About Marie Smth
Nice to meet you here!
My name is Marie Smth, and I’m the founder of this design studio. Also, I am the brand designer and illustrator.
I have a lot of experience in design, marketing, and business.
Design experience
I got a bachelor's degree in Arts in 2012, but I've started to work as a freelance designer in 2010. I've been working with branding, identity, and advertising design.
I worked as a UI/UX designer in different companies. I did some projects for Mastercard mobile, Wargaming, and Alfabank.
2010 - 2011: Graphic Designer in Advertising agency "Sarafannoe radio", Gomel, Belarus.
2011: Graphic Designer in Design studio "Concept", Gomel, Belarus.
2012-2013: Freelancer.
2013-2014: UI Designer in fintech company "Intervale", Gomel, Belarus.
2014-2015: UI/UX Designer in gamedev company "Wargaming", Minsk, Belarus.
Blogging
In 2015 I created my Youtube channel, where I started to talk about UI and UX design.
Now my channel has around 900 000 views, but I stopped recording videos some years ago.
Teaching
In 2016 I published my book about design principles.
I created three design courses: two about UI/UX Design and one about Lettering and Calligraphy.
Red Lips Journal
In 2015 me and my friends created a lifestyle magazine for women redlipsjournal.com. I worked as an editor-in-chef & art director. The journal was pretty popular. We published one long-read article per day. We had around 10 authors, and sometimes we collaborated with bloggers and brands. We created a great community.
Something Special
In 2018 I've launched my own clothing business named Something Special. It was printing and sewing production based in Gomel, Belarus.
The main feature of the brand was creative and funny illustrations, which I created.
In 2020 we made around 40-50 sales per day through our website. Our clients are mainly located in Belarus and Russia. Unfortunately, I needed to pause this business in 2022 because of moving to Warsaw, Poland.
