Mohair Flyer

A few years ago my good friend and comic artist Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz and I teamed up with production company Naive Films to produce an animated film based on our comics about the strange town of Mikropolis. The title of the film is Mohair Dreams.

This was a flyer that I designed for a Pitching and co-pro event in Lyon, France. All illustraions by Gawronkiewicz.

You can watch a short development trailer of our film right here.

Good Food

A nice little FB cover photo for the fanpage of the book Piramida w kuchni na wynos. The cookbook will be launched this week and it's already a top seller on Empik.pl

Check out the fanpage here.

Urban Nature

Logo and Facebook event cover image I designed for Muzeum Woli/Laboratorium Miasta. These images will be used to promote a series of lectures/workshops about Warsaw's urban nature, to be conducted by Joanna Sanecka. To sign up, click here.

Make a Map

Each issue of Witaj w podrozy, a travel magazine published by Reader's Digest, features one illustrator making a map of a chosen city. Check out my map of Lublin for the spring issue. More information in Witaj w podróży.

Talking Trees

If you want to save trees from being cut down, give them a voice. That’s what I thought together with writer Joanna Sanecka when we came up with the idea to make speach balloons to put on trees. More than 20 trees and bushes from in our local park in Warsaw have been selected to be cut down by authorities without previous public counselling, not to mention counselling with a dendrologist. We put up the balloons with the help of neighbours during a manifestation held in the park. Let's hope the trees will be heard.

Media coverage here and here.

Introducing The Bacons

As a designer I sometimes have to do things that are a bit offbeat. Here I was asked to make an illustration for a calendar advertising Swedish catering companies. I like clients with a witty sense of humor.

Dark Tower

I've designed a series of magazine ads for ORCO – a French real estate development company. They are currently building a luxurious skyscraper called Złota 44 in the center of Warsaw. It was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind.

Psycho Poetry

Poems about my psychiatrist (Wiersze o moim psychiatrze) is the title of a book written by Andrzej Kotański that I have had the pleasure of designing and illustrating. It is published by Czuły Barbarzyńca and will have its premiere this Tuesday on the 15th of November (20.00) in their lovely bookshop located at Dobra Street 31 in Warsaw. I have to admit I'm not a great poetry reader, but this is one of the most funny and touching books I've read in recent time.

Mohair Rebrushed

This is the reissue of a comic book called Mikropolis – Mohair dreams. It was first published in 2002 by Mandragora. The upgraded and extended reissue was published in 2009 by Egmont. I designed both versions. In the latter edition (presented here) I wanted to achieve a vintage feel. I used a lot of grainy paper backgrounds and hand made typography. I put a lot of heart into the design as I'm also the author of the stories in the book. My good friend Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz made all the beautiful illustrations. More info about the comic here.

Hard cover

End-papers

Title page

Legal note / First page

Comic spread

Bonus material

Dr. Mabuse Is Back!

I nearly fell of my chair when I saw my hand painted vinyl toy on display in this weeks issue of Przekrój magazine. It's nice this artform is gaining some interest in mainstream media.

My custom toy 1000 Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse is on sale at Vinylcanvas.

Fashion is danger

This is something I made just before going on my well deserved summer vacation – a fashion catalogue for the H@C brand of Coccodrillo. I won't show more than this cover as the inside is a repetition of the same graphic elements and loads of product shots.

Evil toy

I haven't had the chance to paint with... uhm... reel paints for a while now. But recently I got invited by Wrocław based artist Abe-S to hand-paint a Kidrobot Munny for his online gallery Vinylcanvas.com. First I didn't know what to come up with and then I had this vision, just before falling asleep one evening, of a red creature covered with eyes. I named it after a an old Fritz Lang movie called The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. My son thought it a bit scary and told me "it can't eat with its eyes". Good point.

You can have a peek at the gallery here.