Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
Column Four

Light Installations
Ksawery Kirklewski is creative coding and new media artist.
Author of interactive light installations, music videos, generative animations, phygital sculptures, and realizations in public space. In his activities, he uses new technologies, programming and advertising media, focusing mostly on the digital and generative art field.
His most recent projects include: interactive light installations FLUX (Miami Art Week 2022, Signal Festival Prague 2023, Vilnius Light Festival 2024), ENTER (NXT Museum Amsterdam, Khroma New Media Museum in Berlin) and LOTUS (LOTUS brand store on Paris Fashion Week 2023); music video Symphony in Acid (Max Cooper); collectible phygital sculptures CTRL_DAT (Kate Vass Gallerie in Zurich), Digital/Analog Mirror, and BANNERS.

Polish design history has been very tumuluous and directly related to the country's history and political systems.

Taiwan's design culture integrates influences from diverse cultures, including Chinese, Japanese, Western, and indigenous elements, creating a unique and multifaceted style. Additionally, Taiwanese designers emphasize refinement and intricacy, often incorporating local cultural elements such as temple fairs, calligraphy, and traditional crafts into their designs, highlighting cultural heritage. The design industry in Taiwan is closely linked with the technology sector, demonstrating competitiveness in UI/UX design and smart product design. These characteristics may not be fully understood or recognized internationally. Furthermore, Taiwanese design is often influenced by social and political contexts, reflecting concerns about issues such as the environment and local identity.

Though this is about illustration, I think there is a tendency to prefer narrative and explanatory elements over visual (graphical ) interest. (But maybe things have changed a bit recently?)

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.