The studio’s Big Café is hosting a yearly meeting of our partner stores representatives. Ambassadors from: Zero Gravity (Saratov), Assembly Point (Yoshkar-Ola), Asdfghjkl (Nizhny Novgorod), Barely Decent (Odessa), The Improved Version (Penza), Somewhere Here (Tver), Design Stuff (Magnitogorsk), and employees from our Moscow and Kiev headquarters.

The studio’s new store Sho Za Shop opened in Kiev (street tunnel under Lev Tolstoy Square) on March 1. Pictured: Olga Liptuga (left), director of Odessa partner store Na Grani Prilichiya, and Elena Kulikova, general manager of the studio’s Kiev office.

Our Kiev team end-of-year picture (see also staff photo from our Moscow headquarters www.artlebedev.com/studio/us/2011.)