Hi, I'm Alina Basankina!
Graphic designer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in branding, print, and editorial design.
Currently working as a Lead Designer in internal communications at Yandex, creating internal content and event branding for a company of 25,000+ employees. Alongside this, I work on institutional and spatial projects, including merchandise for Pulkovo Airport and collaborations with art parks.
I have been published as a children’s book illustrator, mentor junior designers, and run workshops for teams outside the design field.
Winner of national and international design awards.

Hi, I'm Alina Basankina!
Graphic designer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in branding, print, and editorial design.
Currently working as a Lead Designer in internal communications at Yandex, creating internal content and event branding for a company of 25,000+ employees. Alongside this, I work on institutional and spatial projects, including merchandise for Pulkovo Airport and collaborations with art parks.
I have been published as a children’s book illustrator, mentor junior designers, and run workshops for teams outside the design field.
Winner of national and international design awards.
Hi, I'm Alina Basankina!
Graphic designer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in branding, print, and editorial design.
Currently working as a Lead Designer in internal communications at Yandex, creating internal content and event branding for a company of 25,000+ employees. Alongside this, I work on institutional and spatial projects, including merchandise for Pulkovo Airport and collaborations with art parks.
I have been published as a children’s book illustrator, mentor junior designers, and run workshops for teams outside the design field.
Winner of national and international design awards.

Selected Works
Updated: 30.4.2026
© Alina Basankina, 2026
Selected Works
Updated: 30.4.2026
Forms of Presence
An independently authored book about Nikola-Lenivets — the largest art park in Europe, located in the Kaluga region of Russia. Text, interviews, design were all created by Alina.
The book is structured around four elements (Air, Earth, Time, Fire) — each unlocking a different way of experiencing the place. A non-linear format lets readers move through it like a walk, setting their own path.
Built on fieldwork and interviews conducted on location.

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Forms of Presence
An independently authored book about Nikola-Lenivets — the largest art park in Europe, located in the Kaluga region of Russia. Text, interviews, design were all created by Alina.
The book is structured around four elements (Air, Earth, Time, Fire) — each unlocking a different way of experiencing the place. A non-linear format lets readers move through it like a walk, setting their own path.
Built on fieldwork and interviews conducted on location.

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Forms of Presence
An independently authored book about Nikola-Lenivets — the largest art park in Europe, located in the Kaluga region of Russia. Text, interviews, design were all created by Alina.
The book is structured around four elements (Air, Earth, Time, Fire) — each unlocking a different way of experiencing the place. A non-linear format lets readers move through it like a walk, setting their own path.
Built on fieldwork and interviews conducted on location.

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Merch for Pulkovo
Merch collection designed for Pulkovo Airport. Each item is printed with a curated checklist of St. Petersburg experiences — places, rituals, and moments that define the city. The owner marks completed points, adds personal notes, and forms their own impression of the trip. The garment gradually becomes a personalized travel record: not a generic souvenir, but a document of a specific journey made by a specific person. The interaction with the merch continues long after the flight home.

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Merch for Pulkovo
Merch collection designed for Pulkovo Airport. Each item is printed with a curated checklist of St. Petersburg experiences — places, rituals, and moments that define the city. The owner marks completed points, adds personal notes, and forms their own impression of the trip. The garment gradually becomes a personalized travel record: not a generic souvenir, but a document of a specific journey made by a specific person. The interaction with the merch continues long after the flight home.

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Merch for Pulkovo
Merch collection designed for Pulkovo Airport. Each item is printed with a curated checklist of St. Petersburg experiences — places, rituals, and moments that define the city. The owner marks completed points, adds personal notes, and forms their own impression of the trip. The garment gradually becomes a personalized travel record: not a generic souvenir, but a document of a specific journey made by a specific person. The interaction with the merch continues long after the flight home.

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Second Nature
Motion piece created for the international competition Saint Petersburg — Managua, theme: Design Planet. Award winner, motion design category.
The character portrait was drawn digitally by hand, then animated using Luma AI and refined in video editing software. An astronaut whose suit is slowly overtaken by flowers — until it disappears, leaving a planet made of bloom. About life finding its way through any shell.
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Alina Basankina
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Motion designer
Year
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2025
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Second Nature
Motion piece created for the international competition Saint Petersburg — Managua, theme: Design Planet. Award winner, motion design category.
The character portrait was drawn digitally by hand, then animated using Luma AI and refined in video editing software. An astronaut whose suit is slowly overtaken by flowers — until it disappears, leaving a planet made of bloom. About life finding its way through any shell.
Development
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Alina Basankina
Role
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Motion designer
Year
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2025
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Second Nature
Motion piece created for the international competition Saint Petersburg — Managua, theme: Design Planet. Award winner, motion design category.
The character portrait was drawn digitally by hand, then animated using Luma AI and refined in video editing software. An astronaut whose suit is slowly overtaken by flowers — until it disappears, leaving a planet made of bloom. About life finding its way through any shell.
Development
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Alina Basankina
Role
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Motion designer
Year
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2025
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Raw Forms
An exploration of material as a graphic tool. Each letter is a separate experiment — ink, dust, foil, fabric, wire and other substances shaped into letterforms. About form emerging from the nature of material, not imposed onto it.
Development
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Alina Basankina
Materials
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Ink, foil, fabric, wire etc.
Role
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Designer
Year
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2022

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Raw Forms
An exploration of material as a graphic tool. Each letter is a separate experiment — ink, dust, foil, fabric, wire and other substances shaped into letterforms. About form emerging from the nature of material, not imposed onto it.
Development
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Alina Basankina
Materials
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Ink, foil, fabric, wire etc.
Role
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Designer
Year
:
2022

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Raw Forms
An exploration of material as a graphic tool. Each letter is a separate experiment — ink, dust, foil, fabric, wire and other substances shaped into letterforms. About form emerging from the nature of material, not imposed onto it.
Development
:
Alina Basankina
Materials
:
Ink, foil, fabric, wire etc.
Role
:
Designer
Year
:
2022

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Hi, I'm Alina Basankina!
Graphic designer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in branding, print, and editorial design.
Currently working as a Lead Designer in internal communications at Yandex, creating internal content and event branding for a company of 25,000+ employees. Alongside this, I work on institutional and spatial projects, including merchandise for Pulkovo Airport and collaborations with art parks.
I have been published as a children’s book illustrator, mentor junior designers, and run workshops for teams outside the design field.
Winner of national and international design awards.

Selected Works
Updated: 30.4.2026
© Alina Basankina, 2026
Forms of Presence
An independently authored book about Nikola-Lenivets — the largest art park in Europe, located in the Kaluga region of Russia. Text, interviews, design were all created by Alina.
The book is structured around four elements (Air, Earth, Time, Fire) — each unlocking a different way of experiencing the place. A non-linear format lets readers move through it like a walk, setting their own path.
Built on fieldwork and interviews conducted on location.
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