Nikita Sapozhkov is a type and graphic designer whose expertise involves type development and extensive experimentation in the field. With this experience, he crafts unique wordmarks, letterings, and strong visual systems for brands, special projects, individuals, as well as cultural and art institutions.
Founder, Creative Director and lettering artist at the creative group “Any Letters Here — ALH”
For collaboration and commissioned work don’t hesitate to write:
nikita.sapozhkov.alh@gmail.com
Selected clients
Street beat • Aa-Library • Asics • Nike • Clan Six • Yandex
Talks and Lectures
• Royal Academy of Art the Hague (KABK), 2023
• BHSD, 2022
• British higher school of art & design, 2018–today
• Type Design Workshop, 2021
• Plenum Agency. Lecture, 2021
• Type Design Workshop, 2020
• Geek Brains online Academy, 2020
• Moscow University of printing arts, 2017–2020
• Type Design Workshop. Lecture about typedesign and responsive lettering, 2019
• Placeholder. Lecture: “Type design: from love to hate and back”, 2019
• Lettering workshop at the Placeholder library, 2019
• British higher school of art & design. Lecture, 2018
• Type Design Workshop. Lection about type tools and type workflows, 2018
Nominations and Awards
2020
• Tokyo TDC competition. Wordmark for “Vetvi Flowers” was selected as one of the works deemed “excellent”.
• The Communication Arts Award for the “CoFo Farm Specimen”.
2018
• Short-list of the “TYPOMANIA” international typography festival.
• The short-list of the “4th Block” posters competition.
2017
• The international book design competition “Image of the Book”. Laureate in the nomination “Best Book Design” for the design of a book about the modern typeface “Holz”.
• Short-list of the “TYPOMANIA” international type festival.
• The short-list of the posters exhibition “Nicosia, the City of Utopia”.
• The short-list of the “Weltformat” competition. Theme “Detours”.
2016
• “Image of the Book”. Diploma in the nomination “Best Book Design“ for the graphic design of the novel “The Old Man and the Sea” by E. Hemingway.
• “Image of the Book”. Diploma in the nomination “Best Book Design“ for the design layout of the collection of poems by M. Tsvetaeva.
• The short-list of the international poster competition “FUKUDA!”. Art space “ARTBasement” as part of the Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design “Golden Bee 12”.
• Short-list of the “TYPOMANIA”. Project ”Type_Code”. Logo shot generated in processing.
• Laureate of the competition “Fire Book”, for the design of the story “The Old Man and the Sea”.
2015
• The short-list of the posters exhibition “Edible-Inedible”.
2014
• “Image of the Book”. Diploma in the nomination “new names in book illustration” for the design of the book “my house”.
Featured in
• Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2021 “Tokyo TDC Vol.32”, 2020
• Communication Arts Award Typography Annual 11, the January/February 2021 issue, 2020
• Ficciones Typografika 1642, 2019
• “Black Plan” contest book, 2017
• “Moscow student typography” booklet within the publishing program of the Typomania festival, 2016
• Project “Calendar Number One”, 2016
• Catalog “Edible-Inedible—Gastronomic Poster Exhibition”, 2015
• Tokyo TDC Annual Awards “Tokyo TDC Vol.26”, 2015
Exhibitions
• “Open Collab” project. Online exhibition, 2020
• “4th Block” posters exhibition, 2018
• “Weltformat” posters exhibition, Lucerne, 2017
• Exhibition “34 Youth exhibition of the section of graphics” Kuznetsky most, 20 , 2017
• The “TYPOMANIA” festival. Participant of the posters exhibition, 2017
• Poster exhibition “Black Plan”, 2017
• Posters exhibition “Nicosia, the City of Utopia”. Cyprus, Nicosia, 2017
• Curator of the exhibition “26 & 33” in the gallery “Promgrafika”, 2016
• “Lebedev 135” in the book fair “Non-fiction” in the Central House of Artists, 2016
• The exhibition "FUKUDA!", Art space “ARTBasement” as part of the Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design “Golden Bee 12”, 2016
• “#More life” dedicated to the Soviet sports poster in the art space “Winzavod”, 2016
• “Edible-Inedible”, 2015
• Interactive installation with letters for exhibition in the Museum of Moscow, 2015