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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

Bartlomiej

Witanski

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.

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.

Youl

Joe

History of Korean design and Hangul(Korean Letter), conservatism of Korean culture.

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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