Nadezhda Pavlova
St. Petersburg, Russia
Calligrapher, graphic designer, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communicative Design, the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy in Saint Petersburg; member of the Union of Artists
She started to study calligraphy in one of the oldest schools of the city – School No. 203 (formerly Аnnenshule), where the traditions of the pre-revolutionary classical calligraphy were still alive. She studied in Artistic Lyceum No. 190. She graduated from the Mukhina Leningrad High School of Art and Industry (now the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy in Saint Petersburg) in 1978, Division of Industrial Graphic Art and Packaging. For several years, she worked in the Design Office and in the Scientific Research Sector of the Leningrad High School of Art and Industry. She completed her postgraduate studies and defended her candidate’s thesis, majoring in Graphic Design Theory in 1994. She is Assistant Professor of the Communicative Design Chair, the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy in Saint Petersburg. She teaches Font and Calligraphy courses. She is an author of scientific articles on graphic design and font art, member of the Russian Union of Artists. She took part in many artistic exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Calligraphy is frozen poetry.