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:

Design of the “Short Works of Great Philosophers” series for Synteza Publishing, and the design of its first title — the...
05/06/2025

Design of the “Short Works of Great Philosophers” series for Synteza Publishing, and the design of its first title — the Ukrainian translation of Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

XX, 124 pages. 130×200 mm. OTA glue binding with lay-flat opening. Offset printing using one CMYK colour and two Pantone spot colours.
Printed on Munken Print Cream and Pure Rough by Arctic Paper.
Typefaces: Periodica, Alethia Next by Minttype
Translated from German by: Anna-Maria Kotliarova
Primary academic editor: Viktor Chornyi
Secondary academic editor: Ivan Ivashchenko
Literary editor: Oleksandr Stukalo
Proofreading: Anzhela Prystavska
Foreword: Ivan Ivashchenko
Afterword, notes, glossary, indexes: Anna-Maria Kotliarova
Published with the support of the Austrian Cooperation Office in Lviv and Ukraine Office Austria
Printer: Publish Pro
Art direction and design: Oleksii Salnykov, Sasha Bychenko

The inaugural issue of Pomizh Magazine .media has been nominated for the 2025 European Design Awards Here is our statem...
14/04/2025

The inaugural issue of Pomizh Magazine .media has been nominated for the 2025 European Design Awards

Here is our statement.

Since the beginning of russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014 — and especially after the full-scale invasion in 2022 — Ukrainians have come to see their cities in a new light. For the fourth year in a row, towns and cities across Ukraine — the largest country in Europe by landmass — have been under constant russian attacks: drones, ballistic and cruise missiles, artillery, and aerial bombs. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their hometowns, while cities like Dnipro have become relatively safer shelters for the displaced. We’ve learned to love our cities differently — the ones we were born and raised in, the ones we live in now, and the ones currently under occupation or reduced to ruins by russia.

Pomizh Magazine is a love letter to our hometown. Its publication reflects a broader movement across Ukraine: a growing public interest in the history and culture of our cities and regions. In recent years, independent regional magazines have appeared in many Ukrainian cities, often as a quiet response to challenges that much of Europe has not faced for generations.

In the spring and summer of 2024, during the production of this magazine, Dnipro endured several devastating missile strikes. In the past month alone — despite russia’s cynical talk of a “ceasefire” — the number of attacks has only increased. Homes have been destroyed or damaged, civilian infrastructure is under deliberate assault, and adults and children alike have been killed. We don’t need to remind anyone that many of Ukraine’s soldiers were civilians not long ago — people who might have worked with us on this very magazine, had they not had to stand up and defend their country.

The news of our nomination at this year’s European Design Awards brings us joy, of course — but we’re not celebrating. For us, Pomizh appearing on the shortlist is a message to our European colleagues: a reminder of what russia is trying to destroy — not only our cities and people, but our shared — European — values.

A teaser of THE teaser.
10/03/2025

A teaser of THE teaser.

The inaugural issue of Pomizh Magazine has been awarded Best Book Design of 2024, taking home the Grand Prix and claimin...
11/12/2024

The inaugural issue of Pomizh Magazine has been awarded Best Book Design of 2024, taking home the Grand Prix and claiming victory in the Utilitarian Book category.

Designed by Sasha Bychenko with production led by Ruslan Fokin, and color correction by Volodymyr Havrysh.

Typefaces: Varp, Nyght Serif by Maksym Kobuzan, Periodica by Mint Type, Helvetica Neue by Linotype.

Publisher: Kultura Medialna
Find it here: 👉 ПОМІЖ 👈

Printed by Publish Pro
Paper: Pergraphica Natural Rough by Mondi Group

First photo by Oleksandr Popenko

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29/11/2024

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The inaugural issue of “POMIZH” magazine focuses on the city of Dnipro, created by the city’s own residents and dedicate...
27/09/2024

The inaugural issue of “POMIZH” magazine focuses on the city of Dnipro, created by the city’s own residents and dedicated to its culture, history, everyday life, and inhabitants. This first edition features articles reevaluating Dnipro’s historical and cultural heritage, local literary myths, music, cityscapes, and life during wartime.

“POMIZH” (from Ukrainian ‘between’) serves as a metaphor for being on the edge—whether geographical or temporal—embodying uncertainty and transition, existing at the cusp of war and peace. It also explores the life of this steppe region, historically a borderland between east and west, north and south; an area that in ancient times acted as a ‘buffer zone’ between settled communities and nomads from the east, was a base for the Zaporizhian Cossacks, and since 2014, has become Ukraine’s ‘frontline’ in the war against Russia.
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