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  • Photographs: James Dyson Awards.
    Defining tomorrow
    The 2023 James Dyson Award winners have been announced. >
  • Life through the lens
    A Russian photographer is awarded for documenting the social transformation of the traditional ‘reindeer people’ >
  • Three innovative buildings that show the way forward in architecture
    Take a look at the cutting-edge solutions designers have used to solve modern problems of the built world on three different continents. >
  • Top 10
    Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | September 2017
    We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >
  • DD16
    Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16
    This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design. >
  • TOP 10 CROWDFUNDING
    Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | August 2017
    We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >
  • Kinder Surprise condom
    Ilya Kalimulin's Unexpected Products are a quirky jab at brands we love
    What would an air horn made by Pampers look like? How about bullet casings made by M&M? >
  • Kiliii Yuyan - Living Wild
    Alternative living with 21st-century hunter-gatherers
    Living Wild documents modern hunter-gatherers in a movement called the Stone Age Living Project. >
  • A student of Vaganova
    Desperately Perfect
    Rachel Papo captures the drive and skill of young Russian dancers in a photo series. >
  • Arrivals and Departures is about the connections between people
    Arrivals and Departures is about the connections between people
    Human relationships are at the centre of Jacob Aue Sobol’s haunting black and white series. >
  • Axo Light's Fedora lamp by Dima Loginoff
    The Fedora lighting range is inspired by a Russian doll
    Dima Loginoff , the rising star of Russian design, plays with a traditional shape in his latest contemporary design for Italian design company Axo Light. >
  • Award-winning photographer Robin Hammond launches a platform for LGBTI communities to share stories of discrimination and courage
    Where Love Is Illegal: Stories from persecuted LGBTI communities
    Award-winning photographer Robin Hammond launches a platform for LGBTI communities to share stories of discrimination and courage. >
  • Dinosigning by Max Litvinov.
    "Dinosigning" by Max Litvinov
    In this strange short film by Russian animator Max Litvinov, a woman creates an alternate reality filled with dinosaurs. >
  • MegaFon Sochi Winter Olympics by Asif Khan.
    Kinetic façade
    Asif Khan has designed “a Mount Rushmore of the digital age” for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. >
  • Knopka bank identity by Michael Wolff and others.
    Pressing buttons
    A new identity for a division of a Russian bank seeks to make the financial service friendlier and more streamlined. Michael Wolff headed up the process. >
  • Alexey Samsonov (Somistar)
    TEN Collection: design tutorial ft Alexey Samsonov (Russia)
    Alexey Samsonov talks through the process of creating his digital artwork for the TEN Collection. Use the captions settings on the video player for subtitles. >
  • Alexey Samsonov
    Alexey Samsonov
    Graphic Designer
    Alexey Samsonov, aka Somistar, is a self-taught designer who lives and works in Moscow. He is the 7th digital artist featured in the TEN Collection, Season 2. >
  • Cardboard construction
    Shigeru Ban has created a temporary pavilion out of cardboard to host the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. >
  • For the love of paper
    Yulia Brodskaya's love of paper inspires her to transform the material into elaborate 3-D artworks that shed a new light on the possibilities of paper craft. >
  • Plywood paintings
    Graphic design meets craftsmanship in Russian artist Aske’s Plywood artworks. >
  • Russian jewel
    The Pushkinsky Jewel is a design concept for connecting a landmark theatre to the historic and culturally vibrant Pushkin Square in Moscow. >
  • Paper people
    A Russian design duo reminds us that paper miniatures are people too. >
  • Cubist Vases. Photo via dezeen.
    Happy anniversary to modernism
    A new 10-year collectible edition by the Boym Partners celebrates the 100th anniversary of modernism. >
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