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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Motion
2016Russia-based Max Litvinov's experimental animations are a delight
2016
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2016Maria Gruzdeva explores the cosmonaut training facilities of Russia
2016
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2016Olafur Eliasson’s installation The Open Pyramid dominates the Long Gallery in Shanghai
2016
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2015Bright, playful graphic design from Russian studio A-2-O
2015
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2025Vic Bakin is documenting Ukrainian youth in Kyiv’s de-occupied territories
2025
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2019Agua Viva portrays the immigrant experience of a Chinese manicurist in Miami
2019
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2023Artist Yin Ming uses ping pong as a metaphor for the act of code switching
2023
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2012Graphic designer Bardhi Haliti on the design scene in Kosovo
2012
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2020Shining a positive light on Asian voices, Chuntian is a guide to spring inspired by the philosophy of Chinese medicine
2020
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2025This cyanotype series grapples with the process of leaving Russia on ethical grounds
2025
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2021An illustrative portrait of rapidly changing Shanghai by Jeffrey Hsueh
2021
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2019Nikita Dembinski captures Bucharest’s elderly community for Kajet’s latest issue
2019
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2008The Russian Club / Art Vandelay
2008
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2018Xiaoxiao Xu's tranquil and intimate photographs explore her immigration from China to The Netherlands
2018
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2018Mak Kai Hang discusses the typographic differences within Chinese graphic design
2018
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2020Guillaume Chauvin takes an unexpected approach to wartime photography in Ukraine
2020
Poster
2018Serbian designer Marko Vuleta-Djukanov’s music posters celebrate “everyday stuff”
2018
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2014The futuristic world of Russian avant-garde theatre explored at V&A
2014
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2013Lovely, strange and stained illustrations from Woodcum in Moscow
2013
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2022“Our fight goes on. On battlefields and online” – Kyiv-based design writer Lena Kozar shares her story from inside the war
2022
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2014Kieran Kesner's stunning portraits of people and protests in Ukraine
2014
Identity
2018Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe
2018
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2018Can Yang's graphic design style is deep-rooted in her Chinese heritage
2018
Identity
2019Sarula Bao’s Real Chinese Food is a zine about take-out, shame and diaspora identity
2019
Poster
2016Club culture-inspired posters by Ukrainian graphic designer Anton Synytsia
2016
Identity
2019Sean Alexander Geraghty talks identity and traditions with Cuba’s diminishing Chinese population
2019
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2017Photographer Tomer Ifrah captures Moscow's commuters
2017
Motion
2017High octane Nike China animation gets kids to wear their bandages as a “badge of honour”
2017
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2019Da大 by Beijing-based ori.studio reimagines the format of the interview
2019
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2022Suzy Chan’s kitsch and sparkly project explores the children who grow up in China’s factories
2022
Photograph
2023With photographs and testimony from Ukrainian youth, Stuck In Here explores new ways of documenting war
2023
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2019Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
Motion
2022Celebrating the daring designs of Soviet avant-garde film posters with collector Susan Pack
2022
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2023Marco Gehlhar photographs an annual gathering in the remote mountains of Bulgaria
2023
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2014Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
Publication
2014Eric Hu's book features 1,000 unique Chinese character illustrations
2014
Poster
2015Anatoly Grashchenko's randomly generated posters for a Moscow theatre
2015
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2024A traditional Chinese dessert brand inspired by plastic collectible toys
2024
Motion
2014Animation: Take a train into a seriously trippy fantasy land in this Russian music video
2014
Poster
2021Explore the women of Soviet Art through this carefully curated poster collection
2021
Publication
2018Designer Can Yang's book visually presents ancient Chinese elixir recipes
2018
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2020Based between Toronto and Beijing, Meat Studio creates work that bridges cultures
2020
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2016Zhang Kechun encapsulates the oblivion of China's mysterious Yellow River
2016
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2014Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
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2012Chloe Dewe Mathews: China's Wild West
2012
Identity
2019Jules Slütsky searches for identity and home in her series, So You Speak Russian?
