what:
visual identity

who:
Goethe-Institut

when:
2022

Visual identity of the series of events circulating around the Queer as German Folk exhibition presented at Goethe-Institut in Warsaw. Film screenings, debates and talks were bound together by the title unsere queere geschichte / nasza queerowa historia (our queer history).

what:
visual identity

who:
Goethe-Institut

when:
2021

Visual identity of the series of events circling around Joseph Beuys’ art and life. One of the elements of the identity is a new font, designed especially for this occasion. The letter ‘B’ has become the logo of the whole project.

what:
exhibition architecture
graphic design

who:
Adam Mickiewicz Institute

when:
2021

illustrators taking part in the exhibition:
Edgar Bąk, Katarzyna Bogucka, Zosia Dzierżawska, Katrin Ehrlich, Gosia Herba, Rita Kaczmarska, Kadi Kurema, Regina Lukk-Toompere, Paweł Mildner, Viive Noor, Priit Pärn, Anne Pikkov, Marja-Liisa Plats, Dawid Ryski, Urmas Viik, Katarzyna Walentynowicz

curator:
Magdalena Kłos-Podsiadło / Wytwórnia

project concept / coordinator:
Dorota Szczepanek / AMI

coordinator in Estonia:
Sławomira Borowska-Peterson / Polish Embassy in Tallinn

carpenters:
S4P / Manufaktura mebli

The exhibition of illustrations inspired by Stanisław Lem’s – the true visionary, philosopher and writer – Mortal Engines, published for the first time in Estonia. The works of a group of distinguished contemporary illustrators are shown in a surprising way. The constellation of wooden crystals holds a bunch of keys to visual mysteries. Fragments, bits and understatements are lurking in the aura of mathematical oddity…

The exhibition was shown at the Children’s Literature Center in Tallinn, and it will soon go on tour in Estonia and Scandinavia.

what:
exhibition architecture

who:
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

when:
2020

artists and their children taking part in the exhibition:
Olaf Brzeski with Konstanty, Iza Chlewińska with Miłosz, Kinga Nowak and Tytus, Zbigniew Rogalski with Tymon, Jaśmina Wójcik with Zoja and Lea, Paweł Althamer and Kosma, Monika Drożyńska with Tymon, Malwina Konopacka with Aniela, Teresa and Julia, Cecylia Malik with Urszula

curators:
Zofia Dubowska, Karolina Iwańczyk, Katarzyna Kołodziej-Podsiadło, Anna Zdzieborska

producer:
Anna Muszyńska

builders / carpenters:
Marcin Sokołowski + the team
Andrzej Bialik

The exhibition was designed for children and their parents/care-takers. It comprised a series of interactive installations prepared by the invited artists and their children. How can you spend time with your children – creatively, and what’s equally important – un-digitally? With a piece of string, a stick, or a crayon… The exhibition’s purpose was to inspire parents and children to play and create together, as a team.

what:
posters

who:
Wrocław Opera

when:
2019

We had a chance – and a great pleasure – to design posters for the two opera pieces shown at the Wrocław Opera House, Gounod’s Faust directed by Beata Redo Dobber and Verdi’s Traviata directed by Grażyna Szapołowska.

what:
visual identity /
exhibition architecture

who:
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola /
Gdynia Design Center / Gdynia City Museum

when:
2016-2017

curator:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka

The Roundabout Baltic exhibition is more like a narrative – it tells a story of connections and similarities in thinking about design among artists living and working around the Baltic Sea. The curator had chosen 70 objects, which form a surprisingly coherent collection.

We designed an easy to assemble display system, exhibition’s visual identity and the whole set of publications, including a book written by the curator. Everything in the Baltic steel-and-kelp shades…

The exhibition was presented in all Baltic countries and also on Iceland.

what:
visual identity /
exhibition architecture

who:
Adam Mickiewicz Institute /
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola

when:
2018

curator:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka

carpenters:
S4P Manufaktura Mebli / www.studio4projekty.pl

photography (catalogue):
Anna Orłowska / www.orlowskalipinski.com

What is the colour spectrum of Hungarian, Czech, Slovak and Polish designers? Is colour completely globalized, or can you find regional traits and preferences? The curator chose a few dozen objects, which form a subjective constellation – with colour as the main methodological force behind it.

Our task was to design the visual identity of the exhibition, printed matter and an easy to assemble, foldable, modular display system.

