010…

Pecha Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It rests on a simple presentation format: 20 images x 20 seconds. This unique framework makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace. Uleshka wrote the book…

In 2005 Japanese design company IMG SRC allowed then web designer Uleshka to experiment and granted her a special project: a blog about design. The outcome was PingMag: An online design magazine based in Tokyo evolving around the idea of finding inspiration in everything and defining the term design as broadly as one could. It became Asia’s biggest design blog…

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 organizers daily…