Stas Zhitsky

is a product and graphic designer, author, blogger, columnist and a contemporary artist well known in Russia.

Since mid 1980-s he has been distinguished as a stage artist (scenography and costumes), fashion-show art-director, book designer and illustrator. Four of his special edition books are included in a selective British Library Artistic Books Collection. Overall he participated in over 30 exhibitions (10 solo) in Europe and Russia throughout the 1990s.

In 1996 Stas and a fellow artist Sergey Kuzhavsky founded the "OPEN!Design” studio (from 2002 – "OPEN!Design&Concepts"), that became one of the leading design companies in Russia.

In 2005 Zhitsky and Kuzhavsky were noticed globally thanks to their Renault Formula-1 racing car that they did in Japanese ink wash technique.
In 2008 they launched a fine jewellery brand OPENJART (OPEN+Jewellery+ART) that renounced traditional jewellery designs while preserving the highest manufacturing standards.
The very first collection called Diamonds Inside was mocking the status show off function of diamond jewellery and got RedDot Design Award (Germany, 2009).
The next As-Usuals Collection featured the everyday objects, like pasta shapes and hardware, re-thought in gold and silver to become eye-catchy ironic and beautiful jewellery.