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Ada
Zielinska
Design
Typography
Bio
Ada Zielińska is a graphic designer and illustrator who blends modernity with 70s and 80s nostalgia.
A graduate of Interior Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Graphic Design in Gdańsk, she now teaches at the latter.
She has exhibited in Poland, Germany, Spain, the USA, and Japan, and collaborated with brands like Adobe, Netflix, Levi's, Spotify, Domestika, and institutions like the National Museum in Gdańsk.
Clients
Adobe, Netflix, Spotify, Levi's, The North Face, Domestika, Nature, New Scientist, Fast Company magazine
Awards
30/30 Awards, Decibels of Design, KTR Awards, Polish Graphic Design Awards
More Speakers and Mentors
Yui
Takada
The typsetting is unique. The ability to use hiragana, katakana, kanji, and alphanumeric characters in both vertical and horizontal writing is, we feel, unique in Japanese design culture.
Daeki
Shim
It's not unique to Korea; a one-sided relationship has no future, so please work with people who respect and acknowledge each other's value.
Jan
Diehl-Michalowski
In Poland, design is still in the development phase and there is currently no one specific dominant style characteristic only of our country. Until recently, we were trying to design correctly, and now we are looking at how to design incorrectly.
Michal
Piernikowski
Polish design consistently marks its presence on global markets, combining diferent perspectives that reflects the cultural context of Poland, while perfectly adapting to the expectations of customers from all over the world. Today polish design not only draws on its history and regional motifs, creatively reinterpreting patterns from the past, but also develops by embracing new values like: innovation, responsibility, resourcefulness, locality, and nostalgia.