Hi everyone. I haven't written anything here for some time- I had to finish my studies (I am MSc now finally, yupi!) and tidy up my portfolio.

And now it's here- freshdesign.dk has finally got a fresh and clean look. It looks just as I wanted it to look like. Navigation is clear (but at the same time quite catchy). I've made it as a one page folio with smooth movements across the page elements. The galleries for each of the project are made with Lightbox.

And this is how it looks like (but you actually have to go and see for yourself how it works):



FreshDesign.dk logo:


Portfolio was updated. I have added some new works which I created in 2009 (and 2008):

WINDTURBINERACER
Website (2008) for DTU:


WindTurbineRacer logo:


Process of logo creating (using the university's logo):


Front page of a brochure:


Alternative WindTurbineRacer web layout (not used):


SOLIDARNOSC.DK
Graphical layout of a website about Polish solidarity movement, Solidarnosc.dk. It was supposed to look rough and work as a reminder of the communistic repressions and Polish history.


2nd concept (not used):


MSC PROJECT
Screenshots of mobile user interfaces that I created while working on my MSc thesis project, "Tag-based mobile music interaction". Project involved looking at a mobile interfaces from a perspective of usability and interaction design.




BØRN I KRIG- CHILDREN OF WAR
Project created for The Polish Embassy in Copenhagen. I designed, layouted and produced exhibition of 20 posters and 16-page brochure filled with pictures made by Polish children who survived wartime.




Fragment of poster's header (fragment of child's picture with inverted colors)

Labels: branding, design, graphic design, graphics, identity, logo, personal, print, web design

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Michal Sycz is a young Polish designer currently based in Cracow where he is studying and working. He is specializing in illustration, visual identity, interactive media and web design. Click here to see works of other talented Polish designers.

Illustrations by Michal Sycz:

Adidas advertisement


Collaborative work of Michal Sycz and Wojciech Magierski (m4gik)


Poster design based on shapes:





Interactive works and websites:

Website designed for Comarch


Beautiful 3D Flash game created for Sointeractive.pl

Labels: advertising, design, illustration, interactive, photography, Polish

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Promotion of young talents is important, especially if the talent is exceptionally good. Adam Koniuszewski is a Polish graphic designer and illustrator who is living and working in UK. He is available for freelancing, long-term contracts and full time hire so you might get a chance of getting him to work for you. I have selected 3 works which well present his style.

1. Poster design- "Come find yourself"


2. Poster design- "Love can damage your health" // it can but doesn't necessarily have to ;-)


3. Design of a flyer


There are more Polish artists and designers I have already mentioned in my blog- if you're interested in Polish design then check out my other posts:
Marek Mielnicki- tasty web design
Studio K- small design design studio from Poland
Khomatech- Karol Lasia
Some of my works
Tomasz Opasinski- poster genius
Evolved.pl - Kacper Spala's beautiful works
Hejz.com - Peter Jaworowski
Hellocolor.com- works of Pawel Nolbert
Maciek Blazniak's illustrations
Maciej Mizer- mosk.pl

Enjoy!

Labels: design, illustration, Polish, poster

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Sisterface (Enrique Pastor and Juan Carlos Mesa) is a small studio which is based in Madrid/Shanghai. They work with various media; their projects include design and identity work for brands, music industry etc.

What I like in their style are the colourful, quite simple shapes which create the whole image. It is especially visible in two of their works created for the exhibition Simone de Beauvoir, which are presented below:





Branding brochure of Viacom presented below is created with a similar technique:


And this is a bonus image presenting a T-shirt made by Sisterface studio. Quite controversial, for some it may look horrible. What do you think about it?

Labels: art, branding, collage, design, identity, Spanish, t-shirt

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Sicksystems is a design studio from Moscow, Russia. The agency is formed by 3 talented guys: Aske, Kio and Kola (I love their nicknames :)) They started as graffiti artists some years ago and actually this influence is quite visible in most of their works. Now they are working with various media and in many design areas. They are very careful about the geometrical forms and shapes as well as the graffiti-like typography.

In the portfolio there are plenty of good works: advertising commercials and posters, clothing (T-shirts, accessories), snowboards, logotypes. Plenty of good stuff- below I present just a few examples of their works. Enjoy!

Miller evolution advertising campaign


Rubik's cube promotional T-shirts


Commercial for 9linesmag.com blog


Sicksystems' promotional materials


Sculpture made for Nike advertising campaign (I love this one!)

Labels: advertisement, colour, design, graffiti, graphics, identity, logo, sculpture, streetart, t-shirt, typo, typography

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Julien Vallee is a young designer from Montreal, Canada (currently living and working in Berlin, Germany). His works contain some characteristic features- many of them are the result of combination of crafts, collage and computer graphics. Julien said: "I like to use manual art well endorsed by the various technological tools available in order to make the bridge between manual and virtual art." When looking at his works it's quite clear that he makes it good.



And here you have the "making of":


Raking leaves in the wind- poster advertising the art exhibition


This motion photo was created in the following way- the pieces were binded together with the strings. After shooting the picture it was edited- the strings magically disappeared.

Labels: art, collage, colour, craft, design, idea, motion graphics

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Emil Kozak was born in Denmark and started working on his design skills there. He moved a few years ago to Barcelona, Spain to continue a career of designer.

Emil started to work with graphics inspired by the skateboard art. He developed his style making the detailed, clean illustrations with just a few colours. In his portfolio you would find many neat illustrations printed on skateboards and surfboards, designs of T-shirts and logos. Below I would like to present some of Emil's works- skateboards and the designs of lampshades created for special exhibition.

Skateboards:




Lampshades:

Labels: colour, design, illustration, skateboard

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Teis Albers is a young designer from Netherlands. He has developed a fantastic technique of collage, joining the photos with different elements and layers of colours. Some of the works look really fresh and original- I would like to present just a few of them here (the names are not original- made up by me ;)):

1. funky cosmonauts


2. many strange things at one place


3. sexy'n'bold

Labels: colour, design, illustration, original

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Toko is a design studio established in Rotterdam in 2001, but now operating in Sydney (from 2006). Toko concentrates mostly on the print design- book & magazine design, identity, posters etc. If you visit the portfolio you would quickly realize that there is a very big emphasis put on the importance of typography.

Many of the prints are very original because of the experiments made on the typefaces. In this way the works fulfil the most significant role- they really stand out from the crowd.

Labels: design, font, poster, typo, typography

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Neil Duerden is a designer based in UK, living near Manchester. In his portfolio in the "advertising" folder you can find plenty of beautiful works related to advertising campaigns of well-companies: Nokia, Toyota, Coca Cola, Land Rover. The latter is presented below:



I think it's the first billboard presenting dishwash that I really like:



The illustrations by Neil Duerden are filled with amazing complex vector lines and elements. The combination of photography and the graphics is perfect- the works look natural and lively.



If I had more money I would definitely buy this print below. It is available in clickforart.com

Labels: advertisement, advertising, design, graphics, illustration

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Radim Malinic (aka Brand Nu) is the graphics designer based in UK.

I've found the works that you can see above extremely interesting so I decided to write a couple of lines about him. Radim has had his works published in books, magazines, posters, CDs' and DVDs' covers. His techniques combine layers of photography with colourful elements.

Labels: cd cover, colour, design, illustration, poster

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