Poster Series for Trud No. 310 Album

A Soviet archive disguise for a 50-copy poster box?

A boxed poster series created by Kirill Gluschenko for the music band Труд and published by Gluschenkoizdat in an edition of 50. The 305 × 430 × 40 mm silkscreened box holds 50 A3 posters and 117 postcards, with an introduction by Vasiliy Kolesnik.

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Gluschenkoizdat is Gluschenko’s own imprint, and the concept is the apparatus: order numbers, print runs and editorial introductions borrowed from Soviet institutional publishing and applied to editions of a few dozen copies — he has described the result as a mirage of a publishing house.
The object is unusually specific and collectible: a 305 × 430 × 40 mm silkscreened box, weighing 1.7 kg, containing 50 A3 posters and 117 postcards (9 × 13 cm), published by Gluschenkoizdat in an edition of 50.
The production split matters visually and conceptually: the box is silkscreened while the posters inside are digitally printed, pairing a crafted container with reproducible contents.
The publication includes an introduction by Vasiliy Kolesnik titled “Personal Messages in the Language of Archives,” which neatly frames the work as archival language repurposed for contemporary graphic design.
Gluschenko’s broader practice spans Leipzig, Moscow, Pionerskiy, and Tallinn, often using manual offset printing in very small runs and documenting Soviet-era new towns and resorts, with exhibitions at GES-2, the 2nd Garage Triennial, MMOMA/V-A-C, and MdbK Leipzig.