aleksei gan

Cover of SA magazine, issues 5–6, 1926.
series of editorials on prominent designers
aleksei gan was an artist, graphic designer, and design theorist who is considered one of the key figures of russian constructivism. he wrote an influential manifesto for the movement and created different types of artworks, from magazines to buildings.
before joining the communist party in the early 1920’s, he was an anarchist, which likely led to his arrest and subsequent execution by stalinist secret police in 1942.