Author Biography
Alexandra Sankova is the General Director and founder of the Moscow Design Museum, which was established in 2012 with the mission to collect, preserve, and promote the design heritage of Russia. The exhibitions she curated and co-curated at the museum include Soviet Design 1950–1980 (2016, 2017), Packaging Design. Made in Russia (2013), and Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design (2016), which received the Utopia Medal at the London Design Biennale 2016, History of Russian Design 1917-2017 (2017, 2018), The Design System in the USSR and many others. She founded the non-profit organisation New Graphics, which organized exhibitions and educational events with international experts in Russia, and was Senior Advisor for Cultural Affairs at the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Moscow. She is the author of 23 (IndexMarket, 2010), a collection of interviews with Russia’s pre-eminent designers, Soviet Space Graphics. Cosmic Visions from the USSR (Phaidon, 2020), and a co-author of Designed in the USSR: 1950–1989 (Phaidon, 2018), VNIITE - Discovering Utopia (Unit Editions, 2018), documentary Design territory. The Netherlands (2014), documentary History of Russian Design (2018).