Biography
Vladislav Ladygin (1940-2012). An outstanding Soviet-Russian graphic designer, member of the USSR Union of Designers, winner of the VDNH silver medal for design achievements, as well as a painter and draughtsman.
He graduated from MGZPI in the class of People's Artist of the USSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Alexander Laktionov. From the early 1960s to the mid-1990s, he was a leading artist at the All-Union Art and Decoration Combine Soyuzprodoformlenie. During his long creative career, he became the author of many trademarks and packaging designs. Many of the product samples he created are still in use today. Including He is a developer of corporate identity and design for products of hundreds of the largest enterprises of the Soviet-Russian agro-industrial complex and the food industry, including "Cracker", "Mospishchekombinat", "Colossus", "Russian product", "Mouth-Front", "Krasny Oktyabr", "Topaz", "Moslambumiz", "Minplodovoshkhoz" and others .
He is the author of the design of well-known in the USSR in the 1970s and 90s: candy wrappers "Bird's Milk", "Petrel", "Mask", "Northern Bear", "Grillage" and many others, as well as packaging design "Vermicelli soup with meat", "Baking soda", "Instant coffee", Dairy a mixture of "Baby", "Tea Vigor", labels of juices, fruit and berry mixtures, jams, food concentrates.
He left a legacy of several hundred paintings and drawings, whose subjects are mainly devoted to the landscapes of central Russia and its nature. The paintings are in private collections in Russia, the USA, Canada, India, Israel, as well as in the family collection.