Protey Temen was born in 1984 in Moscow. Passing from one art school to another, he entered the Art and Production Department of the Humanitarian Institute of Television and Radio for a year and then moved to the International Institute of Advertisement with a specialization of “art director”. Over the last 8 years Protey worked somewhere between design and art. He works on brand styles for different companies developed into methodology for creating his own projects.
Protey’s approach to his work is to a large extent conditioned by his own design laws; ‘For me, the sign is a greater element than just an iconographic image of some idea. It is the core of the system. On the one hand, it is a minimum structural member, and on the other hand, it is the compressed structure. Poster or any other graphic work is interesting for me only as a means of description of the environment, where this sign exists.’
