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…

Hitotoki is an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to a particular location in cities worldwide. Uleshka contributed a story to Hitotoki to support this inspiring new format to read a city. She also performed at Hitotoki’s public reading at Pink Cow, Tokyo in February 2008 with another story…

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…