Motto

Poland

Michal

Piernikowski

Design

social design

Bio

Director of the Łódź Design Festival. Enthusiast of urban activities and design. Initiator and co-organizer of many projects related to the creative industries, m.in. the Ad Days Advertising Festival, the Creative Industries Conference, Art_Inkubatora and Fotofestiwal. Co-founder of Łódź Art Center, member of the team implementing activities in Łódź to popularize broadly understood design.

Clients

make me!, must have, Polish Job, Polish Job 2.0,

Awards

Annual Award of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Design

Design Alive Award

Badge of Merit for the City of Lodz

More Speakers and Mentors

Ian

Lynam

There are three different reading directions for typeset Japanese!

Miroslaw

Klis

In the world of graphic design Poland is known for Polish School of Posters active in 1950s-1980s with expressive solutions based mainly on illustration. In the last years we finally started discovering the unknown heritage in logo design and typography with great masters such as Karol Śliwka, Ryszard Bojar and many more.

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.

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.

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