Getting in touch with me is fairly easy. I have a mailbox: tema@tema.ru. Letters sent to this address will usually reach me. There’s no special assistant reading my email for me. I treat all emails sent to this address as personal and approach them with the appropriate respect and reverence.
I read everything I receive except for spam. If I find an email interesting, I’ll respond.
It makes sense to send me the following without hesitation:
comments concerning any of my projects;
materials for any of my projects (the metro one, for example);
portfolio links (if you’re not looking for a job at our studio, I’m not interested in your portfolio link);
invitations to visit or see something interesting in your city.
It’s pointless to email me with:
“I never got a response to my email from yesterday” (you won’t).
“I’d really like to hear your opinion about our company’s logo, my organization’s website, my brother’s book cover, my son’s poetry, my husband’s prose, my father-in-law’s play” (requests to review logos, websites, interfaces etc. are accepted only through the Business Lynch contact form—if you want them reviewed in Russian; as for poetry and prose, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass).
“Can you tell me if it’s ok to send you a link to my portfolio?” (stop asking and just send it).
“I have an idea and I’d like you to implement it and give me 50% of all future profits” (ideas are not protected by copyright law, so in order to avoid any misunderstandings, I advise you not to send them to me).
“We’re a community of Quakers from Bumfuck, Nowhere. Our programmer made us a website, but we don’t really like it. Could you design a webpage for us?” (no, I could not).
No less importantly, please do not:
request interviews (I’ve fulfilled my lifetime quota already);
invite me to conferences (boring);
ask me to sit on a jury (no time);
ask me to write an article for your publication.
If you’d like to print or otherwise publish one of my texts, illustrations or photos in any form, save us both some time and begin your email by stating the terms offered.
It makes absolutely no sense to ask me where to find information about something or other. I don’t give advice about using software, HTML basics, last-minute travel deals, literature, access to public networks or multiple-row self-propelled precision planters.
I have no idea how you can become a designer and whether or not you should continue doing design.
If you’d like to find something, you have www.ya.ru or www.google.com at your disposal—they look and function exactly the same on your computer as they do on mine.
I am not a relative of the Lebedev you are looking for.
