The Art. Lebedev Studio is the largest design company in Russia, founded in 1995 by Artemy Lebedev. This company has it’s fingers in a lot of pies including industrial design, graphic design, web design, and interface engineering. I found about this site by accident when try find some interesting desktop background on Google images. When looking around the site I found it very interesting. As a design company it has lots of really cool ideas for real world products and has a very different view on product design. With lots of different things the company makes, I was shocked to find out that they also make computer parts.

Most interesting is a product called Optimus keyboard (pictured left). Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment. Personally, I don’t think that I am going to be rushing out to get one just yet as, looking at the Art. Lebedev store, the prices that seem to start at $1400, which is a little out of my range. It is still very interesting to look around the everything part of the site and see all the idea they have.

There is also I never nice set of desktop backgrounds, which are entitled posters which are free to download and use on your own computer. Personally I love the background called, New directions and I used it as my background for many months.

It is nice to see stuff like this, with some much of the internet full of rubbish. Hope you enjoyed the site.