Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine

Fig 01. Final Artwork

Project Dossier Artwork / 2020

Brothers Berezutski

A Soviet-poster portrait of the Berezutski brothers for NPLH's Fraternity issue — twin iconography, coal-dust severity, and faces drawn as if they were quarried.

Client NPLH Magazine

Category Artwork

Year 2020

About the Project

Copy 81 words

Figures 15

Client NPLH Magazine

Created for NPLH issue 8: Fraternity.

The brief became an excuse to lean hard into Soviet poster language — twins, spirit bears, coal dust, Cyrillic, and faces drawn as if they had been quarried rather than painted.

It treats the Berezutski brothers less as footballers and more as symbolic figures from some harsher graphic mythology. Like most things from this period it was built mostly on the iPad, and my apologies still stand for anyone who can actually read Russian.

Selected plates 14 figures

Arrangement Paired plates

Sequence Fig 02–15

Viewing Open any plate

Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.

Fig 02. Detail View

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 2

Fig 03. Material Study

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 3

Fig 04. Print Context

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 4

Fig 05. Surface Detail

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 5

Fig 06. Crop Study

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 6

Fig 07. Texture Pass

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 7

Fig 08. Edition View

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 8

Fig 09. Detail View

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 9

Fig 10. Material Study

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 10

Fig 11. Print Context

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 11

Fig 12. Surface Detail

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 12

Fig 13. Crop Study

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 13

Fig 14. Texture Pass

Vasili Berezutski, Aleksei Berezutski, Russia national football team — illustration by John Tregoning for NPLH Magazine — view 14

Fig 15. Edition View

Sequence note

Every figure here opens full-screen — click any plate to expand it, then arrow or swipe through the sequence without losing your place. The work is drawn at resolutions far beyond the page, so getting closer is actively encouraged.

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