Fascinating Illustrations from Art. Lebedev Studio (Russia)
Some amazing illustrations by the artists of Art. Lebedev Studio, the biggest design studio in Russia, where their collected illustration works are provided as monthly downloadable PDFs on their Illustrators’ Works page. Currently. 34 issues are downloadable, totalling 144 MB.
There’s a lot of different styles of illustrations and photos ranging from claymation, anime and cartoon influenced artwork, illustrations of modern scenes, architectural designs and product posters/advertisements . The captions are in Cyrillic so I have absolutely no idea who the clients and illustrators are – the first line should the client and the second – the name of the artist.
I have shrinked the images to fit the blog but the issue and page numbers are referenced so you can view the original sized image by downloading the issue for any of the featured images below.
© Art. Lebedev Studio
Cute handphones, probably for some telco company (Feb 2005 p.16)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
Caricatures of Magaret Thatcher and Otto von Bismarck for ELLE magazine (probably the Russian edition) ( Mar 2005 Pg.17)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
A delicious illustration of berries (Mar 2005 p. 66)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
Che Guevara using a shaver? (Dec 2005 p.22)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
My favourite illustration depicting a SWAT bomb defusal personnel attempting to defuse a bomb with assistance from a manual. (Dec 2005 p. 20)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
Habbo-style illustration (Jan 2006 p.20)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
A drummer grrl. Most probably by Yelena Dolgova. (May 2006 p.36)
© Art. Lebedev Studio
Tattooed guy (May 2006 p.38)
Some of my other favourite issues – Sep 2004, Oct 2004, Nov 2004, Oct 2005, Oct 2006, which are downloadable from the Illustrators’ Works page.
From the Art. Lebedev Studio illustrators page, you can view selected works from the portfolio of each staff and freelance illustrator. I really like the artwork of Dmitry Choybolsan, Egor Zhgun and Evgeny Zhelvakov.
You can also view other design works by Art. Lebedev Studio at the portfolio page which includes graphic design, website, UI (user interface) and object designs.
Art. Lebedev Studio also has an online store selling illustrations and other merchandise like this set of six emoticon cushions named Ridibundus.
© Art Lebedev Studio
They even have a reseller Emjay Enterprises Pte Ltd selling these cushions in SG 
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now that was refreshing, the bomb disposal caricature drew a giggle, excellent links a a great find mr.munkey….
yep, the best part is that I have absolutely zero idea how I found Art. Lebedev in the first place …
…you’ve got the gift… gnome has it too… an uncanny ability to find really cool stuff nobody else can, course Gnome cheats and uses a magic wand…..
haha, gnome uses a magic wand? Just visited Just Walls minutes ago, you have the same uncanny ability to sniff out wallpapers from games that I have never heard of too …