2019
Motion
2018Josh King directs video for Khruangbin featuring a lady hula-hooping her way through Shanghai
2018
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2013Photography: Mengxi Zhang's 350km/h is a portrait of a new high-speed China
2013
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2018Charlotte Wales and Chopova Lowena combine 80s wrestling and Bulgarian folklore in Kukeri
2018
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2018Michal Chelbin's photography is an unusual insight into Ukraine's military boarding schools
2018
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2024Siting Yao’s bilingual dictionary translates Chinese lesbian slang
2024
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2018Ukrainian collective Join The Cool recreate an Eastern European school graduation album
2018
Publication
2012Genre-bending, era-defining graphics in a book of 20th century Chinese design
2012
Project
2020Dima Komarov on how “I finally found my style” and the depiction of young people in Russia
2020
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2012Russian art gallery guardians take centre stage in Andy Freeberg's photos
2012
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2020Blending fiction and reality, Julie Poly’s new series presents the colourful characters of the Ukrainian railway
2020
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2018A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
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2015Sun Kai Qiang documents the quiet moments at a Chinese art school
2015
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2021Illustrator Chenyue Yuan digs deep into social histories to tell the story of Chinese labourers living and working in factories
2021
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2016Flaneur explores the magic of Moscow in its biggest issue yet
2016
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2018Moscow-based Masha Demionova’s portraits capture the multi-faceted personalities of women
2018
Poster
2015Funny project documents China’s strange public service announcement posters
2015
Publication
2014Illustration: Owen Davey's latest book is about Laika the Soviet Spacedog
2014
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2017Photographer Kathryn Hurni’s images capture an alternative perspective of Russia
2017
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2014Miscellaneous: A webcomic based in China's version of Google Maps
2014
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2019Camera Arhiva is an archive of printed matter from Romania’s communist era
2019
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2019Marilyn Mugot's photos capture the neon melancholy of China's streets
2019
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2015Shanghai's Ka Xiaoxi captures basketball kids for Nike
2015
Identity
2014Nice identity work from Belgrade-based studio Lorem Ipsum
2014
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2013Nike devotees get yourselves to Beijing, your retail dream awaits!
2013
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2021Wu Lie Wei’s work is an ode to the Chinese youth
2021
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2016Go Go Kosovo! A nation's Olympic odyssey, as shot by Jane Stockdale
2016
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2022Breathtaking and arresting, Livien Yin’s series Paper Suns explores the “desires, uncertainties and pleasures” of Chinese American immigrants
2022
Photograph
2018Chinese photographer, Feng Li's series White Night is a flip book of strange scenarios
2018
Publication
2015Marcel George illustrates eight pages of watches for Russian Port magazine
2015
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2013Product Design: Gay icons as Russian dolls in ace LGBT rights campaign
2013
Publication
2020Flip phones, vintage selfies and kitschy graphic design: Meet 1413 magazine, a “tickle fight” with Chinese culture
2020
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2016Emily Garthwaite captures Romanian bathers in gloriously muddy detail
2016
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2022Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
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2014Photography: Rafal Milach photographs the winners of competitions in Belarus
2014
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2015Jonny Seymour’s cute and strange photo series of six-year-old Chinese kids’ “graduation”
2015
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2022Studio Lava Beijing is erupting with puns and playful designs
2022
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2013Photography: Come and meet the restaurant singers of Russia's Sochi region
2013
Typeface
2020Comprising a new typeface, Ilya Bazhanov’s bachelor thesis examines Russian typography from the 60s
2020
Publication
2020Soviet Space Graphics: a cosmic journey to Cold War-era Russia
2020
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2020Introducing the monochromatic and spooky portraits of Chinese artist Jingze Du
2020
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2019Photographer David Denil explores Ukraine's mindset after the 2014 revolution
2019
Publication
2020The Type covers the history, development, conventions and transcultural contexts of Chinese typography in three new volumes
2020
Garment
2019Using props, backdrops and lavish clothing, Weishan Hu captures the aestheticism of a postmodern China
2019
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2022In Smart Kids, Alex Huanfa Cheng explores the demise of a lost Chinese subculture
2022
Publication
2013Publication: A celebration of the golden era of Russian children's book design
2013
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2016Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Publication
2023Nora Krug illustrates the year-long experience of two individuals living through the Russia-Ukraine War
2023
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2015Dina Kelberman's I'm Google is a visual game of Chinese Whispers
2015
Publication
2021This collection of “ghost signs” shows how the Chinese written language has changed over the last century
2021
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2015Unnerving photographs of a youth military camp from Ukrainian Maxim Dondyuk
2015
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2018Aron Klein's captivating images of the Bulgarian demon chasers
2018
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2019Sascia Reibel explores the popularity of Ikea Beijing and three iconic female coders
2019
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2012Sushi fans beware, these Chinese fish factory shots are beautiful but graphic
2012
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2013Graphic Design: Russian entrepreneurs have got it good thanks to Knopka and NB
2013
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2013Photography: Albert Elm captures Russia and China with a rose-tinted lens
2013
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2014Beautiful paintings of the drunkards and typists of the Russian ballet
2014
Motion
2021Annie Lai thoughtfully photographs young Chinese women in an exploration of emotional and physical home
2021
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2017Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
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2019Ronghui Chen photographs the young people of China's forgotten “Freezing Lands”
2019
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2017Alexander Chekmenev’s compelling photographs of elderly citizens in the newly independent Ukraine
2017
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2019Richard Kovacs’ experimental images of Albania reflect the ambiguity of the country
2019
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2015M.I.A and Gener8ion's new vid features 36,000 Chinese fighting school kids
2015
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2021Teodora Georgieva’s documentation of industrialisation in Bulgaria hints to a large-scale, global issue
2021
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2016Snapshots of commuters during China's typhoon season by Wiktoria Wojciechowska
2016
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2019Photographer Joe Newman documents a boxing gym for young people in a Ukrainian war zone
2019
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2012Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
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2015Jane Stockdale’s lush, personable photographs of the Kosovo Olympic team
2015
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2018Photographer Dima Komarov captures a sense of freedom in Russian youth culture
2018
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2019In Visions of Qinghai, Arnaud Lin depicts a diverse and rapidly changing Chinese province
2019
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20221413 is back with another playful ode to Chinese culture – this time focusing on medicine and wellness
2022
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2019Shuwei Liu combines David Bowie and Chinese mythology with a planet mushroom
2019
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2018Paris Syndrome: photographer Francois Prost explores a replica city in China
2018
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2017Catherine Hyland explores the vast, yet eerily barren tourist destinations of China and Mongolia
2017
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2022How you can win an original Melissa Kitty Jarram painting inspired by Beijing Silvermine
2022
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2020Maria Babikova documents the drag scene of Novosibirsk, exploring fear and joy in Russia
2020
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2020“We like to experiment, so many clients may find our work bizarre”: White Russian Studio on its unique practice
2020
Poster
2017Archival propaganda posters spotlight the graphic design of post-revolution Russia
2017
Publication
2018XXL Studio is an iconic Chinese graphic design studio producing exceptional book design
2018
Project
2012Ioana Cîrlig and Marin Raica get under the skin of post-communist Romania
2012
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2015Chinese animator Lei Lei reflects on sadness
2015
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2017Zhiyuan Yang's photos of her parents scrutinise China's nuclear family dynamics
2017
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2019Patrick Wassmann photographs the youthful existence in Mukachevo, Ukraine
2019
Motion
2017Max Litvinov’s avant-garde work is inspired by Soviet animations
2017
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2018From green summertimes to harsh winters, Pascual Martínez and Vincent Sáez document Romania
2018
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2013Opinion: Why the most interesting creative festival is to be found in Serbia
2013
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2016Minsk's Jouri Toreev's unusual abstract graphic design work
2016
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2018The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
Publication
2021The Cyrillic fonts of Kyiv Type Foundry are a homage to its favourite city
2021
Identity
2019Slovenian design studio Ljudje on how it turned the information crisis into a visual identity
2019
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2014Photography: Incredible shots of China's busy coastline from Zhang Xiao
2014
