Designers in Seoul
Designers in Tokyo
Designers in Taipei
Column Four
Freelance illustrator based in Tokyo. Dropped out of the Visual Communication Design Department at Musashino Art University.
With the motto that graphics have the power to change something, She provides illustrations for a wide range of media, including posters, packages, CD/DVD jackets, miscellaneous goods, and textiles, both domestically and internationally. She also has a wide range of activities, including actively participating in overseas exhibitions, workshops, and conferences.
She draws illustrations while being surprised and moved by the coincidences that happen on paper. It may be similar to the innocent joy a child feels when touching clay for the first time. These slightly strange creatures born through her hands out of nowhere, beyond her consciousness, are like an extension of a child's doodles, like music, or like alchemy to make something wonderful out of the monotonous daily life.
Itabashi Art Museum, Paris Baguette Jeju garden store, Halcyon Night, IIIVIVINIKO, Fine Little Day, Potatokids
MJ Award, Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition, ILUSTRARTE, The Choice, TIS Competition, Illust-Note Note-Exhibition
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?)
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.
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.