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What Remained of Farrukh. About the Tajik Designer Who Left Behind More Than Just His Work

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  • A year after Tajik designer Farrukh Safarzade’s death, colleagues, students and friends recall his support, mentorship and ability to bring people together.
  • The article focuses on how Farrukh’s character and ideas remain present in the people who knew him, rather than listing his professional achievements.
  • His mother preserves memories of her only child through conversations with people who knew him in different parts of his life.

A year after Farrukh Safarzade’s death, the Tajik designer remains present in the memories of the people he supported, taught and inspired. His mother keeps discovering new parts of her only child through the stories of colleagues, students and friends.

Come by more often, at least that way I’ll get up to cook. Otherwise, since Farrukh died, I don’t even want to cook for myself.

· Farrukh Safarzade’s motherShe explains how grief has affected her daily life while preparing her son’s favorite meal.

At her home, she cooks the chicken Farrukh loved, with a golden crust, sweet-and-sour sauce and roasted vegetables. She says she rarely wants to cook for herself since his death, but conversations about him change her expression. Recalling a phrase, a joke or a small detail seems to return another piece of his life.

The article deliberately turns away from a list of awards, projects and professional accomplishments. Instead, it gathers what Farrukh left in other people: the friend, colleague and mentor his mother could not fully see because, even within a close family, no one witnesses every part of another person’s life.

I was shaking with nerves the entire session. And he calmly explained why exactly that color palette was chosen and what was behind that decision. There was no offense or attempt to prove to me that I was wrong.

· Amina RakhmanovaShe recalls Farrukh’s response after she criticized a Humo Bank campaign.

Amina Rakhmanova first encountered Farrukh in 2021, while studying in an “SMM from Scratch” course. She had criticized a Humo Bank campaign for a mismatch between its visual and the wider feed. At the next class, she learned that Farrukh, the designer who created the work, would attend.

Are you nervous?

· Farrukh SafarzadeHe asked Amina this before her interview with the Humo team.

Amina remembers being nervous, but Farrukh calmly explained the reasoning behind the color palette without trying to prove her wrong. He later singled out her work as one of the course’s best entries. When she applied to join the Humo team, he supported her candidacy and gave positive feedback. He was also the first person she met at the interview, where he reassured her about her nerves.

That’s normal. Everything will go well.

· Farrukh SafarzadeHe reassured Amina during the interview process.
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