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2016Russian illustrator Katerina Voronina's angular characters captured in sumptuous tones
2016
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2022Mischelle Moy’s pleasant and dreamlike photography pays tribute to her Chinese heritage
2022
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2012Sami Kallio
2012
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2018Eating the Other explores the western fascination with Chinese traditional dress
2018
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2015Slick moving typographic designs for Moscow design festival from Universal Everything
2015
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2015Banging designs for a Berlin techno club by Serbian creative Vanja Golubovic
2015
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2019Sacred Shanghai: Liz Hingley photographs the spiritual renaissance of the city
2019
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2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
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2019Yunying Huang challenges the Eurocentric perception of techno-culture in China
2019
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201771-year-old, formerly homeless Romanian collage artist Ion Bârlādeanu opens first UK show
2017
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2012Ukrainian artist Lewel makes unashamedly crazy illustration
2012
Motion
2021Shanghai-based studio KauKau returns with a striking and multifaceted rebrand for Strong Noodle
2021
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2017Local Characters: Anna Kulachek typographically depicts her hometown of Moscow
2017
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2018Yang Qi’s work expresses a strong Chinese and German cultural background
2018
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2014Isabella Moore photographs the victims of Russia’s war on homosexuality
2014
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2016Frank Herfort explores the contrasts and contradictions of life in contemporary Russia
2016
Garment
2018Hailun Ma returns to China to document the vibrant and startling fashion of her hometown
2018
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2015Artist Andrey Remnev’s hypnotic Russian Medieval-style paintings
2015
Project
2020Luo Yang captures China’s Generation Z through an intimate lens
2020
Identity
2016Twelve studio’s rippling identity for Beijing new media studio
2016
Poster
2017New publication chronicles Soviet anti-alcohol posters throughout the ages
2017
Publication
2015Design with Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters explored in new book
2015
Project
2019Photographer Ioana Cirlig's Post-Industrial Stories looks at Romanian life after work
2019
Poster
2012Slovenian designer Zoran Pungerčar gives us festival fever with his posters
2012
Publication
2014Publication: FUEL's new book explores codes hidden in Russian prisoners' tattoos
2014
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2008The Russian Club
2008
Publication
2022Slovenia-based publishing house Look Back and Laugh prints innovative Risograph art books
2022
Identity
2016Ira Ivanova designs vibrant wristband-inspired identity for Moscow music festival
2016
Project
2019Clifford Jago returns with a bizarre, confusing but altogether joyful trip through Ukraine
2019
Motion
2019Mark Parascandola documents the scenery and sets of China’s booming film industry
2019
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2018Photographer Tom Skipp documented an annual peace march in Bosnia
2018
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2018“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
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2021JJ Lorenzo photographs a generation “marked by the frictions between East and West” in Ukraine
2021
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2017Photographer Noah Sheldon captures the “pride and physical confidence” of Shanghai Tower construction workers
2017
Motion
2016Romanian art director Bogdan Ceausescu creates retro-inspired posters for music and film
2016
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2019Lucia Sekerkova documents the rituals of Romania’s social media savvy witches
2019
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2019Moscow-based illustrator Katya Dorokhina chats through her new zine Chill Pill
2019
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2021Zoe Lowdermilk-Oppenheim’s moving project documents young Chinese women adopted into British families
2021
Typeface
2015A2SWHK and Margaret Calvert create new typeface to improve Moscow's transport
2015
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2016Photographer Lola Paprocka presents a love letter to Belgrade’s Brutalist estates
2016
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2019Another Design creates a vibrant visual system for Guangzhou Triennial
2019
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2014Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
Project
2022Chuqiao Liu's powerful photography offers a glimpse into contemporary China
2022
Project
2019Patrick Wack's photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China's new frontier
2019
Publication
2015Lost Magazine explores global travel from a uniquely Chinese perspective
2015
Publication
2015More sharp, strange work from Qiu Yang for T Magazine China
2015
Publication
2012A dreamy, woodland-inspired look book from Moscow's Lesya Paramonova
2012
Project
2014Chris Nunn immerses himself in the turbulent regions of Ukraine
2014
Project
2018Leslie Zhang's sentimental series Little Flexes is a "beautiful glimpse of China"
2018
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2012An eye-poppingly insane Slovenian hair salon from the Kitsch Nitsch design duo
2012
