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Column Four
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Motto
The design has to be fun, otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Poland
Jan
Diehl-Michalowski
Design
Branding
Bio
Jan is a graphic designer, founder of deal design • studio and academic lecturer (PhD in Arts). He deals with visual communication, branding and typography.
Graduate of the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, BA (2013). Studied at the Higher School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg (2012-2013) and at the Sorbonne (Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle) Master 1 – cultural mediation (2015). Master's degree at the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2017). PhD defended at the Faculty of Interior Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2018-2022).
He is an assistant professor at the Academy of Technology and Arts in Warsaw, lecturing in the field of design and interior architecture. He teaches at the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw on part-time and postgraduate studies. He has lectured, among others, in Georgia: Caucasus University (2024), Belgium: Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp (2023), Portugal: Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (2023), in China: Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics (2019-2022), in Germany: Hochschule Düsseldorf (2020), in Armenia: Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction (2019, 2023) and in France: École National Supérieure d’Art, Dijon (2018).
Clients
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The Gallery Studio Theatre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Gombrowicz Museum, The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
Awards
Polish Poster Biennale, The Project of the Year, Polish Graphic Design Awards, Fonts in use
More Speakers and Mentors
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.
Dohee
Lee
As someone who studied design at a university in Korea, I’ve observed that there are a vast number of design schools in the country. Considering Korea's population size, the number of design graduates is quite substantial. I find this to be an interesting fact when it comes to understanding the Korean design scene.
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.
Oksana
Shmygol
While the most known and celebrated inspirations from the Polish graphic design history is the 1950-80s Polish School of Posters, there is also a less known history of great logo design and typography, which we only started discovering recently. Nowadays Poland has amazing and internationally renowned designers in different fields - illustration, branding, typography and more. The community of professionals - individual designers and studios - is strong and friendly, we learn from each other and give each other advice, but also consciously build market standards together.