If you’re in Belgium, you must check this out. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM (Brussels Design Museum) present: Soviet Design. Red Wealth, the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century.
Open until 21.05.2018. Info: http://adamuseum.be/expositions-soviet-design-red-wealth/
Now wouldn’t it be great to do a meet-up in Brussels! I wish, I wish :)
Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels (via)
Tea set manufactured by Baranovsky Porcelain Factory, USSR 1960s
(Collection of Moscow Design Museum)
USSR-made portable radio receivers from 1950s (via thngs)
August 9 is Tove Jansson’s birthday! The first photo here is the first of her books ever published in the Soviet Union (Moomins and the Comet Chase). The second photo shows all of her books published in the USSR. Most of her works were published in 1991-1992 - after the Soviet era.
You can find a comprehensive list of all Jansson’s book published in Russian here.
A small collection of 10 Soviet buttons with an USA theme.
Buttons read things like “Photography in USA”, “Research in USA”, “USA design” etc. These pins were produced to accompany themed exhibitions that were held in the USSR during the perestroika period. Like this one, for example.
Buy: http://etsy.me/2DsbnIL
USSR-made portable radio receivers from 1960s and 1980s (via )
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov