Anastasia Beltyukova aka Tribambuka is a London based award-winning visual storyteller with 15+ years of creative experience who connects people to brands and ideas through lively, soulful whimsical images. She wears many hats, being an illustrator, animation- and art director, senior graphic designer and a visual artist.
She’s worked for brands like CNN, The Wall Street Journal, NBC, P&G, NHS, Babylon Health, Migration Museum, The National Lottery, Shelter and many more. She held over 15 public talks and her work has been recognised with over 30 awards and shortlists. She's been featured in Steven Heller's "Illustration Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters" and included in the top 20 Creative Influencers on Creativepool. She’s also an exhibiting artist, currently on show in the Migration Museum with her new solo exhibition 'Nowhere to Go but Anywhere'. Her works are inspired by myths and archetypes and carry some Russian Avant-Garde flavour infused with swinging sixties vibe.
She also provides mentorship sessions and consultations for early carer illustrators.
Areas of expertise:
Graphic design, brand communications, brand and corporate identity, print design, social media content, design for music, packaging design, editorial and corporate illustration, 2D animation, animation direction, art direction, Infographics. Also painting, drawing and printmaking!
Selected Clients
"Beltyukova's influences include the Russian/Soviet artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian Constructivism, analytical painting in general, and illustrators of the Russian avant-garde."
- STEVEN HELLER
"Anastasia is a talented illustrator with a style that is at once beautiful, elegant, playful and charming. She created a series of nine detailed illustrations of David Bowie through his career within days of his death for an interactive capturing his different looks and styles, a highlight of our creative collaboration. Her fairy tale illustrations remain among the most beautiful pieces CNN has published, and, like the Bowie portraits, were created at breaking news speed."
- RICHARD GREENE, CNN
"I had the opportunity to work with Anastasia to create the illustration system for our new branding. She was incredibly creative and productive, not just when producing the illustrations we asked her but contributing to the ideation process as well with great ideas. She understood exactly what we needed. Her illustrations are going to lift our brand incredibly and can't wait to work with her again!"
- EMMA VASQUEZ, ZAPPI
Awards and achievements
ILLUSTRATION AWARDS:
Creativepool Awards 2021
Bronze Award for Illustration, UK
Creativepool Awards 2021
Bronze Award for Animation, UK
3x3 Annual Illustration Show 2021
Merit Award, USA
Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2021, Winner, USA
Society of Illustrators Competition 63
Shortlist, USA
Creativepool Award 2020
Bronze Award for Illustration, UK
Creative Quarterly 61, Runner Up, USA
HiiiBrand Illustration Competition 2019
Jury Prize, China
HiiiBrand Illustration Competition 2019
Best of the Best, China
HiiiBrand Illustration Competition 2019
Merit Award, China
3x3 Mag International Illustration Competition No17, Honorable Mention, USA
Society of Illustrators Competition 62
Shortlist, USA
Illustration West 59, Shortlist, USA
Communication Arts Illustration Competition 2018, Shortlist, USA
Creativepool Awards 2017, Illustration Shortlist, UK
Creativepool Awards 2016, Illustration Shortlist, UK
Creativepool Awards 2016, Wave Shortlist, UK
Animation Awards
16 Awards and 17 Shortlists for
Violet Hum / The Arthur Brothers
Heart of the Nation / Migration Museum
Solo Shows
Right to Rage
OXO Tower Wharf, London, UK, 2022
I Am Home
Atelier 3I3, Porto, Portugal, 2019
Weird And Wonderful
S.P.O.T Gallery, London, UK, 2013
20+ Group shows
PUBLIC TALKS / PODCASTS
How to Use What You Feel to Make Art / Public talk, The Mixer x AOI, Disabled Illustrators Meet Up with Tribambuka, 2023
Fierce Women: The Power of Female Rage at Work and Beyond / Panel Discussion SheSays x Cluster x Tribambuka, OXO Tower Wharf, London, UK, 2022
Holding Home In Our Hands
Symposium and social event around the meaning and impact of home in a globalised world.
Central Saint Martins x Foundling Museum / London, UK, 2022
Finding Home / Seven of Clubs
Pushkin House, London, UK / 2022
Hotline Design Podcast / 2021
Animated Documentaries Q&A
Hackney Picturehouse, London, UK / 2021
Finding Your Voice
Cluster Illustration, London, UK / 2021
Finding Your Voice
Kyoorios Designyatra Conference
Mumbai, India / 2020
KinoLondon Q&A, London, UK / 2020
Creativity + Opportunity, Panel discussion
British Library, Hill+Knowlton conference / 2019
Round Table Discussions on developing partnership of creative industries between St. Petersburg and London. OXO Tower, London UK / 2014
Indian Street Graphics in Context of Branding and Cultural Values, public talk, part of the series of lectures by stars of graphic design “VIJU”.
ETAGI, St. Petersburg, Russia / 2009
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
AlTiba9 magazine / feature / 2023
ZIMA magazine / interview / 2021
The Calvert Journal / feature / 2020
Design Calender / Illustration edition 2019, interview
The Illustration Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters by Steven Heller, feature, 2018
Featured in 5 volumes of LogoLounge
books 2009-2014
1000 Artist’s Journal Pages 2008
[kAk) design magazine, #3 (29) 2004 - articles
Side projects
OK TATA - Indian Street Graphics - is a project that started with Anastasia's deep fascination by Indian visual culture. It's a collection of images that were collected between 2003 and 2010 in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Kerala, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Goa and Karnataka, including painted trucks and rikshaws, walls, ephemera, Gods, hand painted signs and whats not. To be continued as soon, hopefully, when travelling will be possible again!
Anastasia co-runs and art-directs a small indie label ClearLight Records. She's responsible for the visual side of things, from designing album covers to directing music videos. Check out their latest release - The Arthur Brothers' debut album 'NINE', which is 'one of the most remarkable debut albums in years and years' - as Music News put it.
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All works © 2011-2020 Anastasia Beltyukova