The exhibition was already shown during the Budapest Design Week 2018 and designblok 2018 in Prague.

what:
visual identity

who:
Ilona Trybuła /
Ciało Się Foundation

when:
2016

For quite a few years now Ilona Trybuła, the Warsaw-based dancer and choreographer, has been organising festivals, meetings and workshops focusing on improvisation in contemporary dance.

(sic!) was a series of improvised music and dance events at the Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art.

what:
layout design, graphics, typography

who:
Joanna Szymajda /
Institute of Music and Dance /
Adam Mickiewicz Institute

when:
2017

Polish Dance Avant-garde Artists. Stories and Reconstructions comprises a collection of essays about Polish and Polish-born women artists who greatly influenced the development of modernist dance currents in Poland and abroad: Tacjanna Wysocka, Irena Prusicka, Janina Mieczyńska, Bronisława Niżyńska, Marie Rambert, Pola Nirenska and Yanka Rudzka. The texts were written by the researchers representing different generations and nationalities – invited by Joanna Szymajda to take part in this project.

what:
photography exhibition graphics

who:
Adam Mickiewicz Institute /
Polish Embassy in Copenhagen

when:
2016

curator:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka

A selection of photographs by Kacper Kowalski, Marcin Ryczek, as well as the professors and students of the Łódź Film School was shown at the Hillerød Art Centre.

what:
visual identity

who:
C/U Foundation

when:
2018

Edyta Kozak, the artistic director of the Ciało/Umysł International Contemporary Dance Festival in Warsaw, has been presenting the dance avant-garde from across the globe to the Polish audience for over a decade now.

The identity of C/U Festival is a part of the consistent graphic design system prepared for the C/U Foundation a few years ago.

what:
exhibition architecture

who:
Adam Mickiewicz Institute

when:
2017-2024

curator:
Ewa Solarz

carpenters:
S4P Manufaktura Mebli / www.studio4projekty.pl
+ Marcin Sokołowski / fuckramps

The exhibition shows a hundred objects – e.g. fonts, toys, chairs, planes – which were designed and produced in Poland in the last hundred years. Twenty five contemporary illustrators created their own interpretations of the objects – and thus a collection of a hundred original artworks was created. At the exhibition you can see this collection, accompanied by some original objects and archival photographs.

We designed the architecture of the exhibition – a system of modular, multifunctional frames/display boxes and stands. They all travel flat-packed, and can be easily assembled and arranged in many different contexts.

The exhibition was shown in Gdynia, Budapest, Berlin, Poznań, Bucharest, Vienna, Kielce, Toronto, Łódź, Darmstadt.

what:
exhibition architecture

who:
Łódź Design Festival

when:
2018

curators:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
Paweł Grobelny

carpenters:
S4P Manufaktura Mebli / www.studio4projekty.pl

A collection of forty well-designed Polish products was assembled by the curators and shown at the Łódź Design Festival.

We designed the textile, wood and steel display system, running around on red legs.

what:
visual identity

who:
Grzegorz Artman
and Fundacja Budowy Nowego Teatru Kielce

when:
2012-2014

This had been a multidisciplinary project involving architecture, interior and graphic design. The first element was the logo and the last – the adaptation of the old synagogue in Kielce for the purposes of the theatre. In between there was the custom font (Hex), posters, furniture design, mobile walls and many other elements…

what:
a set of purposeless B1 posters

when:
2014

what:
adaptation of the old synagogue’s interior
for the purposes of a theatre

who:
Grzegorz Artman
and Fundacja Budowy Nowego Teatru Kielce

when:
2012-2014

A multidisciplinary project involving architecture, interior and graphic design. The old synagogue in Kielce has a chance of coming back to life through theatrical and educational projects.

First of all we designed multifunctional large-scale furniture, which can transform the otherwise empty interiors into a lecture hall, a cinema, workshop space or a regular theatre, according to actual needs. The main theatrical hall can also be transformed to hold a dance piece or an exhibition, thanks to the system of modular mobile walls. Those design solutions will allow the theatre to function in an open formula.

what:
layout design, graphics, typography

who:
Marcin Jacobson /
Stanisław Danielewicz /
Bernardinum Publishing House

when:
2017

Rockowisko Trójmiasta (Tricity Rocks) is a huge book – written as a dialogue, or rather a discussion between two insiders of the Polish rock scene of the 70’ – Stanisław Danielewicz and Marcin Jacobson. Overwhelmingly grey communist Poland is a backdrop for the energetic and colourful underground culture. Bands, clubs, intrigues shimmer and unfold in this exciting narrative, while the previously unpublished black-and-white photographs illustrate it.

what:
visual identity /
exhibition architecture

who:
Polish Cultural Institute
School of Form
Adam Mickiewicz Institute

when:
2017

curators:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
Wojciech Dziedzic

A group of talented young fashion designers, graduates of the Poznań-based School of Form, showed their work at the Somerset House during the International Fashion Showcase 2017 – a part of the London Fashion Week.

