Consulting
Consulting for companies and designers who want to understand why things feel off and how to make them feel right—in design, communication, or team flow.

The approach is practical and direct, grounded in rich, diverse experience across many industries and cultures. We can starts from a one-hour session (€150) and can grow into deeper work when needed.
Consulting Companies
Providing strategic advisory to managers and entrepreneurs, drawing on extensive experience as a visual design generalist.
Projects with high ambiguity
Designer perspective on communication strategy
Consulting on efficient expert selection
Guidance when things feel off
Brand communications
Intercultural and multilingual design
Consulting Designers
Helping creatives make sense of things, find clarity, and structure projects across design, message, and artistic expression.
Mentorship
Creative and design processes
Getting you unstuck
Typography systems and layout design
Finding pace and meaning in your project
Consulting Design Leads
Guiding beginner and intermediate design leads on how to build happy, highly productive work environments.
People management for creatives, by creatives
Curatorship
Skills, disciplines, and duties
Staff grading and development
Fractional Design Leadership
Building communication design departments from the ground up: hiring, grooming, and installing design methods to create flexible, sustainable teams with a healthy growth trajectory.
Design strategy
Flexible and economically efficient team design
Hiring and sourcing
Designer tools and enabling environments
I work with designers offering mentorship, art direction, and help on difficult cases that need clarity. Particularly, I often help digital product designers with layout design approach, in-app comms media, styling and art-direction. With design managers I work on team structure, transparency and leadership. Also, I can offer some lectures or even to design full course if needed.
Some challenges just don’t fit a process. I help make sense of those—offering guidance on aligning what a brand says with how it looks and feels. I share expertise in connecting visual language with tone and purpose, shaping communication that’s coherent, human, and alive. This covers creative direction, marketing, production, and HR comms—places where design and meaning meet.
different thinker
I was told that by some big people, idk. Perhaps it's because I'm autodidact and approach work like one—not because it sounds cool, but because that’s how I learned everything that matters. I rely on curiosity, intuition, and a habit of questioning things instead of trusting conventional wisdom. The obvious path is often fine, but never the only one.
all-rounder
I worked in editorial design, events, web-design, branding design, and art-direction and design management. I have some knowledge in adjacent fields. My curiosity took me across teams from China to the UK, from Uzbekistan to Canada. I’ve learned to work between cultures, languages, and alphabets—Cyrillic, Latin, and Chinese typography.
running with a cool crowd
Often I buy advices myself from other graphic designers, architects, clothing designers, design educators and experts in people management. And there are some cool designers and creatives of all kinds in my network. Even some exotic ones like Hybrid Media Designers, Generative Design Architects, Houdini TDs ets. We can invite them to your project.
no opportunists
Don't bother if you do gambling, betting, spyware, populist politics or a cultural project where everyone is heavily exploited underpaid. Also if you are the kind of person to put extreme SEO in headlines for sales increase. It's not just ethical issues. We just don't get along naturally.
Contact me via mishagusevmail@gmail.com