Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva

'Why is it considered to be so bad to want to be good?' article by Henk Pröpper in which he analyses more deeply what it means to be a good person without mockery and skepticism

In the eyes of the political right, the ‘deugdmens’ (the good person) is a humourless know-it-all, a tiring idealist, an unrealistic do-gooder

'Toothless Idealism' 

Millennials tend to act as if they are not part of the system they want to change

Review of the new novels by V. V. Ganeshananthan and Shehan Karunatilaka, who both use the distance of time to dramatise large chunks of Sri Lanka’s recent past

What does “good food” mean? – looking at thriving food systems and policies around food to create the opportunity to build a stronger, equitable, resilient future for all

Serviette is a new magazine about the themes, ideas, conversations and connectivity around the cycle of food

'I would have paid any price for my daughter to be helped'

 Swiss child psychiatric clinics are overcrowded with young people sometimes waiting months for a place, causing a lot of suffering at high costs

Book Review of Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine. What does it mean when men are worshiped, willingly or not, as gods?

Campaign for the 2024 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

Artworks used for posters, programs, trailers and social media

Campaign for the 2024 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation

Artworks used for posters, programs, trailers and social media

‘The Strange Story of Dagobert, the “DuckTales” Bandit’

In the nineties, a frustrated artist in Berlin went on a crime spree – building bombs, extorting high-end stores, and styling his persona after Scrooge McDuck. He soon became a German folk hero

ExtraPlaats 2 printed and published by Knustpress in collaboration with Stichting Plaatsmaken

Ten different artists, illustrators and designers were invited by Knust and Plaatsmaken to work within the boundaries of the Riso and screen printing to create an artwork

Ongoing commission to illustrate the biweekly podcast ‘Watt Matters’ published by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy

The podcast focuses on how to achieve renewable energy and thriving cities via policy, regulation, finance and technology

Topics illustrated include low-carbon heating, Russia’s influence in European energy, international energy policies, and the need for holistic approaches to the energy crisis

Ongoing commission to illustrate the biweekly podcast ‘Watt Matters’ published by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy

The podcast focuses on how to achieve renewable energy and thriving cities via policy, regulation, finance and technology

Topics illustrated above include low-carbon heating, Russia’s influence in European energy, international energy policies, and the need for holistic approaches to the energy crisis

Masha’s work for Watt Matter’s has been selected as a Medal Finalist in the 58th Annual Awards of the Society of Publication Designers

Ongoing commission to illustrate the biweekly podcast ‘Watt Matters’ published by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy

The podcast focuses on how to achieve renewable energy and thriving cities via policy, regulation, finance and technology

Topics illustrated include low-carbon heating, Russia’s influence in European energy, international energy policies, and the need for holistic approaches to the energy crisis

Ongoing commission to illustrate the biweekly podcast ‘Watt Matters’ published by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy

The podcast focuses on how to achieve renewable energy and thriving cities via policy, regulation, finance and technology

Topics illustrated include low-carbon heating, Russia’s influence in European energy, international energy policies, and the need for holistic approaches to the energy crisis

ExtraPlaats 2 printed and published by Knustpress in collaboration with Stichting Plaatsmaken

Ten different artists, illustrators and designers were invited by Knust and Plaatsmaken to work within the boundaries of the Riso and screen printing to create an artwork

Book review of Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino

Exhibition graphics for the new Wonderlab Gallery at the National Railway Museum in York

Set within a former workshop on the grounds of the National Railway Museum, the Wonderlab gallery has been developed to appeal to children aged 7 to 14. It features 18 interactive exhibits that encourages visitors to think like engineers while using skills and ideas from their everyday live

Exhibition graphics for the new Wonderlab Gallery at the National Railway Museum in York

Set within a former workshop on the grounds of the National Railway Museum, the Wonderlab gallery has been developed to appeal to children aged 7 to 14. It features 18 interactive exhibits that encourages visitors to think like engineers while using skills and ideas from their everyday live

