Asphalt is a collaborative project, started by graphic designer Artem Strizhkov and editor-in-chief and photographer Alexey Lapin, and is also the first independent skateboard culture magazine in Russia. Asphalt’s layout, photos, stories, and aesthetic take no influences from the most popular skate magazines, but are inspired by the current crop of culture magazines. Asphalt represents a new kind of magazines about skateboarding and skateboarding itself as an art and a new look at the cities of the Post-Soviet space with their architecture and monuments.