Born in Moscow February 13, 1975, Lebedev is the son of the Russian writer
Tatyana Tolstaya and a member of the aristocratic
Tolstoy family. He graduated from
Moscow State School 57. He enrolled at
Faculty of Journalism at the
Moscow State University, but dropped out during his second year. He spent the following years working for a few design studios until 1995 when he founded his own company. According to The Best Travelled Master List, Lebedev is one of the very few people in the world and the only Russian who has travelled to each of the 193 countries of the World.
Artemy Lebedev Studio In 1995, Lebedev founded design studio WebDesign, which in 1998 was renamed the Artemy Lebedev Studio. The company has completed works in corporate identity, books, magazines, road signs, pictograms, graphical and physical interfaces, websites, industrial design, industrial graphics objects, and storefronts.
"Business lynch", "spanking" One of the headings of the site was that anyone could send Lebedev a graphic object or a website, and he, in turn, made up his critical opinion of this work. The column was called "Spanking" and was published quarterly. Later, the heading was renamed "Polit spanking". By 2006, the category was closed and removed from the site. On September 1 of the same year, the column was restored and called "Business Lynch", but now it was not only Lebedev who reviewed it. ==Controversies and sanctions==