We designed the exhibition’s visual identity, soft pink manikins and a flat-packed, easy to transport and assemble display system.

The Polish exhibition won The International Fashion Showcase Curation Award.

what:
visual identity /
exhibition architecture

who:
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
(producer: Michał Nowakowski / ArtConnection)

when:
2017

curator:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka

A selection of Polish design pieces and brands was shown at the International Handmade Fair in Seoul.

We designed the visual identity of the Polish presence at the Fair, as well as the easy-to-assemble, flat-packed display system. It travelled to Korea in just one box, and yet it covered almost 100 sq.m. when it was ready…

what:
exhibition architecture

who:
Zachęta – National Art Gallery / Warsaw

curators:
Ewa Solarz, Magdalena Kłos-Podsiadło

coordination, production in Zachęta:
Anna Muszyńska-Bełc, Katarzyna Kołodziej

carpenters:
fuckramps, Andrzej Bialik

electronics:
Maciej Wojnicki – LOFI Robot

music:
Adam Walicki

when:
2016-2019

The best Polish illustrators, the most beautiful books for children, the longest pillow in Eastern Europe, black walls you can draw on, an orchestra you can conduct, beetles, mirrors and Piglet’s snouts…

The exhibition was shown in Warsaw, Stalowa Wola, Cieszyn, Katowice and Orońsko.

what:
puzzle / city rug

who:
Gdynia City Museum

when:
2016

curator:
Martyna Groth

A journey into the house was a series of holiday workshops for children. A rich architectural heritage of modernist Gdynia was the focal point of the series.

We designed a special toy – a soft puzzle, or a rug. Everyone could create their own pattern using black, red, white or grey identical elements – small tiles called “gorseciki”. They were often used on the floors of the pre-war buildings, becoming a kind of a signature element.

what:
architecture of the festival space

who:
Gdynia Design Days

when:
2019

„What is more important: individual interest or common good? Offline or online? I or we?” – these were the questions of the festival. For all the festival’s exhibitions and events we designed architecture based on black dots – particles, which are attracting or repelling each other…

what:
interior remodelling

who:
Goethe-Institut in Warsaw

when:
2015

The main objective of the project was creation of a multi-purpose space, which – thanks to the custom-designed modular furniture – can be easily adapted to accomodate various activities and events. It can be used as a library, a reading room, a lecture and workshop hall, and even as a small cinema or a concert hall.

what:
exhibition architecture

who:
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola

when:
2017

curator:
Ewa Solarz

Exhibition – or rather a set of toys – about the city and it’s inhabitants. About coexistence. Because we must remember that living in the same city, we all inhabit the same space – adults and children, elderly people, disabled people, sparrows, dogs, cats… We all bear the same right to shape it.

what:
visual identity /
youtube trailers

who:
Institute of Music and Dance 

when:
2015

Studio dance scene (Scena tańca studio) is a series of contemporary dance presentations at Teatr Studio in Warsaw.

We were responsible for the whole set of the programme’s promotional materials.

what:
visual identity

who:
C/U Foundation

when:
2017

Edyta Kozak, the artistic director of the Ciało/Umysł International Contemporary Dance Festival in Warsaw, has been presenting the dance avant-garde from across the globe to the Polish audience for over a decade now.

The identity of C/U Festival is a part of the consistent graphic design system prepared for the C/U Foundation a few years ago.

what:
flyer design

who:
C/U Foundation

when:
2017

It is a small thing – a flyer for the 10th anniversary of C/U Foundation. And yet, the main visual motif we find amusing – a XIXth century jaguar killing a bloodhound, scaring two ladies resting in the shade of tropical leaves…

what:
a small wooden building

who:
private founder

where:
Tarnów upon Vistula

when:
2009–2012

The chapel in Tarnów – the small village upon the river Vistula – was founded by a private investor, who wanted to create a community meeting point and a place for contemplation. The chapel is standing on a sandy cliff overlooking the river. 

