Veille Design

Photographer Grant Slater captures Russia's Akadempark—a lost Soviet science town that's turned into Putin's new hub of innovation. One image in the photo series Silicon Forest shows Nick Volynkin, an employee of a mobile entertainment startup, grinning up at the camera, his face illuminated by the light of his laptop. Sitting awkwardly in a conference room full of gleaming monitors, Volynkin is the image of any under-caffeinated, overworked twenty-something you'd find in Silicon…