Darija Zubakova

A graphic designer and illustrator from Kyiv, currently living and working in Leipzig. In 2020, she graduated from the Publishing and Printing Institute of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Book Graphics. She is currently completing her diploma project in Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. She collaborates with Ukrainian and German publishers and authors, creating book covers and illustrations, including those for Gu Shi’s science fiction novel «When the Mother Ship Comes to Me». In addition, Darija works as a graphic designer for cultural institutions in Germany. In 2023, she taught art to Ukrainian children at an art school in the German city of Gera. She has also participated twice in the residency programme run by renowned German author Cornelia Funke.

For Safran publishing house, he created the covers for «Love in a Fallen Сity» and «Takekurabe».