TYPO Talks » Blog Archiv » Russian Touch at TYPO Berlin

Neighbouring Poland and huge Russia have undergone exciting as well as widely-acclaimed developments. TYPO Berlin 2013 is proud to have partnered with two facilitators, Rene Wawrzkiewicz and Helena Dell-Kolaschnik both acknowledged experts in the design scenes of Poland and Russia.

Peter Bankov: Sketches

For years Helena Dell-Kolaschnik, whose mother tongue is Russian, has been in touch with the lively Russian design scene. She has established personal contacts with Russian designers and design studios and gained partners in Moscow and St. Petersburg. With her knowledge and her contacts she advises companies entering the Russian market. She also monitors the realization of projects involving Russian designers. On Friday, the second TYPO day, the whole TYPO Show is dedicated to Design from Russia.

Peter Bankov

Peter Bankov was born in 1969 in Minsk. He graduated from the Minsk Art College in 1988 and the Moscow State Polygraph Institute in 1993. In 1996 he published [kAk) magazine, which has grown to be one of the key points of reference for the Russian graphic design scene. He is also the founder and creative director of Design Depot in Moscow. For his work in the fields of design and advertising he has received numerous awards on a national and international scale. He now lives in Prague.

Speaker page

Helena Dell-Kolaschnik

After extensive on-the-spot research concerning the identity and status of Russian design and pioneer designers in Russia in the context of her MA thesis at FH Potsdam, Helena Dell-Kolaschnik has been in touch with important representatives of the design industry in Russia for many years. Her blog and she herself have become an important reference for Russian designers interested in an exchange with Germany. Her branding and design studio The Relevant Set develops IDs and visual communication projects for corporations, NGOs and cultural institutions. Her mother tongue is Russian, and for German clients she paves the way to adequate communication and representation in Russia.

Speaker page

Mitya Kharshak

Mitya Kharshak (*1977 in Leningrad) is designer, photographer and the founder and editor-in-chief of “Projector” magazine. In 2003 and 2006 he took part in international interdisciplinary design and architectural projects on the topics “Shrinking cities” and “EU-urbanism” in Bauhaus (Dessau, Germany). He is a participant of lots of professional exhibitions and competitions. An author of the book “From psychology of domestic type to graphic archeology” (2006) and dozens of articles on design, visual art and advertising. His works are in the collections of the Russian National Library, the State Museum of Vladimir Nabokov and the State Museum “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”. Lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.

Speaker page

Mikhail Simakov

Senior graphic information designer at the Moskovskie Novosti (Moscow News).

Speaker page

Alexandra Korolkova

Alexandra Korolkova is a Cyrillic type designer, type researcher and type consultant. She has been working for ParaType since 2009 as a Head of Type Design, and from 2014 — as a Type Director. In 2009–2011 participated in Public Types of Russian Federation project (including PT Sans and PT Serif) as the principal designer. She also wrote a book on typography for beginners in Russian (roughly translated as Lively Typography). Awarded at international type design competitions (including Modern Cyrillic, Granshan, ED Awards) and received Prix Charles Peignot in 2013.

Speaker page

Svetlana Landl

Svetlana Landl is a communication designer based in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Berlin. She studied Communication Design at FH Potsdam, and has worked as a designer ever since. In 2006 she went to Russia, where she handled branding and image projects for corporations and cultural organizations, and implemented urban branding, cultural and urban development programmes for the city of St. Petersburg. Landl is a co-founder and partner of “Damm und Landl” in St. Petersburg. The agency focuses on the interface between cultural and business and creates branding and cultural projects for companies and cultural institutions. The Municipal Government of St. Petersburg, the Committee of Culture of St. Petersburg, the German General Consulate, several companies, museums and theatres in the city are among its clients.

Speaker page

Jointly opening the topic of current Russian design affairs will be Peter Bankov and Mitya Kharshak. At TYPO Hall, the main stage of TYPO, they will provide a lively insight into the process of producing a magazine in today’s Russian media landscape. Bankov was raised and educated in the Belarusian capital of Minsk from where he moved to Moscow in the early nineties, towards the end of the Soviet Union. In 1996 he began publishing [kAk] magazine, which has grown to be one of the key points of reference for the Russian graphic design scene.

Peter Bankov: Book Cover

Bankov is also the founder and still creative director of Design Depot in Moscow, responsible for the corporate branding of the Russian Savings Bank and the Ministry of Culture of Russia, for example. For his work in the fields of design and advertising Bankov has received numerous awards on a national and international scale.

Bankov’s co-speaker is Leningrad-born Mitya Kharshak – one person in three – founder, publisher and editor-in chief of Projector Magazine, a professional design magazine. Karshak’s design works are in the collections of the Russian National Library, the State Museum of Vladimir Nabokov and the State Museum “Tsarskoye Selo Collection”. He lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Mitya Kharshak: Projektor Magazine

Projector focuses on design issues with a wide angle. It covers a variety of aspects from the history of design formation to modern education, from books to interactive, from the font to the subject. Projector does not address a narrow circle of specialists, but far more anyone interested in design topics and it selects from the general context the most interesting, vibrant and relevant.

Communication designer Mikhail Simakov and Alexey Novichkov open the TYPO Design Special: Russia on Friday at the TYPO Show at noon. Both are well-known for their Info graphics for Moskovskie Novosti and RIA Novosti, Russian News agencies.

An impressive selection of contemporary information design can be viewed on Mikhail Simakov’s Flickr stream

Peter Bankov continues the Russia Special with “Posters every day” presenting his vast collection of his favourite genre, followed by Alexandra Korolkova – head of the design department at ParaType. Alexandra has won several Cyrillic type design competitions and written a popular Russian typography textbook. Her presentation is devoted to fine-tuning the Cyrillic part of a typeface and shows how to adjust Cyrillic for real use.

Alexandra Korolkova: combining Cyrillic and Latin Type

Daniil Bolshov, Eugeny Malyshev, Svetlana Yakovleva and Elizaveta Kirilina are introducing us to the Post-It Awards and how they support emerging Russian design talents.

Taiyisa Lushenko: logo development in a brand manual

Taisiya Lushenko has specialized on logo and type design at Art.Lebedev Studio. She has played a major role in a number of the studio’s projects, including the Bolshoi Theater logo, Odessa city’s visual identity, Hedonism corporate identity, and others. Taisiya explains how project challenges can be resolved with type.

Taiyisa Lushenko: Bolshoi Ballet Branding

St. Petersburg is the second biggest city in Russia, Russian capital for centuries and theme of Svetlana Landl’s presentation. Are the wealth of resources and reputation a pleasure or a burden when it comes to city branding? Svetlana will present a transdisciplinary project dealing with the urban identity and the branding of St. Petersburg.

Moving between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Berlin, Svetlana Landl is a multicultural communication designer who studied Communication Design at FH Potsdam and today handles branding and image projects for companies and cultural organizations. Landl is a co-founder and partner of “Damm und Landl” in St. Petersburg focusing on the interface between cultural and business and creating, branding and cultural projects for companies and cultural institutions. The Municipal Government of St. Petersburg, the Committee of Culture of St. Petersburg, the German General Consulate are among her clients.

Svetlana Landl: City poster

We are very much looking forward to TYPO Design Special: Russia and we would like to thank Helena Dell-Kolaschnik for choosing exciting speakers and acting as curator for this part of the programme.

A rich and colourful collection of the graphic works of our Russian speakers as well as the other speakers invited to this year‘s TYPO Berlin can be viewed on the speaker board on Pinterest and gives an idea on how diverse current international graphic design has become.