competition

Tuesday, 13th December, 2011
Haiku competition time!

Winter haiku

It’s time once again for our quarterly haiku competition. In autumn our haiku winner got a one hour Thai yoga massage – this time there’s a bottle of wine up for grabs! Let’s go over the rules once more. A haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry, formed of 17 syllables split into [...]

Monday, 10th October, 2011
The birth of graphic design

Rodchenko

The multi-talented Aleksander Rodchenko was an artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was also one of the founders of Constructivism in Russia. Together with Lyubov Popova, he was responsible for taking art in Soviet Russia out of galleries and into the real world, influencing architecture, photography, graphic design and fashion. Rodchenko was also a [...]

Thursday, 6th October, 2011
Soviet architecture

Soviet era architecture

Soviet Constructivism started after the 1917 Russian Revolution, with its art playing a significant role in reconstructing a post-revolutionary society. Artists such as Vladimir Tatlin – who is often referred to as the founder of Constructivism – helped to engineer a new utopian Russia. Architecture Constructivist architecture can still be seen to this day, following [...]

Monday, 3rd October, 2011
Made in Russia

Sputnik

Introducing: Red October! Through October we’re celebrating Soviet design and its influence on the digital media revolution. Take technology, for example: In 1957, Russian satellite Sputnik was launched into space, making it the first man-made object to leave the Earth’s atmosphere The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was indeed Russian too. He blasted off [...]