It was shortlisted to the Mies van der Rohe Award 2011 and some other awards…

what:
outdoor exhibition graphics /
renovation of old photographs

who:
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola

when:
2016

A family in an orchard, three bowlers, monks on a picnic… Life of the world long gone. The photographs from several private archives of Rozwadów inhabitants were carefully repaired and shown at the outdoor exhibition in the town’s main square.

what:
quite big building blocks

who:
Gdynia Design Days

when:
2014

What can you construct using plywood cubes and foam connectors? A tunnel, a tower and a couch… Maybe also an armchair, a bush and an ambush… Who knows what else! You can experiment with the system, you can find unexpected solutions or impossibilities.

All the elements are quite big. Because of that every decision of younger and older builders has an impact on the surroundings. A question of what is "private" and what is "public" becomes important.

So where are the boundries of artistic freedom? Would you let others tinker with the structure you built on the common ground?

what:
façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw temporary building / competition design (honourable mention)

when:
2016

jury:
Waldemar Baraniewski, Szymon Holcman, Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Joanna Mytkowska, Agnieszka Tarasiuk

Our idea was simple: to attach a grid of small, flat copper circles to otherwise bland walls of the temporary Museum’s building. Copper – as a signature material of Warsaw churches’ and palaces’ roofs. As an echo of times long gone, and yet still present through architecture rebuilt after the 2nd World War. Also, we decided to leave all the decorating of the façade to rainwater, wind and chemical reactions…

How long will it take for copper to turn brown? Or will it still be green when the temporary building is dismantled and the Museum moves to it’s new venue? Let’s hope so!

what:
visual identity

when:
2010–2018

The Institute of Music and Dance (IMiT) was founded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in 2010. It works on the development of music and dance culture in Poland.

We designed not only the visual identity of the Institute, but also the system of visual communication for its various programmes, events, publications etc.

what:
visual identity /
exhibition architecture

who:
Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw

when:
2011-2012

1 Euro Design – or – good design not only for the well-off. Such a thought was the curators' principle this time. They showed products that were relatively cheap, yet very well designed. A bag, a pair of shoes, but also a car…

We produced 5 000 identical cardboard modules to construct the exhibition. Walls, displays and shelves were built without the use of any tools, screws or glue… Everything was dismantled and constructed once again in the Technology Park in Gdynia.

what:
visual identity /
exhibition architecture

who:
Polish Institute in Berlin

when:
2013

Poland was a special guest at the DMY Festival in Berlin in 2013. The best Polish designers showed their fresh works under the Polish Design Focus flag. Paweł Grobelny, Paweł Jasiewicz, Malafor, Bartosz Mucha, Tomasz Rygalik, Tabanda, Trzy Myszy, Oskar Zięta and many others took part in the exhibition.

Each of the 16 design studios had their own "island" made of plywood triangles. The designers could customize the islands, within the boundaries of the system.

what:
a dozen of ink drawings
with descriptions

who:
BWA Tarnów

when:
2013

curators of the exhibition:
Katarzyna Białousz, Anna Theiss

We were asked to prepare a piece for the exhibition called Błądzenie jest rzeczą (Error is a thing). So we decided to reveal our absolute disillusionment with Nature and its flawed creations. Nature's amoral evolutionary inertia is scary for us… And a dozen of seemingly well-adapted animals proves our point. Or at least shows our point of view.

Wrong design principles, millions of years of evolutionary wandering in the dark – driven by fear, pain, lust… Unaccpetable. Unbearable.

what:
modular stage design for the contemporary dance piece / costumes for the dancers and musicians / video

who:
Teatr Bretoncaffe, Warsaw

when:
2009

Lizard's Manifesto is a surreal story about being lost, about the temporary triumph of emancipation and finally about the sad end of the Lizard Queen.

The Lizard's space is built from hundreds of identical cardboard elements. They form a kind of rock formation, or skin – chaotic and orderly at the same time. The whole thing is constructed without using any tools, glue or additional structure.

what:
exhibition design /
graphic design

who:
ZAiKS Society of Authors

when:
2014

Stanisław Ossorya-Brochocki was one of the founders of the Polish Society of Authors (ZAiKS) in 1918. The exhibition showed many interesting documents from that time. We came up with the simple idea of revealing both sides of the letters, tickets etc. Because B-sides are sometimes even more interesting…

what:
design and production of the furniture set

when:
2011

This charming furniture set consists of a cow-milking stool, a chair and a table. Each piece is made of thin steel sheet, cut and bent in a special way. Steel is covered in yellow sandpaper, so it gets even nicer… 3Devils are dangerous, dubious, devilish.

