32.7 Painting

Kolobanova Elena is an artist and a graphic designer. She has studied graphic design at Moscow State University of Textile Industry, Department of Fine and Applied Arts (2002- 2007). Her main interest lies within the field of editorial design with specialization in exploring the range of methods and graphic devices such as photographic editing, typographic treatments, book structures and materials. She has worked for various media as a freelance designer since 2007. Among others, Kolobanova participated in the project "Music on bones" (MAXXI, Rome). She is currently working at "CACAO" a magazine on innovative design and architecture based in Taiwan, with the head quarters in Taiwan, Sweden, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Berlin. For the exhibition “ZATO Soviet secret cities during the cold war” Kolobanova has created the diagrams and graphic design.