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.

Designer Alexey Sharshakov with a full-size mock-up of Veloparkus-2 bicycle parking rack.

Designer Alexey Sharshakov decorates the café on the seventh floor of the studio with the Inventors’ and Innovators’ Day poster.

Studio designer Aleksey Sharshakov and head of the clock division of Expertiza-R Nikolay Lavrenov testing the Tsiferblatus clocks.

Melancholia album by Lori! Lori!

Designer Alexey Sharshakov, designer Alexey Ivashkevich and art director Timur Burbayev remove the Svintus master model from a silicone matrix mold.

“Snouts” for Svintus prototype, the power strip’s PLA structural backbone grown on 3D printer.

Designers Alexei Sharshakov and Vladimir Pavlenko testing a bottle of sweet cranberry liqueur Russian North, now available in stores around the country.

The industrial design department field-testing Moscow navigation panel prototype in the studio’s courtyard.

Ceramic samples are being studied in the industrial design department and the palette for the new edition of Atmark 2.0 mugs is being chosen.

Designer Alexei Sharshakov assembling Maketikus utility knife prototype.

Designer Alexei Sharshakov with a Lampus task lamp life-size model.

Testing Isiklarius traffic light prototype. From left: designers Andrey Fabishevsky and Alexei Sharshakov, art director Timur Burbayev, and modeller Aleksander Pozdeyev.

Designer Alexei Sharshakov building a working prototype for the wall-mounted Rozetkus.

Designer Alexei Sharshakov figuring out the LED panel for Isiklarius traffic light working prototype.

Designer Alexei Sharshakov and life-size Svintus piggy bank model.

Designer Alexei Sharshakov demonstrating the new bottle for Russian North vodka.

In rare minutes of rest designer Alexey Sharshakov cranks up his PT-3 gramophone and listens to Klavdia Shulzhenko perform “Where are you, fellow soldiers?”

Left to right: modeler Alexander Pozdeyev, visualizer Philipp Gorbachev, designer Vasily Markin, director Andrey Dyakov, artistic director Artemy Lebedev, designers Andrey Fabishevsky, Alexey Sharshakov, Maria Borzilova, art director Timur Burbayev and business development manager Evgeniy Volodin demonstrate volumetric mock-ups of Isiklarius traffic lights developed at the studio for Istanbul streets by the request of Isbak and Istanbul City Council.

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.