Exhibition graphics for the new Wonderlab Gallery at the National Railway Museum in York

Set within a former workshop on the grounds of the National Railway Museum, the Wonderlab gallery has been developed to appeal to children aged 7 to 14. It features 18 interactive exhibits that encourages visitors to think like engineers while using skills and ideas from their everyday live

Exhibition graphics for the new Wonderlab Gallery at the National Railway Museum in York

Set within a former workshop on the grounds of the National Railway Museum, the Wonderlab gallery has been developed to appeal to children aged 7 to 14. It features 18 interactive exhibits that encourages visitors to think like engineers while using skills and ideas from their everyday live

Exhibition graphics for the new Wonderlab Gallery at the National Railway Museum in York

Animated artwork for a large scale interactive Conductive Wall which invites visitors to playfully imagine new futures by playing an interactive game to turn discarded junk into exciting rides in an imaginative amusement park. Artworks are projected onto the wall at all stages of the game - from rail junk through to the animated ‘Wonder State’ fairground that is activated by visitors touching the wall

Exhibition graphics for the new Wonderlab Gallery at the National Railway Museum in York

Set within a former workshop on the grounds of the National Railway Museum, the Wonderlab gallery has been developed to appeal to children aged 7 to 14. It features 18 interactive exhibits that encourages visitors to think like engineers while using skills and ideas from their everyday live

'Outside Out' reviewing outdoor theatres

Portrait of Martin MacInnes to accompany a review of his book In Ascension

Book cover for The Splendid Ticket published by McSweeney’s

The story centres around Angie Grandet who wins a $324,000,000 lottery jackpot. She chooses to share the winnings with her estranged husband. The book retraces their relationship from the point they first meet

Women of the Year’ special issue of The Financial Times Weekend magazine

This artwork accompanies an article that explores why it’s difficult for survivors to name the perpetrators of assault

Women of the Year’ special issue of The Financial Times Weekend magazine

This artwork accompanies an article that explores why it’s difficult for survivors to name the perpetrators of assault

Women of the Year’ special issue of The Financial Times Weekend magazine

This artwork accompanies an article that explores why it’s difficult for survivors to name the perpetrators of assault

On the theme of the human body, gender and sexuality

On the theme of the human body, gender and sexuality

On the theme of the human body, gender and sexuality

‘The Neighbourhood Approach’

Improving the level of electrification infrastructure of cities is often left to individual building owners or individual projects. In order to accelerate the shift and to create economies of scale, there is something to be gained by looking at renovation and development as a collective infrastructure project

Foresight Climate and Energy is a magazine about the global transition to a decarbonised energy economy

Cover artwork for the ‘Empowering Cities’ issue

Cities are not seen as key in the energy transition even though they are closest to the citizens they impact. But there’s a whole load of things that cities can do

Foresight Climate and Energy is a magazine about the global transition to a decarbonised energy economy

‘How we can connect across cities and borders’ Cover for the 70th anniversary edition of Kulturaustausch

Kulturaustausch is a quarterly magazine published by the German foreign office

'The Most Important Thing I Teach My Students Isn't on the Syllabus' by Frank Bruni

"Humility can be a bulwark against arrogance, absolutism, purity and zeal, and an antidote in our age of grievance"

'Know the Game' campaign about women's volleyball

‘Study of Two Figures – Dr. Seuss and Chrysanthemum Pearl’

Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and his wife Helen Palmer Geisel created an imaginary daughter named Chrysanthemum-Pearl

‘Study of Two Figures’ is a new sequence of poems by Monica Youn which looks at the links between Theodor Geisel and his alter ego, Dr Seuss, his wife, and their fictitious child – whose name references the symbol of imperial Japan

