Art. Lebedev Studio

Infobox Website
name = Art. Lebedev Studio
url = http://www.artlebedev.com/


commercial = Yes
type = Design
registration = Optional
owner = Artemy Lebedev
author = Art. Lebedev Studio

Art. Lebedev Studio is a design company in Russia, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev.

The studio creates industrial and graphic design for commercial entities and doesn't accept work from private citizens and political or religious organizations. Its motto is "Design will save the world." As of December 2007, they have six principal art directors and over 200 employees. [ [http://www.artlebedev.com/studio/ A few words about Art. Lebedev Studio] ]

According to the rating of Russian advertising research company AdMe, Art. Lebedev Studio is the leading web studio in Russia. [ [http://www.adme.ru/research/2007/04/04/16614/ Результаты рейтинга: TOP-100 ведущих веб-студий 2007, AdMe.ru] ]

Art. Lebedev Studio is owned by the holding company Art. Lebedev Group (ALG), which owns several other design and advertising companies.

History and work

The studio began with graphic design, then expanded to include interfaces, web design, and most recently industrial design. It has an educational center, a publishing house, a media department, and several software teams.

Website

The studio's official website is available in Russian and English. Examples of work in the portfolio are often explained in detail.

The Russian version of the site has technical advice in HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS and other web technologies.

To accentuate the studio's particular attention to typesetting, the site is typeset as if it were a printed book; for example, punctuation marks and characters which extend to the left (Ф, О, Т, V, т and several others) are rendered several pixels to the left when they are at the beginning of a line [ [http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/120/ Artemy Lebedev's .com-Mandership, § 120. Hanging punctuation] ] .

Notable design works

Among their notable web design works are the Russian search engine Yandex, the news sites Lenta.Ru and Gazeta.Ru and Russian promotional websites for Microsoft and Intel.

The studio received extensive media coverage for the Optimus Maximus keyboard, with customizable graphical displays on every key.

In 2007 Art. Lebedev Studio designed the inaugural issue of Russia! magazine, an English-language periodical about Russia.Fact|date=May 2008

See also

* Parser, a web scripting language developed by the studio for its web projects and released as free software.

References

External links

* [http://www.artlebedev.com/ Official web site]