Chief typesetter Iskander Mukhamadeev at his workplace.

Photographer Yevgenia Filatova embarked on a voyage on a gas tanker from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to Seoul. Soon, communication stopped and studio employees (left to right: designer Anastasia Musayeva, head of graphic design department Yevgenia Ezhikova, photographer Anastasia Pakosh, manager Anna Frolova, manager Pavel Molchanov, chief typesetter Iskander Mukhamadeyev, desinger Yegor Zhgun, manager Raisa Primakova, manager Marina Potapova, content manager Daler Aliyerov, manager Yulia Figlovskaya, designer Yevgeny Zorin, manager Olga Kallaur, manager Yulia Nikolayeva, type designer Taisiya Lushenko, manager Natalya Afonina, designer Vladimir Pavlenko, designer Lyudmila Lyalina, designer Tatyana Buchneva, typesetter Nadezhda Efremova, head of production department Anastasia Prishchepa, typesetter Anna Olshevskaya, designer Sergei Nikolayev, typesetter Yaroslav Bondarenko, technologist Yevgeny Kuleshov, manager Inna Sidorova, coder Alena Malashenko, type designer Ksenia Yerulevich, designer Ivan Olenkevich, system administrator Andrei Nekrasov, designer Maria Ksenofontova, art director Timur Burbayev, manager Anna Grigoryeva, office manager Diana Novozhenina, designer Sofia Solomko, designer Yana Moskalyuk, manager Vsevolod Chagaev, photographer Leonid Danilov, lawyer Yevgeny Potanin, designer Alexey Sharshakov) decided to send her their greetings.

Graphic and type designer Igor Mustayev (front center) conducted a master class «Lettering. Chalk as an instrument» at the studio. Studio employees with their works (left to right): designer Olga Konovalova, intern Alexander Bogatov, typesetter Yaroslav Bondarenko, designer Ivan Olenkevich, designer Tatyana Buchneva, designer Mark Rodionov, coder Alena Malashenko, designer Lyudmila Lyalina, designer Vasily Dubovoy, manager Dmitry Loginov, type designer Taisiya Lushenko, typesetter Anna Golovina, manager Yulia Nikolaeva, type designer Ksenia Yerulevich, chief typesetter Iskander Mukhamadeyev, designer Dmitry Lamonov.

Weekend with Art. Lebedev Studio in Riga (Latvia): chief typesetter Iskander Mukhamadeyev delivers a lecture on typesetting.

Tver (left to right): chef barista Nastya Nikitina, typesetter Filipp Luschevsky, designers Olga Le and Iskander Mukhamadeev study the roasting process of Coffee Blend #330.

Studio employees celebrate the birthday of art director Erken Kagarov and present him with a personalized house plate.

Designer Iskander Mukhamadeyev who is back from his mission in USA (right), administrator Valentina Volkova and typesetter David Minasyan preparing burgers at the studio’s cafeteria.

Designer Iskander Mukhamadeyev at his workplace at the studio’s New York office.

Designer Iskander Mukhamadeyev examines color proof for the second edition of Yuriy Gordon’s Book of Letters From Аа to Яя.

Project manager Irina Ostasheva giving a haircut to designer Iskander Mukhamadeyev.

Traditional farewell surprise from the studio’s interns: this season it was carnival mirrors smartly planted throughout our headquarters.

Tatyana Devayeva has been working as an editor at the studio since mid-2004. Now Tanya is leaving Russia and time has come for the studio to say goodbye.