Welcome to TELLING STORIES 2025!
A major creative industries festival by HSE Faculty of Creative Industries is back — gathering professionals, young talents, and everyone working with ideas, images, and narratives in culture, media, and design.
→ This year’s theme: Stories. As language. As tools. As form. From visual and audio storytelling to spatial and embodied experiences — explore storytelling in all its dimensions.
In collaboration with DAFES, the festival will also host the Grand Finale of DAFES AWARDS & HSE CREATIVE OPEN 24/25 — celebrating the best projects in graphic design, fashion, CG, creative coding, and stage art.
📍 Where? Digital Business Space, Pokrovka 47
📅 When? May 24
🕚 Festival: 11:00–20:00
🏆 Awards Ceremony: 17:00–19:30 (Main Hall)
Join us!
#DAFESAwards #HSECreativeOpen
A major creative industries festival by HSE Faculty of Creative Industries is back — gathering professionals, young talents, and everyone working with ideas, images, and narratives in culture, media, and design.
→ This year’s theme: Stories. As language. As tools. As form. From visual and audio storytelling to spatial and embodied experiences — explore storytelling in all its dimensions.
Dive into a full day of lectures, workshops, and open talks with 50+ speakers from culture, media, design, tech, and education. Be inspired, connect, and create with the creative community.
In collaboration with DAFES, the festival will also host the Grand Finale of DAFES AWARDS & HSE CREATIVE OPEN 24/25 — celebrating the best projects in graphic design, fashion, CG, creative coding, and stage art.
📍 Where? Digital Business Space, Pokrovka 47
📅 When? May 24
🕚 Festival: 11:00–20:00
🏆 Awards Ceremony: 17:00–19:30 (Main Hall)
Join us!
#DAFESAwards #HSECreativeOpen
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Фестиваль креативных индустрий Telling Stories Fest 2026
Факультет креативных индустрий и Школа дизайна НИУ ВШЭ при поддержке конкурсной платформы DAFES приглашают на масштабное городское событие, объединяющее профессионалов, молодых специалистов и всех, кто работает с идеями и визуальными историями в сфере культуры…
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🌟 Highlight of TELLING STORIES evening: grand DAFES Awards 2025 ceremony
On the TELLING STORIES stage, the most promising and talented professionals in the country have gathered. Representatives from 20 creative industries, 50 competition categories, and dozens of award-winning projects.
💚 Thank you for sharing this important day with TELLING STORIES!
#DAFESAwards #HSECreativeOpen #TellingStories
On the TELLING STORIES stage, the most promising and talented professionals in the country have gathered. Representatives from 20 creative industries, 50 competition categories, and dozens of award-winning projects.
Your work embodies our most daring dream: we’re creating the design of tomorrow today. 🚀
💚 Thank you for sharing this important day with TELLING STORIES!
#DAFESAwards #HSECreativeOpen #TellingStories
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DAFES Choice Best of April 2025 ✨
I Place
II Place
III Place
🖇️ view all winners here
Don’t miss your chance: upload your project to deziiign.com and join the next DAFES Choice in May 2025!
#DAFESChoice #design #art #fashion #education #startups
I Place
• "Perfect shapes and live reality" by Maria Gusareva, HSE Design Lab, Svetlana Sebyakina
II Place
• "#nature. Land Art in Russia: Timeline of Events" by Elena Guseva
• "Act of Creation: Back to Life" by Evgeniya Starikova
III Place
• "Outlands" by Shi-chang Zhu
• "Collage: Smash it, Smear it, Stun it" by Tatyana Fadeeva
• "Encyclopedia of Media Art" by HSE Design Lab, Tatiyana Fadeeva
• "Temple of the Laborers" by Sergey Kolchin
• "Exhibition: The Tale Disobeys the Little Bird" by Anastasiya Shabashova, Roman Mironov
🖇️ view all winners here
Don’t miss your chance: upload your project to deziiign.com and join the next DAFES Choice in May 2025!
#DAFESChoice #design #art #fashion #education #startups
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We are thrilled to announce the winners of DAFES AWARDS' 25 in the Media Design category:
🥇 I place — VZN
Authors: Irina Shevtsova, Maria Vostrikova, Anastasia Litvinova, Ha Mi Le
🥈 II place — Video magazine Love Acts
Authors: Nina Gabaraeva, Margarita Ignatyeva, Dina Ganeeva
🥉 III place — Hypatia
Author: Maria Protopopova
More award categories will be revealed soon. Stay with us and celebrate creativity in all its forms! ✨
#DAFESAwards #creativeawards #design
🥇 I place — VZN
A magazine exploring the fusion of fashion and art, examining how these realms affect our identity, reflect contemporary trends, and shape new cultural narratives.
Authors: Irina Shevtsova, Maria Vostrikova, Anastasia Litvinova, Ha Mi Le
🥈 II place — Video magazine Love Acts
A video magazine that delves into culture, history, and art through the lens of love — in all its diverse forms and expressions.
Authors: Nina Gabaraeva, Margarita Ignatyeva, Dina Ganeeva
🥉 III place — Hypatia
A media project spotlighting young successful women in the field of STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) across Russia — celebrating innovation, intellect, and female leadership.
Author: Maria Protopopova
More award categories will be revealed soon. Stay with us and celebrate creativity in all its forms! ✨
#DAFESAwards #creativeawards #design
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Let’s start this day with some good news!
We are happy to announce the winners of DAFES AWARDS '25 in Board game & Game design categories 💫
Board game:
Game design:
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We are happy to announce the winners of DAFES AWARDS '25 in Board game & Game design categories 💫
Board game:
🥇 I place — Mythicos, the board game for learning Greek language.
Author: Afina Elefteridi.
🥈 II place — PolyHod, an educational board game on the subject of enterprise economics.
Authors: Juliana Stepanova, Polina Korol, Daria Lebedeva, Sophia Kulakova.
🥉 III place — Hraniteli, a board game that tells about the significance of historical epochs, key historical figures and events. Author: Alexandra Petrosyan
Game design:
🥇 I place — Obsidian , a platform side-scroller with horror and puzzle elements.
Author: Vladislav Galchutkin.
🥈 II place — Tomahawk , a computer Sci Fi first-person shooter with elements of parkour.
Authors: Anton Kiyko, Vladislav Galchutkin.
🥉 III place — STICK TRICK , a computer top-down game with action and puzzle elements. Author: Vladislav Galchutkin
#CGI #DAFESAwards #creativeawards #design
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