designer / illustrator / berkeley, ca
Hello! My name is Alina Buevich and I’m a designer & illustrator—sometimes you can spot my work at events but other times it lives online, in print, or even on some merch. Outside of that, I also spend my time drawing, taking on freelance projects, and collaborating on lump shop. In a lot of these projects you’ll see examples of work from my time as an in-house designer at Discord and Chronicle Books.
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Hedley & Bennett
/ 2024
For Hedley & Bennett’s collaboration with social media chef Cassie Yeung, I designed a series of custom knife engravings for a 3-part knife set. The set includes a chef's knife, bread knife, and utility knife, each featuring Cassie’s signature catchphrases. A key aspect of the design was creating a continuous marbled pattern that flows seamlessly across all three knives when placed together.
Process excerpts
Peets Coffee
/ 2019
A freelance illustration project for Peet’s Coffee. They wanted to grow their popular City/State Mug Collection and the artist communities behind them. Each design was created by a local artist from their specific city and with all the proceeds going to local non-profit organizations.
This project is another one that I like to show the process for since it was really fun coming up with ideas for coffee related themes and illustrations. Read more here:
Baggu Website
/ 2019
Some unused front end web design sketches for Baggu in early 2019—they were looking to explore different ways to visually organize their category pages.