Kultura Studio

Kultura Studio You used to know us as Numo Team since 2017. But the world is changing. So are we. In 2021 we become Kultura. Kultura is a multidisciplinary skillful design team.

Run by Alexey Salnykov and Sasha Bychenko.

👀A closer look at our art direction for the long-awaited return of . Issue 1: «Pleasure-Seeking in a Deranged World» spa...
15/05/2026

👀A closer look at our art direction for the long-awaited return of . Issue 1: «Pleasure-Seeking in a Deranged World» spans 144 pages of meticulous editorial work, balancing immersive long-reads with the arresting photography of the magazine’s global contributors.

For us, this project went beyond mere layout assembly. It was about crafting a tactile vessel for essential narratives — from the streets of Lagos to the kitchens of Rome, and from the definitive “R&K 50” culinary list to urgent journalism from Gaza and Caracas. Opening with a poignant letter to late partner Anthony Bourdain, the volume establishes itself as both a manifesto and a travelogue.

Check the slides for some desk scans, highlighting the specific layout details and paper textures. 🔎

Grateful to the whole R&K team for the trust. 🖤

Co-founders & Publishers: Nathan Thornburgh and Matt Goulding
Executive Editor: Charly Wilder
Editor at Large: José Andrés
Creative Lead: Doug Hughmanick
Cover art by
Art Direction and Design: Kultura Oleksii Salnykov .salio and Sasha Bychenko

We’re happy to share that Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview 🟡 has won Best Book Design 2025 by in the ...
05/01/2026

We’re happy to share that Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview 🟡 has won Best Book Design 2025 by in the Text Book category. 🏆

😼Oleksii Salnykov on the project:

This book is about attention to intonation. Its visual image reflects Sontag’s character itself: sharp, dense, and demanding focus. The bright sticker interrupts this rhythm as a distinct visual and tactile gesture, shifting the pace — much like Jonathan Cott’s questions disrupt the balance of the conversation and make the interview so powerful.

For me, this work is part of a broader collective process shaped together with colleagues. Each year, Best Book Design more clearly demonstrates how a diversity of voices, methods, and approaches can form a shared language — one that is shaping contemporary Ukrainian visual culture. ✊

Publisher: Osnovy Publishing
Design: Oleksii Salnykov .salio & Sasha Bychenko
Typefaces: NineElms (Dalton Maag .maag), Segment & Murs Gothic (Maksym Kobuzan )
Technical editor: Mykola Klymchuk
Printing: .pro, head of printing Ruslan Fokin
Paper: Munken by , Colorplan by

Another longlisted book for Best Book Design 2025 by ✨“Snoviyko and Other Tales”, published by Osnovy, presents Hans Ch...
22/12/2025

Another longlisted book for Best Book Design 2025 by ✨

“Snoviyko and Other Tales”, published by Osnovy, presents Hans Christian Andersen’s tales based on the first Ukrainian edition from 1873. The project brings together the very first Ukrainian translation by Mykhailo Starytsky and illustrations by Mykola Murashko, reassembled in a contemporary edition.

This project is about continuity and care: honoring the logic, scale, and spirit of the original edition, while reconstructing it with contemporary tools, technologies, and visual language. We describe this approach in our text “Ship of Theseus”, included in the book alongside other art and literary texts by Nadiia Bashtova, Volodymyr Panchenko, and Valeria Pitenina.

Idea & concept: Andriy Vyshnevsky .vyshnevsky
Design: Sasha Bychenko and Oleksii Salnykov .salio
Typefaces: Custom version of Klynok Display by Kateryna Korolevtseva and Kamenyar by Zakhar Kryvoshyya
Image prepress: Yana Staryk
Technical editor: Mykola Klymchuk
Printed by: .pro
Head of printing: Ruslan Fokin
Paper: by , by
Publisher:

Proud moment 💙 This first print magazine by The Kyiv Independent has been longlisted for Best Book Design 2025 by Desi...
16/12/2025

Proud moment 💙 This first print magazine by The Kyiv Independent has been longlisted for Best Book Design 2025 by
Designed and printed in Ukraine, it captures the country three years into russia’s full-scale war. From the battlefields of Donbas to the streets of Kyiv, it weaves together stories of coming of age under invasion, resilient businesses, artists and activists, and the long journeys home from the front by train. A quiet, material tribute to the Ukrainian spirit — and a reminder that even in the darkest times, form can carry memory, dignity, and hope.

Design: Sasha Bychenko and Oleksii Salnykov .salio
Photo on cover:
Photo Editor:
Color correction: Volodymyr Havrysh 
Typeface: Kamenyar
Printed by .pro
Paper: by 
Publisher:

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