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Zofia

Dzierzawska-Bojanowska

Design

Comics

Bio

Zosia Dzierżawska is an illustrator & comic author from Warsaw, Poland, and a co-founder of Studio Armad’illo, an illustration and graphic design studio based in Milan. She works for a variety of international publishers, using her soft, expressive lines in children’s books, comics and editorial illustration.

Previous collaborations include Oxford University Press, Rizzoli, Candlewick Press, and others. Her works have been awarded twice at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition, as well as at the Society of Illustrators in New York.

She loves getting her hands dirty with inks, watercolors, greasy pencils, and other traditional media.

Clients

Nobrow, Candlewick Press, I'm Changing, Oxford University Press, The Chopin Museum, The New York Times

Awards

Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrator's Exhibition (twice),

Society of Illustrators New York Annual (twice),

Sydney Taylor Book Award (US),

Children's Literature Festival (PL)

More Speakers and Mentors

Zofia

Dzierzawska-Bojanowska

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

Ola

Niepsuj

Polish design culture is deeply rooted in a rich tradition of poster art, known as the "Polish School of Poster Art," a movement that combined bold graphics and a strong sense of symbolism to convey complex messages with minimal resources. Contemporary Polish design often draws inspiration from this heritage, including "designing by hand", while blending it with a modern, digital aesthetic.

Michal

Piernikowski

Polish design consistently marks its presence on global markets, combining diferent perspectives that reflects the cultural context of Poland, while perfectly adapting to the expectations of customers from all over the world. Today polish design not only draws on its history and regional motifs, creatively reinterpreting patterns from the past, but also develops by embracing new values like: innovation, responsibility, resourcefulness, locality, and nostalgia.

HyoJun

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.

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