Vic Bakin is documenting Ukrainian youth in Kyiv’s de-occupied territories
2025
Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine
2020
“Our fight goes on. On battlefields and online” – Kyiv-based design writer Lena Kozar shares her story from inside the war
2022
The cheery and expressive illustrations of Finnish illustrator Antti Kalevi
2016
Kieran Kesner's stunning portraits of people and protests in Ukraine
2014
Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925
1925
A Ship in a Stormy Sea
1837
Välskärinkatu 9, Sandelsinkatu 10, Helsinki
Välskärinkatu 3, Helsinki
Välskärinkatu 5, Helsinki
Välskärinkatu 1b, Helsinki
Välskärinkatu 7, Helsinki
Sandelsinkatu 4, Helsinki
Soviet pocket watch (2)
2007
Soviet pocket watch (1)
2007
Gold Chaika Pocket Watch made in the USSR
2014
Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
Michal Chelbin's photography is an unusual insight into Ukraine's military boarding schools
2018
Ukrainian collective Join The Cool recreate an Eastern European school graduation album
2018
Blending fiction and reality, Julie Poly’s new series presents the colourful characters of the Ukrainian railway
2020
A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
More great new work from talented Finnish illustrator Toni Halonen
2014
Typography, Tom of Finland and the technological sublime in the British Art Show 8
2016
Liv Siddall looks back on Helsinki's time in the design spotlight
2012
Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
Photographer David Denil explores Ukraine's mindset after the 2014 revolution
2019
Finnish design studio TSTO is pushing boundaries in the cultural corner
2024
Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
David Shrigley's favourite Finnish illustrator, and now ours: Amanda Vähämäki
2012
Unnerving photographs of a youth military camp from Ukrainian Maxim Dondyuk
2015
Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
Alexander Chekmenev’s compelling photographs of elderly citizens in the newly independent Ukraine
2017
Got a really dry brief and need something brilliant? Call Helsinki studio Werklig
2014
Photographer Joe Newman documents a boxing gym for young people in a Ukrainian war zone
2019
Introducing: Meet Helsinki-based graphic designer Pol Solsona!
2014
Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
Graphic Design: Lovely new liquorice packaging all the way from Finland
2013
Illustration: More work from the hilarious and sometimes naughty Finnish illustrator, Rami Niemi
2013
Patrick Wassmann photographs the youthful existence in Mukachevo, Ukraine
2019
The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
Graphic Design: Whoever chose Tom of Finland to be on Finnish stamps is a genius
2014
Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Ukrainian artist Lewel makes unashamedly crazy illustration
2012
Environmentally interactive swarm illuminations in Helsinki's Silo 468
2012
Illustration: Retro loveliness from brilliant Finnish illustrator Sanna Mander
2014
Helsinki World Design Capital 2012
2012
New work by Finnish illustrator extraordinaire Linda Linko
2014
Clifford Jago returns with a bizarre, confusing but altogether joyful trip through Ukraine
2019
“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
JJ Lorenzo photographs a generation “marked by the frictions between East and West” in Ukraine
2021
Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
Finnish illustration brilliance goes Dutch as Agent Pekka sets up Amsterdam office
2012
Chris Nunn immerses himself in the turbulent regions of Ukraine
2014
A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
Exhibition: Finnish artist Kustaa Saksi takes weaving to psychedelic new levels
2013
Lonely Boyz: Finnish illustrator Rami Niemi creates a specially commissioned graphic story
2015
Kyiv Type Foundry is conserving the architectural heritage of Ukraine by pulling typefaces out from underground
2025
A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
This charity photo project gave Ukrainian children disposable cameras to capture life through their eyes
2024
Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap
2019
Yelena Yemchuk’s photo series Odesa documents a Ukrainian city undergoing momentous change
2022
Illustration: bold, brash patterns and pictures from Finland's Antti Uotila
2013
Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
It’s Nice That’s print sale for Ukraine includes artworks by Jean Jullien, Anthony Burrill, Kelly Anna and lots more
2022
Tommi Musturi's keeping comics alive for the people of Finland
2013
Tom of Finland's house, a hotbed of creativity and desire, captured by Martyn Thompson
2016
The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012