Igor' Aleksandrovich Kominarets was a Soviet graphic artist and illustrator who chiefly worked in the field of poster design. Having a skill for drafting, his designs were distinguished by their precise technical execution. Kominarets received his art education at VGIK (All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) in Moscow. Throughout his professional career, the artist designed posters for the publishing houses of Iskusstvo (Art), IzoGiz (State Publishing House of Fine Art), Plakat (Poster), and Enlightenment (Prosveshchenie). Kominarets ...

The 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop was named in honor of Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (1896-1948), a Soviet military leader and a senior member of the Politburo who died in 1948. Reportedly, Andrei Zhdanov controlled the atomic espionage division of the USSR and he was Josef Stalin's closest confidant. Historically, the 1st Exemplary Typography Workshop began as the Sharapov-Sytin Partnerhip, a printing workshop formed before the Russian Revolution. Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934) was the son of a peasant. ...

The history of IzoGiz begins with the formation of Ogiz, the Association of the State Book and Magazine Publishers. In 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic established Ogiz to centralize publishing under a monopoly in order to eliminate duplication of printed material, to streamline and control publishing production and its output, and to create a base for marketing books, training and technical manuals. In 1931, the Central Committee of the USSR ordered certain ...