Ira Lensberr was born in 1988 in Volgograd. Lives and works in Moscow and St. Petersburg. A graphic artist by first education. In 2014  graduated from the British Higher School of Design in the direction of “Font Design”. In 2023 graduated from the Master’s program of the HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL in the direction of “Contemporary Painting” in the workshop of Vladimir Dubosarsky. Used to teach at the HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL at the Bachelor’s degree program “Communication Design”. The works are under the artist’s pseudonym panicanddesign or Ira Lensberr. The main themes of the artist’s works: philosophical existence, aesthetics of grey everyday life, depression of modern man in the city, problems of social memory. Ira Lensberr’s illustrations have been published in Esquire, Elle and Marie Claire magazines.