Designer Harry Nuriev Finds Inspiration in the Fanciful Downspouts of His Russian Hometown

I grew up in a rural town in southwest Russia, Stavropol. We didn’t have magazines. We didn’t really have any art museums. We didn’t have internet. I got my first computer in my twenties. But my sense of curiosity was always very strong, and I would create my own version of reality and intertwine it with "normal" reality.