Art. Lebedev Studio is a

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firm in

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, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev. The studio creates industrial and

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for commercial entities and does not accept projects from private citizens and political or religious organizations. Its

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is "''Design will save the world.''" As of November 2011, it has five principal

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s and over 300 employees. The studio has its headquarters in

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, as well as other offices in

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

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and

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. Art. Lebedev Studio is owned by the

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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

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, and most recently industrial design. It has an educational center, a

publishing house Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

, a media department, and several software teams. In 2011, Russian advertising research company

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called them the leading web studio in Russia.

Website

The studio's official website is available in Russian and English. The Russian version of the site has technical advice in

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, XML,

XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text, or XSL Formatting Objects. These formats c ...

JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. Web browsers have ...

, CSS and other web technologies. 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.

Design work

Art. Lebedev Studio produced the design for Russian search engine

Yandex Yandex LLC ( rus, Яндекс, r=Yandeks, p=ˈjandəks) is a Russian technology company that provides Internet-related products and services including a web browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming ...

, financial group Alfa-Bank, the news sites Lenta.Ru and Gazeta.Ru and Russian promotional websites for

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

and

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

. They designed the Optimus Maximus keyboard, with customizable

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displays on every key, and the Just5 Brick mobile phone. They also won a public vote for the best redesign of the

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a rapid transit system in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. It serves the capital city of Moscow and the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy, and Kotelniki. Opened in 1935 with one l ...

map, in 2013.

References

External links

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Engadget - Art Lebedev details Optimus Popularis keyboard, puts Mini Six up for pre-order
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History and work

Website

Design work

See also

References

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