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Column Four
Editorial Design, Publishing, Activism
A type designer and researcher, Marian Misiak is also a co-author of "Paneuropa, Kometa, Hel", a book about the history of Polish typography.
Working primarily for Polish cultural institutions, he designed a new visual identity for the National Museum of Wroclaw and U'jazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art.'
He is also a co-author of the new logo of Warsaw Public Transport.'After years of activity in a local field as a designer, guest lecturer and writer, he focused on type design and developing his own type foundry, threedotstype.com. Misiak is not afraid of jet lag and is interested in cross-cultural and experimental type design.
The most beautiful Polish Books, Polish Graphic Design Awards, Type Directors Club
I think that Polish design is mainly associated with the Polish school of posters – and this is definitely superficial, because we had very good illustrators and an extremely interesting history of typography and the geopolitical changes that influenced its development.
I have the impression that design culture in Poland has been changing in a good way over the last few years. Increasingly, clients see value in what we do and appreciate it. Of course, there will also be people who do not fully value our work, in which case it is better to let such a project go.
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.
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?)