Hi,
I’m Tagir Idrisov.
Who am I
I was born and raised in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan. In 2020, I moved to Moscow to study Transportation Design at Moscow Polytech. I’ve always had a deep passion for cars and exterior aesthetics. For my bachelor’s thesis, I developed Arba—a research project aimed at improving transport accessibility to natural monuments and boosting tourism in my home region. However, during my studies, I realized that my true calling wasn’t in engineering vehicles, but in visual communication and the presentation around them.
My career started at Cardi in 2023, an automotive design company, where I got to touch almost every aspect of graphic design in the transport sector. I worked on digital graphics, vehicle & aircraft liveries, 3D renderings for press releases, web design, photography, and pitch decks. After that, I completed a two-month internship at Art. Lebedev Studio, designing products and creating content for Magazinus.
In 2025, I joined the marketing team at Ping Network. There, I did a bit of everything to help the startup grow: refining the brand identity, designing landing pages, creating social media content, and launching special community campaigns and festival merch.
I had the chance to work on a very special offline art project called Ctrana Geroev. We took a bold approach by mixing street graffiti culture with civic patriotism. I developed the branding and designed pavilions for city events, along with posters and pitch decks for key stakeholders. It was a unique experience of bridging raw street art with official public spaces.
What I do
I love bright, striking, and loud design that confidently makes a statement. But my absolute favorite part of the process is when digital design becomes physical. There is something magical about crafting a concept on a screen and watching it come to life in the real world. Whenever I create, I always think about how the design will interact with its environment and neighboring objects, whether it lives on a webpage or stands in a city square.
I maintain a dedicated space for pure creativity called the Swagafolio. It’s an open archive for my visual experiments, raw concepts, and project leftovers that didn’t make the final cut but still have a lot of soul. I also run a Telegram channel under the same name, where I curate and share design references, and content that inspires my daily work. Duplicating it on X.
Besides,
My brain is fueled by a wildly diverse spectrum of pop culture. I watch everything from American cinema and Russian comedies to Turkish dramas. My watchlist spans from The Sopranos and The X-Files to Eşref Rüya and Zhuki. I’m also a massive petrolhead. I love classic Top Gear and The Grand Tour, old Jaaaaags, Porsches, and Toyota Land Cruiser 100. I absolutely love to play Forza Horizon series and haul cargo in American & Euro Truck Simulator.
Also, I love drinking coffee, testing new beans, experimenting with brewing methods, and dialing in the filter coffee. I enjoy the manual craft of it—tweaking variables and proportions just to see how entirely new flavor profiles unfold.
Bookshelf
Anthony Bourdain — Kitchen Confidential
Пол Рэнд — Искусство дизайнера
Наум Клейман — Эйзенштейн на бумаге
Designworkout — Мастер Александр Спицын Чувство Момента
Джордж Нельсон — Как Видеть
Designworkout — Human Centered Design Как Думают 200 Ваших Клиентов от 1 до 100 Лет
Зин Пираты Каспийского Моря
Designworkout — Rap Cal
Едины — Второй Тайм
Виктор Папанек — Дизайн для реального мира
Бруно Мунари — Дизайн как искусство
Дон Норман — Дизайн привычных вещей
Женя Арутюнов — Сложный дизайнер
Татьяна Мужицкая — Роман с самим собой
Designworkout — Четвертый сезон
Алис Миллер — Драма одаренного ребенка и поиск собственного Я
Едины — Естество футбольной культуры
Адриан Форти — Объекты желания
Йозеф Мюллер-Брокманн — Модульные системы в графическом дизайне
Робин Джейкобс, Эд Джей Браун — На Вершине Мира
Сеанс №85 Пример Интонации
Études Books №26 — Alessio Bolzoni I SPEAK A LANGUAGE THAT IS NOT MINE
Правила Жизни #008 Осень 2023
Popeye Issue 916 2023 August
Stylethere 001
Правила Жизни #007 Лето 2023
The Sopranos Family Cookbook
РБК 06–08
РБК 09–10
РБК Стиль №6 Сентябрь 2025
Ян Чихольд — Новая Типографика
Тимоти Мортон — Стать Экологичным
Алексей Рябов — Культура / дизайн Начало XXI века
Designworkout — Cars and Sneakers
Фрэнк Уитфорд — Баухаус
Джордж Лакофф, Марк Джонсон — Метафоры, которыми мы живем
Осип Мандельштам — Сохрани мою речь навсегда... Сборник стихотворений и прозы
Peak Store — ПУТЬ Выпуск 3
Designworkout — Кричевский Свобода Печати
Поглубже Выпуск №02
Григорий Ревзин — Как устроен город
Interior+Design Июнь/Июль 2025
Breechka Magazine 002
Seasons №76 Лето 2025
Peak Store — ПУТЬ Выпуск 4
2026, Tagir Idrisov