Artemy Andreyevich Lebedev () is a Russian designer and businessman. He is the founder of the design company

Art. Lebedev Studio Art. Lebedev Studio is a design firm in Russia, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev. The studio creates industrial and graphic design for commercial entities and does not accept projects from private citizens and political or religious organiza ...

. He is also an avid blogger, known for his rather provocative views and frequent usage of obscene language.

Biography

Lebedev is the son of the writer and public intellectual Tatyana Tolstaya and a member of the Russian aristocratic

Tolstoy family The House of Tolstoy, or Tolstoi (), is a family of Russian gentry that acceded to the Russian nobility, high aristocracy of the Russian Empire. The name ''Tolstoy'' is itself derived from the Russian adjective ( ). They are the descendants of ...

. After one year of studies at Parkville High School, he returned to Moscow, where he graduated from Moscow State School 57. He enrolled at Faculty of Journalism,

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

, but dropped out during his second year. He spent the following years working for a few design studios until 1995 when he founded his own company Art. Lebedev Studio. According to The Best Travelled Master List, Lebedev is one of the very few people in the world and the only Russian who has travelled to each of the 193 countries of the World. Artemy visited the Ukrainian city of

Mariupol Mariupol is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It is situated on the northern coast (Pryazovia) of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius, Kalmius River. Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was the tenth-largest city in the coun ...

, where he took pictures of the city and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, calling the experience 'my life small joys'.

"Artemy Lebedev Studio"

In 1995, Artemy Lebedev founded design studio in Russia, WebDesign, which in 1998 was renamed the Artemy Lebedev Studio. The company has completed more than two and a half thousand works, including corporate styles, books, magazines, road signs, pictograms, graphical and physical interfaces, websites, industrial design and industrial graphics objects, storefronts. On June 21, 2010, Artemiy announced the termination of the studio's work with Afisha magazine. Artemy stated in his blog that the basis for the decision was the phrase "fat aunts".

"Business lynch", "spanking"

One of the headings of the site was that anyone could send Lebedev a graphic object or a website, and he, in turn, made up his critical opinion of this work. The column was called "Spanking" and was published quarterly. Later, the heading was renamed "Polit spanking". By 2006, the category was closed and removed from the site. On September 1 of the same year, the column was restored and called "Business Lynch", but now it was not only Lebedev who reviewed it. On September 1, 2019, the project was terminated.

Sanctions

In 2024, Lebedev was barred from entering Latvia. He was also blacklisted by Ukraine for his support towards the Russian invasion.

References

1975 births Living people Russian designers Businesspeople from Moscow Tolstoy family Russian male bloggers Russian bloggers Russian YouTubers Russian podcasters Russian atheists Russian inventors Businesspeople in computing Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class {{Russia-bio-stub