Second in series of images illustrating a review of ‘Study of Two Figures – Dr. Seus and Chrysanthemum Pearl’ a new sequence of poems by Monica Youn which looks at the links between Theodor Geisel and his alter ego, Dr Seuss, his wife, and their fictitious child (Chrysanthemum-Pearl), whose name references the symbol of imperial Japan

Colonial Banality, printed by the Print Room, is a personal project, questioning the imperialist, colonial hierarchies of Russian culture

Masha was born and raised in Russia and has been living in The Netherlands since 2009. She grew up in Bashkortostan, a region that joined Russia in the 16th century. Her father was Russian and her mother is Tatar-Bashkir. Bashkirs and Tatars are both Turkic Muslim ethnicities with their own distinct languages and cultures. In this series, Masha focused on the experience of ethnical minorities, which traditionaly hide in the shadow of the mainstream Russian narrative

Colonial Banality, printed by the Print Room, is a personal project, questioning the imperialist, colonial hierarchies of Russian culture

Masha was born and raised in Russia and has been living in The Netherlands since 2009. She grew up in Bashkortostan, a region that joined Russia in the 16th century. Her father was Russian and her mother is Tatar-Bashkir. Bashkirs and Tatars are both Turkic Muslim ethnicities with their own distinct languages and cultures. In this series, Masha focused on the experience of ethnical minorities, which traditionaly hide in the shadow of the mainstream Russian narrative

Colonial Banality, printed by the Print Room, is a personal project, questioning the imperialist, colonial hierarchies of Russian culture

Masha was born and raised in Russia and has been living in The Netherlands since 2009. She grew up in Bashkortostan, a region that joined Russia in the 16th century. Her father was Russian and her mother is Tatar-Bashkir. Bashkirs and Tatars are both Turkic Muslim ethnicities with their own distinct languages and cultures. In this series, Masha focused on the experience of ethnical minorities, which traditionaly hide in the shadow of the mainstream Russian narrative

Colonial Banality, printed by the Print Room, is a personal project, questioning the imperialist, colonial hierarchies of Russian culture

Masha was born and raised in Russia and has been living in The Netherlands since 2009. She grew up in Bashkortostan, a region that joined Russia in the 16th century. Her father was Russian and her mother is Tatar-Bashkir. Bashkirs and Tatars are both Turkic Muslim ethnicities with their own distinct languages and cultures. In this series, Masha focused on the experience of ethnical minorities, which traditionaly hide in the shadow of the mainstream Russian narrative

Self portrait

The arches of Voorburgstraat. One of a pair of spreads for the book 'This is Where You Can Find Me' by Rachel Sender

Invited to contribute to the book, Masha chose to highlight two areas in Bergpolder, a neighbourhood in Rotterdam-Noord where she lives. In doing so she documented unique areas currently undergoing dramatic transformations.

Masha chose to draw Voorburgstraat as it's an area due to be redeveloped. The structures are solid yet transitory and the murals will soon be painted over. Masha's intention was to capture these sites for what they are and what they represent, for the moment

Nest

The arches of Voorburgstraat. One of a pair of spreads for the book 'This is Where You Can Find Me' by Rachel Sender

This spread shows HKT-Blok on Talmastraat in Rotterdam. Built as social housing, this site is set to be converted into luxury apartments that will cost far more than what the existing tenants are able to afford. The development company, Vestia, has agreed to add a social housing component to the project, in response to protesting residents

Accompanying material for an exhibition about the acclaimed folk artist Jan de Prentenknipper (1798 -1870) at Zeeuws Museum in The Netherlands

The exhibition took place over three galleries at the museum in Middleburg and Masha’s work accompanies the work of the nineteenth-century artist, using mdf cutouts displayed on tables, walls, and hung from the ceiling of the galleries

One of two animations created for the exhibition

A commission by the curators Koehorts in ‘t Veld to create accompanying material for an exhibition about the acclaimed folk artist Jan de Prentenknipper (1798 -1870) at Zeeuws Museum in The Netherlands

