Stepanova even rendered the team's emblem into a graphic design. The sports arena offered a context for Stepanova to realize an idealized bodily neutralization, and her uniforms were often unisex with pants and a belted tunic that obscured the human form. Textile production Stepanova carried out her ideal of engaging with industrial production in the following year when she, with Lyubov Popova, became designer of textiles at the Tsindel (the First State Textile Factory) near Moscow, and in 1924 became professor of textile design at the Vkhutemas (Higher Technical Artistic Studios). As a constructivist, Stepanova not only transposed bold graphic designs onto her fabrics, but also focused heavily on their production. Stepanova only worked a little over a year at The First Textile Printing Factory, but she designed more than 150 fabric designs in 1924. Although she was inspired to develop new types of fabric, the current technology restricted her to printed patterns on monotone surfaces. By her own artistic choice, she also limited her color palette to one or two dyes. Although she only used triangles, circles, squares, and lines, Stepanova superimposed these geometric forms onto one another to create a dynamic, multi-dimensional design. Graphic design Stepanova practiced typography, book design and contributed to the magazine LEF throughout the early 1920s. As part of a government campaign to promote universal literacy, Stepanova organized a "Book Evening" in 1924. This was a performance that featured characters from pre- and post-revolutionary literature battling each other. Tribute On October 22, 2018, Stepanova was honoured with a Google Doodle posthumously on her 124th birthday. See also Anti-art (Note: it is disputed whether or not artwork associated with Varvara Stepanova is indeed "anti-art".) Soviet fashion design References and sources Notes References Sources The Russian Experiment in Art, Camilla Gray, Thames and Hudson,1976 Avant-garde Russe, Andrei Nakov, Art Data, 1986 Russian Constructivism, Christina Lodder, Yale University Press, 1985 Varvara Stepanova, The Complete Works, Alexander Lavrentiev, MIT Press, 1988 External links Art engineers: Rodchenko and Stepanova (in Russian) – biographical article 1894 births 1958 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Russian women artists Russian women photographers Soviet artists Russian avant-garde Russian scenic designers Russian women painters Modernist theatre Academic staff of Vkhutemas Soviet women artists Artists from Kaunas 20th-century women photographers 20th-century Russian women