Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
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Jan Bajtlik is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, drawing and design.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2011 he was a visiting student at ESAG Penninghen in Paris. Since 2016 he has been working for Hermès, creating designs for silk scarves, bags, ready to wear, fashion accessories, ceramics, fabrics, enamel jewellery, watches and scenography.
Jan also collaborated with Swatch and Mazda. In 2023, he made a drawing performance in Dover Street Market in Tokyo. His drawings appeared, among others, in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Courrier International, Google, Vogue. His works are in private collections in Poland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, England, and the United States.
Hermes, Mazda, Swatch, Google, Vogue

History of Korean design and Hangul(Korean Letter), conservatism of Korean culture.

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.

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.

We're getting there.