Accompanying material for an exhibition about the acclaimed folk artist Jan de Prentenknipper (1798 -1870) at Zeeuws Museum in The Netherlands

The exhibition tells the story of Jan Huijszoon (the real name of Jan de Prentenknipper) who is considered an iconic artist of importance in The Netherlands. He depicted the world around him as he travelled from place to place in the province of Zeeland , sometimes with his family, in search of work

Zeeland is the westernmost and most sparsely populated area of the Netherlands

Accompanying material for an exhibition about the acclaimed folk artist Jan de Prentenknipper (1798 -1870) at Zeeuws Museum in The Netherlands

The exhibition takes place over three galleries at the museum in Middleburg and Masha’s work accompanies the work of the nineteenth-century artist, using mdf cutouts displayed on tables, walls, and hung from the ceiling of the galleries

One of two animations created for the exhibition

To supplement his meagre income as a travelling labourer, Jan de Prentenknipp sold his cutout prints often in exchange for a place to sleep.

His ‘cutouts’ take the form of chiselled images on paper, painted with watercolours and sometimes handwritten texts. His work, which has been preserved in the collections of national institutions and private collections, provides a unique view of the nineteenth-century Zeeland world

‘One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List’ by Kate Bowler

‘Pooling Resources’

Improving the green credentials of the existing housing stock is a difficult path to navigate. Now communities are being empowered to clean up their homes through collective action

Foresight Climate and Energy is a magazine about the global transition to a decarbonised energy economy

‘Digital Twins’

Digital simulations can show how different designs, technologies and equipment affect energy demand pathways

Foresight Climate and Energy is a magazine about the global transition to a decarbonised energy economy

One of a pair of artworks illustrating Rachel Connolly’s experience of psychoanalysis

One of a pair of artworks illustrating Rachel Connolly’s experience of psychoanalysis

‘When We Consent, We Shouldn’t Feel Terrible After, Right?’  –  an Opinion Guest Essay by Emma Camp for The New York Times

For a review of Matthew Ball’s ‘The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionise Everything’

‘Clinical Judgment’ by Aliya Pabanifor McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue

Combining art, fiction, audio, and a compendium of print objects in a custom box, McSweeney’s 64 is an ambitious exploration of audiovisual storytelling, coproduced with Radiotopia from PRX. Each piece in the issue establishes its own relationship between audio and print—the contributor’s unique experiment in weaving the mediums

‘Clinical Judgement’ is an audio play about an immigrant from India, living in Canada. He’s a privileged man (a doctor) with many biases and blind spots at the same time. The audio piece presents one side of his story. The 24” x 30” poster art created by Masha complicates and questions the story by presenting other perspectives. The poster provides a point of view, as if out for for dinner with the narrator of the play. What should we think of the narrator? Was he culpable? Is he telling the full story? The ultimate question he asks himself at the end of the piece is “Am I a bad man?” and the poster poses that question too

‘Free Your Mind’ to be creative you must be open to making connections and to do nothing

Taking the invention of the post-it note as example, the article challenges many of our beliefs about innovation, creativity, and even genius

Puppets

Wraparound cover of issue #25 of Wobby risograph magazine

Double page spread ‘Inside the Student Recruitment Machine’ about the global business of universities enticing foreign students

‘Letters of Recommendation’ section. Reading the court documents of the most absurd and funny lawsuits

Happy Holidays

Double page in Wobby risograph magazine, issue #24 the ‘Déjà Vu’ issue

An imagined sproftacchel / photo cut out board

One in a series of ‘staycation’ postcards created for PrintRoom

‘Woman and monkey’

One in a series of ‘staycation’ postcards created for PrintRoom

“I had a dream I had four kids’

‘Teens’

From the Graphic novel ‘Bubble Book’ a semi autobiographic story of Masha’s childhood growing up in Russia

‘Childhood’

From the Graphic novel ‘Bubble Book’ a semi autobiographic story of Masha’s childhood growing up in Russia