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2013Graphic Design: Russian cassette tapes of yesteryear were super cool
2013
Publication
2022Jaeyou Chung’s rebrand for Beijing’s X Museum features a type inspired by twisted dimensions and chair legs
2022
Poster
2016Russian designer Dima Shiryaev’s diverse poster designs for music nights
2016
Project
2015Anastasia Tsayder captures enormity of 1980's Moscow Olympics decades later
2015
Publication
2025Dancing In Utopia captures the trance-like communion of public square dancing in China
2025
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2020Hannah Yoon’s Restaurant Kids documents the children growing up in Chinese restaurants
2020
Project
2017A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
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2024The Filial Daughter孝女 by Mengyu Zhou is a tender story of Chinese womanhood
2024
Project
2020Suzy Chan left London’s academic design bubble to return to China to “do something and talk to people”
2020
Project
2012Zaha Hadid wows us again with stunning new Beijing development
2012
Typeface
2016Grilli Type designs new typeface inspired by Soviet children’s books
2016
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2019The Beijing Silvermine now consists of over one million photographs of Chinese history
2019
Project
2016Scott Newett’s eerily quiet, ethereal portraits of Chinese utopia
2016
Project
2018Luo Yang photographs modern Chinese girls in their natural habitats
2018
Publication
2021Designed to mirror a physical experience, Oriental Silk documents the first Chinese silk importing business in the US
2021
Photograph
2018Early Russian colour photography and Spaghetti Westerns collide in new book from S_U_N
2018
Poster
2015Matisse-inspired posters for Serbian Youth Day from designer Monika Lang
2015
Project
2014Event: A run-down of our very best bits of Belgrade's Resonate festival 2014
2014
Project
2019Cian Oba-Smith looks at China’s copycat architecture in his latest series
2019
Project
2014Photography: Mikhail Mishainik reveals the wonders of Russia's salt mines
2014
Identity
2014Graphic Design: Bunch create great identity for Croatian print studio Cervoski
2014
Poster
2015Shuka Bureau's whimsically exotic posters for Moscow art school
2015
Project
2015Serban Savu's wry realist renderings depict Romania's melancholic splendour
2015
Typeface
2020Willie Liu’s Dinkie Bitmap fits Chinese characters into a seven-pixel grid
2020
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2018Wang Wei’s series Young Wild & Free captures the fresh energy of Beijing youth
2018
Project
2025Kyiv Type Foundry is conserving the architectural heritage of Ukraine by pulling typefaces out from underground
2025
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2017A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
Project
2012Extraordinary work as Jonathan Frantini photographs Shanghai acrobats
2012
Publication
2014Illustrator Anne Simon's new comic book is a sinister ode to a Chinese Empress
2014
Project
2019Design 360°’s editors discuss the illustration and media scene in China
2019
Project
2016Larry Hallegua captures the humour and whimsy in China’s Chengdu
2016
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2022Provocative and playful, Beijing-based studio UDL takes creative control of a toy brand
2022
Photograph
2020Michael Bodenmann’s latest book creates a non-linear pictorial tapestry of his time in China
2020
Project
2024This charity photo project gave Ukrainian children disposable cameras to capture life through their eyes
2024
Project
2019Elena Subach shoots Ukrainian grannies to bridge the generation gap
2019
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2019Ony Agency on the rebrand of AZ Museum in Moscow
2019
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2024“The veiled and poetic subtlety of love between boys”: Yifei Xiang explores the Chinese queer experience
2024
Project
2022Yelena Yemchuk’s photo series Odesa documents a Ukrainian city undergoing momentous change
2022
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2012A pic-N-mix of beautiful aesthetics here from Holland's Ming Sing Ho!
2012
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2011China 2011: An artistic snapshot
2011
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2020Kukeri offers a glimpse into the ancient Bulgarian pagan ritual and how the practice has evolved for today
2020
Project
2017Wang Zhi-Hong’s work aims to highlight the “importance of text in Chinese graphic design”
2017
Project
2008Oglivy & Mather Beijing
2008
Identity
2024Monga’s identity for Ukrainian production company Control Freak is warm, retro and tactile
2024
Project
2020Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
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2023Challenging the female radical characters of Chinese with artist Zoe Cui
2023
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2022Inside the Beijing Silvermine: A unique archive of everyday China captured through discarded photography
2022
Project
2019In photographing the American west, Andong Zheng uncovers hidden traces of Chinese history
2019
Publication
2019The Shanghai Art Book Fair 2019 welcomed the creative industry’s big-wigs this weekend
2019
Typeface
2017Daniel Reed’s new typeface is inspired by the Chinese word “Kong”
2017
Project
2022It’s Nice That’s print sale for Ukraine includes artworks by Jean Jullien, Anthony Burrill, Kelly Anna and lots more
2022
Project
2020Who made the objects in your house? Ivy Li explores the vernacular visual language of Chinese migrant workers
2020
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2018Alex Vasilyev's compelling photographs of locals living in Russia's coldest region
2018
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2019Interior Lives documents the unassimilated lives of the largest Chinese population outside of Asia
2019