Fusion Lab is a personal project of Max Yahontov. He is a Russian digital artist and designer with a background in creative programming and technology. Discovering his love for art and technologies, he studied Manufacturing Engineering, Interactive Design and Photography. Multidisciplinary approach allow him to combine art and technologies in his projects.
At this time he works as teamlead of search user interface designers at Yandex and runs his own studio Hello Computer. Also he involved in perfomance group Asymmetrique answer as an artist and creative programmer.
Now he is focused on research of modern technologies and different ways of interaction with them. He works more as a multidisciplinary artist and explores creative potential of this approach in art and commercial projects.
Interactive installations
Contemporary art, graphic design and generative art
Creative programming, data visualization, Processing
Motion tracking, computer vision
Microelectronics
Hello Computer interaction design studio, Co-founder
Moscow, Russia, 2011 - present
Asymmetrique Answer performance group, Artist and programmer
Moscow, Russia, 2010 - present
Yandex, Teamlead of search user interface designers
Moscow, Russia, 2008 - present
Web interface design for russian biggest information portal and search service
Standart creative agency, Senior designer
Kostroma, Russia, 2006-2008
Co-creative direction in identity, editorial and web design
Fusion lab, Freelance designer
Kostroma - Moscow, Russia, 2003 - present
Various commercial and art projects in web, interactive design, print and identity
British higher school of art and design, Diploma in interactive and web design
Moscow, Russia, 2008 - 2009
BHSAD is leading design school in Russia
Kostroma photo school, Graduate of photography
Kostroma, Russia, 2006 - 2007
Kostroma state technological university, Bachelor in manufacturing engineering
Kostroma, Russia, 2001 - 2006
2010 Design and advertising exhibition, CDH, Moscow, Russia
2009 Station art gallery, Kostroma, Russia
2009 Vinzavod art gallery, Design act festival, Moscow, Russia
2009 KAK Online design magazine
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, 3DStudioMax, MS Office
Processing and Java, some openFrameworks (C++)
ActionScript 3, JavaScript, XSLT, HTML, CSS
Russian, english, good comprehension of german