Moscow Mule on staying small, remote working and what they’d change about the design industry

Co-founded by Marina Kondratenko and Anna Kabanina, Moscow Mule is a Russian design studio with a vibrant, typographically composed portfolio of work; ranging from intentionally stark packaging for a national supplement brand to an unrealised identity system for a pandemic-effected music festival. Keen to learn more about the studio and why they do what they do, we spoke to both Marina and Anna. EM: Why did you both decide to start a studio together? MK: Initially, we met during our studies at the Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in Moscow. I guess our friendship and mutual interest in each other’s work started there.