Born in the Russian city of
Perm, Vladimir Radunsky grew up in Moscow where he studied fine art, design and architecture. In 1973, he studied at the
Moscow Architectural Institute. In 1982, he emigrated to New York, became a US citizen, and continued his work as a graphic designer, producing mainly art books and children's books. Radunsky produced very different types of books, such as a book of shapes for young readers,
Square Triangle Round Skinny (a set of four books shaped the way their titles suggest);
Discovery, a lyrical poem by Nobel-prize winner
Joseph Brodsky about the discovery of America, and
What Does Peace Feel Like?, a compilation of conversations with children during school visits in the US and Europe. His interactive book,
Le Grand Bazar, subtitled
For people with imagination age 5 to 105 (published in Paris by Edition du Panama), requires the reader to use scissors, pen, and stapler.
Boy Meets Girl is to be read forward, backward, upside down and inside out.
The Mighty Asparagus (Harcourt) combines the works of Italian Renaissance painters with his own paintings in a collage. The
Hip-Hop Dog, written by
Chris Raschka (HarperCollins), is hip-hop poetry for children, where graffiti art has migrated from walls into a printed book. For his exhibition at Milanese gallery Nina Due and, subsequently, at the
Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Radunsky presented a unique collection of clothes for animals. Among the works that he designed were an anaconda's wedding dress, a horse's riding breeches, and a hippo's bathing trunks. For the new production of the ballet Don Quixote at the Roman Teatro dell'Opera's 2017–2018 season, Radunsky created the set and costumes. The
libretto, originally created in the middle of the nineteenth century by the French Choreographer
Marius Petipa, inspired Radunsky to design the set as an enormous
pop-up book. ==Death and family==