½ 8 is an online gallery maintained by Anton Sokolov. Mostly art works, available in hi-res for download & print, free of charge. If you want to pay an attribution, just hang it on your wall. I do appreciate it.
Also, music that I post ~2 times a year. Ambient, raw, yet to feature vocals. Some tracks end up as video clips.
To learn more about my approach, listen to the talk about the Poster Project I gave in 2020 (get a cup of coffee, it's 1 h long). Vol.2 is coming later 2021.
Besides my personal art, I provide design direction and product management for the next generation of JetBrains apps. Currently, I work on the chat-centric platform for software development teams called Space and the untitled cloud native IDE.
If you are interested in building software together with us, apply for an open position or internship through the careers page.
Prior to JetBrains I led design teams at Veeam ²⁰¹⁴⁻²⁰¹⁵, Wrike ²⁰¹⁵⁻²⁰¹⁶, and was a partner in logistic startup VeeRoute ²⁰¹⁶⁻²⁰¹⁹. The entire national postal service of Kazakhstan runs on VeeRoute’s platform since 2018.
Before I got into IT, I spent 5 years as a graphic designer and before that as an architectural visualizer. Since then, I have been passionate about 3D. And more recently, I've been studying Japanese. Both aspects are paramount in the visual style of my work.
For work inquiries and collaboration ideas, please use info@halfof8.com. I enjoy working with science and cultural institutions, and it is always a pleasure to create new artwork for the Poster Project with a talented ☼ person.
Developed with the help of my good friend Yan Te; Maintained as open-source project on GitHub; Generated with Contentful, Gatsby.js, Netlify; Set in Neue Haas Grotesk