Andrey Logvin

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Andrey Logvin (born April 4, 1964, in Ipatovo, Russia) is a leading Soviet and Russian poster artist, graphic designer and advertising designer. He is an Academician of graphic design and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Logvin has won more than 30 international and Russian design awards, and he received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and art for 2000. He is listed among the world’s top graphic designers in major reference works, and a monograph about his work appeared in 2004.

Logvin studied at the Ipatovo Art School and Moscow Art School, graduating in 1987 in industrial graphics. He began his career at Promgrafika and later served as art director of IMA-Press. In 1996 he founded LOGVINDESIGN, a virtual advertising group, and since 1999 has taught at the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Graphic Design and continues his professional work as a designer and educator. One of his best-known posters is Life Is a Success (1997), a sharp, ironic comment on post-Soviet Russia and the rise of a new bourgeois class. Other notable works include It is sad without a label! (1995) and the NUL… poster for the French Ministry of National Education, promoting human rights. Life Is a Success is part of major collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery.

Logvin’s posters have been shown at international festivals and published in many publications. In 2007 LOGVINDESIGN created a coal poster to mark the Kaliningrad Centre for Contemporary Arts’ 10th anniversary. He also produced Taste of Life for Krasnoyarsk Museum Night (2005). The poster NUL… and other works reflect his engagement with social and cultural ideas.

Beyond his own work, Logvin has taught and lectured worldwide, sharing an intense, workshop-style approach. He has given master-classes in Switzerland, Turkey, France, Ukraine, China and Mexico, earning a reputation for fast-paced, highly interactive teaching.