On the occasion of the 120. birthday of Aleksandr Rodchenko, the great russian artist, graphic designer and photographer, twenty of the best current russian poster artists got together in a project "Rodchenko 120" to design a poster in his memory. The posters are currently shown in an exhibition in Moscow as part of the "Moscow Design Week" and are all in Sergei Serov's blog on Livejournal. As Serov writes "The posters are not only a tribute to the great artist, but a reflection on the historical destiny of graphic design".

Aleksandr Lavrent'ev

Boris Trofimov (based on a self portrait by Rodchenko)

Evgenii Dobrovinskii

Dima Kavko

Dmitrii Rekin

Vladimir Chaika

Igor Gurovich

Tagir Safaev

Erken Kagarov

Dmitrii Zakharov

Erik Belousov

Protei Temen

Andrei Sheliutto

Elena Kitaeva

Nikolai Shtok

Iurii Surkov

Andrei Logvin

Petr Bankov

Iurii Gulitov

The Faldin Family

Below are some posters from Rodchenko, some made in cooperation with Vladimir Maiakovskii, see the Rodchenko link list for the picture sources. While Rodchenko clearly aimed to change the world (and did), he is today remembered mainly for his posters of the most trivial or ordinary things, like pacifiers for babies, rubber boots, books. Like Cheret for lamp oil, Topulouse-Lautrec for night clubs, Cassandre for tourist posters, Lucian Bernhard for matches, Leupin for mineral water..

1923, Workers, expensiveness and NEP don't scare us

1924, Trade union poster

1924, Read the "Molodaya gvardiya"("Young guard") magazine

1929, theater poster for the play "Klop" (bedbug), set in 1979, the far future

1923, Advertisement for GUM. The most business, the tidiest

1923, Advertisement for GUM. Visitors from dachas, towns and villages

1925, "Nowhere else but Mosselprome" (a departement store)

1925, The Trehgornoe Beer will drive out hypocrites and samogon

1923, "There are no better dummies than old suckers", poster for rubber pacifiers from the Rezinotrest company (reprint 1961)

1924, Rubber boots from Rezinotrest

1924, Rubber boots from Rezinotrest

1924, Rubber boots from Rezinotrest

1925, Rubber boots from Rezinotrest

1925, Rubber boots from Rezinotrest

1923, Poster for the state airline Dobrolet

1923, Dobrolet, Moscow - Nizhni Novgorod in 2 1/2 hours

1923, Become a shareholder at Dobrolet for 1 Rubel

1923, Dobrolet. Shame on you! Your name is still not in the lists of volunteer air force society shareholders

1923, Poster for the state airline Dobrolet

1923, Poster for the state airline Dobrolet

1925, Poster for the state airline Dobrolet

1925, Lengiz. Books on all the branches of knowledge (reprint 1961). This poster has become the source for many imitations.

1925, The Red Army soldier brings books of Gosizdat Publishers into every house

1925, Trade union is a defender of female labour

1924, The cinema eye, series of 6 movies

1925, Death ray, movie poster

1925, Battleship Potemkin, movie poster

1926, On sixth of the world, movie poster

1925, Battleship Potemkin, movie poster

1925, Battleship Potemkin, movie poster