3Devils were designed in collaboration with AZE Design.

what:
font design

when:
2012–2014

Hex is a display font designed as a part of the visual identity of Nowy Teatr Kielce.

Hex is drawn on the hexagonal grid. It is painfully consistent, rigid and not always nice. It comes in three styles: Regular, Bold and Black.

Hex should be applied moderately.

what:
visual identity

who:
Institute of Music and Dance
Culture Centre in Lublin

when:
2014

Graphics designed for the Polish Dance Platform is a part of the system of visual communication prepared for the Institute of Music and Dance. Most of the Institute's projects follow the guidelines of the system.

what:
multipurpose cardboard modules

when:
2009

Icosahedron, a fruit bowl or a lamp… Lithium might become almost anything! The identical modules are made of thin corrugated cardboard covered with protective foil.

what:
exhibition graphics

who:
Art Museum in Łódź

when:
2009

The exhibition arrived in Łódź after being shown in KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Klaus Biesenbach, who curated “Political / Minimal”, gathered quite a few contemporary masterpieces – minimal in form, yet politically bold. Among the artists – only the stars…

what:
a series of bags made of foam 

when:
2008 

Fi is made of one piece of polyethylene foam cut in such a way, that you can transform it into a three-dimensional object. With no stitches or buttons. Geometry as a slave of fashion… 

Fi comes in grey, black, sometimes yellow.

what:
chair sweater

who:
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Bęc Zmiana Foundation

when:
2005

S is a rectangle made of thin, soft foam. You can fold it, zip it and put it on an old, ugly chair. Or the one that’s too beautiful… What you get is a soft, warm and comfortable seat shaped like a strange mushroom.

S was designed as an element of the summer cinema scenography at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. Afterwards it had begun it’s triumphant journey through gardens and backyards of Europe…

what:
graphics and typography /
renovation of archival photographs

who:
Rój Publishing House

when:
2011

Perpetual Remembrance (Pamięć nieustająca) is a multi-faceted story of the last hundred years of Polish history. The focal point of all depicted events is a unique place – Marshall Piłsudski Square in Warsaw.

572 pages, 450 previously unpublished photographs.

what:
visual identity

who:
Goethe-Institut in Warsaw
Polish Institute in Berlin
Bęc Zmiana Foundation

when:
2010

The Promised City was a multidisciplinary artistic project spanning between Berlin, Warsaw and Mumbai. Artists from Germany, Poland and India sought answers to the question about the strangely magnetic force of the cities. The tools were diverse: from photography, through literature to theatre and architecture.

what:
graphics and typography of the book /
preparation of archival photographs

who:
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola

when:
2013

Elżbieta Skromak had worked on the subject of pre-war Polish-Jewish relationships for a few years. The publication of the book and the exhibition – both called The Jew, My Neighbour – were the conclusion of the project.

what:
visual identity

who:
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
Institute of Music and Dance

when:
since 2015

Oskar Kolberg Award for special achievements in the realm of folk culture is given by the Minister of Culture each year. The recipients of the award come from diverse fields and backgrounds – they are folk artists, poets, promoters, researchers…

The graphics of the award is being designed by us each year in a consistent manner since 2015.

what:
installation

who:
Łódź Design Festival

when:
2008

Completely un-electronic screen made of 24 booklets. It is attached to the wall and is broadcasting totally un-breaking news. It works unplugged and disconnected. And yet, it receives a few channels, which you can change and mix by flipping pages in the booklets.

what:
visual identity

who:
Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola /
Adam Mickiewicz Institute /
Polish Embassies and Institutes all over the world

when:
2009–2013

curators:
Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka
and Paweł Grobelny

Unpolished exhibition had been travelling around the world for over four years, showing the best works of young Polish designers. The exhibition visited Paris, Seoul, Düsseldorf, Budapest, Helsinki… and many other cities.

The visual identity of Unpolished was awarded in the Muzeum Widzialne competition in 2013.

what:
visual identity /
architecture of the mobile festival space

when:
2014, 2015

The complete set of designs for the first Polish whisky festival. We began with the logo and finished with the foldable, modular stands for the exhibitors.