Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radicalactivist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. He was an active force in the organization of the first museums ofmodern art that arose in Russia in the first years after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Attending art school in 1914 in Kazan wasto be a defining influence: that year Russian Futurists performed in the town, and Rodchenko saw their leading figures in action.It transformed his vision and he was still working with Futurist artists and their ideas twenty-five years later. And it was at artschool where Rodchenko first met the artist Varvara Stepanova, with whom he collaborated extensively, and who would becomehis life-long partner. Central in the re-examination of art and its place in society after the Revolution, and in the search for a newculture without the class implications of the past, Rodchenko's radical approach proposed a new understanding of a constructed,rather than a tastefully composed, culture. This concise, comprehensive and informative work focuses largely on Rodchenko'sgraphic work in the form of book jackets, posters and advertising.The Design series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009,judges said: "A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good useof typography and the covers are superb."