In Tula, Russia, a pair of visual artists have been working together for six years as a “design couple” focused on design assets and resources for projects around the world. Oleg Agafonov and Ekaterina (Katja) Buzova thrive on experimentation, embracing a core work ethic that combines their love of art and design.
Oleg is a mixed media artist who began with realistic plein air painting and eventually gravitated toward abstract work. Looking “at reality from the other side,” he defines his personal style as “post-impressionistic abstractionism.”
Ekaterina is an illustrator and graphic designer known for her expressive artistry. She has designed comic books and zines — do-it-yourself miniature magazines — that highlight her skills as an illustrator. Her artwork is influenced by not only her waking life but her dreams; she once designed a zine layout based on a nightmare she had about fighting with a homeless dog.
Oleg and Ekaterina have worked together on countless design projects that include corporate identity, displays, graphics, fonts, icons, and even full-scale murals. The pair creates every single element used in any project they take on, paying special attention to analog materials.
One of their most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is Edward Hopper Abstract Backgrounds, a design collection that marries Oleg and Ekaterina’s affection for traditional art and graphic design.
A painter and printmaker, Hopper is perhaps best known for his oil paintings that explore familiar moments of American life. Oleg and Ekaterina greatly admire his style and built an entire digital art pack based on Hopper’s familiar color palette.
Edward Hopper Abstract Backgrounds offers more than 160 illustration and collage elements that can be mixed and matched in an endless array of design projects.
This collection provides six ready-made abstract backgrounds (18×24 inches, 300dpi) in a medley of gold, avocado green, coffee brown, deep blue, and lively red. It also includes 57 gouache abstract painting elements, five square abstract backgrounds (18×24 inches, 300dpi), five abstract frames (2500x2500px), 39 individual abstract shapes (isolated .png and .svg), and a series of bold typography numbers in a wavy, hypnotic style (.png).
Rounding out the entire collection, Edward Hopper Abstract Backgrounds includes 21 individual paper shapes (300dpi), each in five different colors: avocado oil, gold flake, macchiato, polar night, and watermelon.
This Hopper-esque tool kit is perfect for design projects of all kinds, including product packaging, logos, displays, signage, apparel, merchandise, marketing materials, greeting cards and stationery, website designs, mobile applications, icons, advertisements, social media imagery, vinyl decals, fabric prints, home decor accents, and digital art collage.
Oleg and Ekaterina currently offer six products through YouWorkForThem, a range of design assets that blend traditional media with digital tools. Visit their portfolio to take a look at the rest of their work and if you love working with realistic textures and bold colors, bookmark it so you can check back for new releases in the future!
