Art. Lebedev Studio
Encyclopedia
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 November 2011, they have five principal art director
s and over 200 employees.
According to the rating of Russian advertising research company AdMe, Art. Lebedev Studio is the leading web studio in Russia.
Art. Lebedev Studio is owned by the holding company
Art. Lebedev Group (ALG), which owns several other design and advertising companies.
, web design
, and most recently industrial design. It has an educational center, a publishing house, a media department, and several software teams.
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.
, the news sites Lenta.Ru
and Gazeta.Ru and Russian promotional websites for Microsoft
and Intel.
The studio released the Optimus Maximus keyboard, with customizable Organic light-emitting diode
displays on every key.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev.
The studio creates industrial
Industrial design
Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...
and graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
for commercial entities and doesn't accept work from private citizens and political or religious organizations. Its motto
Motto
A motto is a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of a social group or organization. A motto may be in any language, but Latin is the most used. The local language is usual in the mottoes of governments...
is "Design will save the world." As of November 2011, they have five principal art director
Art director
The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
s and over 200 employees.
According to the rating of Russian advertising research company AdMe, Art. Lebedev Studio is the leading web studio in Russia.
Art. Lebedev Studio is owned by the holding company
Holding company
A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow...
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 interfacesUser interface
The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...
, web design
Web design
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser...
, 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
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
, XML, XSLT
XSLT
XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,...
, JavaScript
JavaScript
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
, CSS
CSS
-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
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.
Design work
Art. Lebedev Studio produced the design for Russian search engine YandexYandex
Yandex is a Russian IT company which operates the largest search engine in Russia and develops a number of Internet-based services and products. Yandex is ranked as 5-th world largest search engine...
, the news sites Lenta.Ru
Lenta.Ru
Lenta.Ru is a Moscow-based news website in Russian language, owned by Rambler Media Group which belongs to Prof-Media. It is considered one of the most popular Russian language online resources with over 600 thousand visitors daily....
and Gazeta.Ru and Russian promotional websites for Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
and Intel.
The studio released the Optimus Maximus keyboard, with customizable Organic light-emitting diode
Organic light-emitting diode
An OLED is a light-emitting diode in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compounds which emit light in response to an electric current. This layer of organic semiconductor material is situated between two electrodes...
displays on every key.
See also
- ParserParser (CGI language)Parser is a free server-side CGI web scripting language developed by Art. Lebedev Studio and released under the GPL.Originally, Parser was merely a simple macro processing language...
, a web scripting language developed by the studio for its web projects and released as free softwareFree softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
.