www.projektydyplomowe.pl

a place to see all of The Best Polish Design Diploma Projects of all editions. www.projektydyplomowe.pl

EASTER'S HERE!

Best Easter Wishes in 1908

How crazy Ester can be? This was some creative man, who art directed this quite surrealistic picture! The saddest thing is that is that the only way to get a chick to stay that still for such a long exposure is to use a stuffed chick... Source


Best Easter Wishes [chick pulling flowers in small wagon]
Rotograph Company of New York, 1908

The New Arrival

Long-awaited Spring finally came. This calls for celebration everybody. Myself, I am glad to have such view outside my window.

Introducing: Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection

Sipho Mabona is an origami artist. Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, can create stunning video commercials when combined with stop motion recording. This video, created for Asics by Sipho’s company Mabona Origami, is the world wide corperate movie that tells the story of the japanese sports brand ASICS won several international prizes. I think it's simply stunning.

Read more about making of here.

Aston Martin Bulldog [1980] Concept Car

I couldn't resist myself from publishing pictures of this amazing car.

Styled by William Towns, the Aston Martin Bulldog was ultimately built as a one-off testbed. Originally, it had been intended to be a limited run of about 25. It was built in the UK, but is a left-hand-drive car. It has an incredibly low height at 110 cm high, and featured a sharp, distinctive gull-wing door design. The interior uses digital instrumentation (!!!) and the rear view is delivered via a television monitor mounted on the center console (a later addition).

The first test drive of the Aston Martin Bulldog came in late 1979 and was a great success. After the development program was over, Aston Martin sold the only Bulldog to the highest bidder. Source

And this one is Lotus Esprit, one of James Bond vehicles. It's here because it's amazing and Bulldog reminds Lotus a bit and because I find this picture extremely inspiring.

Introducing: SPECTRA and KLIMAX

I would like to Introduce you two typefaces, Spectra and Klimax. Both elaborate on quite similar concept with two different approaches. check it out!

Spectra, is a typeface family presenting a spectrum of nine weights from the lightest to heaviest. Spectra is perfect for text as well as display use. Each style includes small caps, ligatures,stylistic alternates and old style numerals. Spectra was designed by a type designer Kamil Kurzajewski in 2008.

Typotheque's Klimax is a display typeface (meant for use in extremely large sizes) with four styles and OpenType features. It includes two basic styles, Plus and Minus — the heaviest and the lightest possible styles that can be made. Klimax was designed in 2009 by Ondrej Jób.

White Lies Concert

White Lies are an alternative post-punk indie band based in London, England BUT on the 10th of March the will be playing a gig in Melkweg, Amsterdam, where luckily, I will be as well.



You can also take a look at the album cover (good design), which was designed by Big Active, a London based creative agency.

FUNDBÜRO

Those are small treats of quite a big collection of my type and logo findings from different places I have gone to. I will try to show some more in time. Hope you will enjoy!


Prague, CZ, 2006


Poznan, PL, 2006


Enschede, NL, 2007


Enschede, NL, 2007


Kruszwica, PL, 2008


Dublin, IRL, 2007


Mur de Bretagne, FR, 2008

un centime francais

We found it some time back in William grandma's collection of coins. 1962 - as you can see. I love the lettering. Why they don't use such cute types on coins any more?

GOOO...

One of the reasons why I may not be the favourite bar customer.

2 plus 3D is out now!

In the new issue of 2+3D magazine| Polish Design Quarterly you can find the previously mentioned publication of The Children Hospital Wayfinding System, diploma project of mine.

Cover Design by Jan Kallwejt [Polish, Warsaw based illustrator, graphic artist, T-shirts designer, working for both DJs and hip-hop artists; as well as large corporations and major magazines]

Best Diploma Projects 2007/08 - the opening of the exhibition

Best Diploma Projects is a review of works of design graduates in Poland. It has been organized for the last six years by the 2+3D - Polish Design Quarterly. For the last four years it has it's continuation in the exhibition prepared together with the Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn. The review does not have the a character of a contest, the formula assumes that there is no winner. 10 best projects (according to the jury) is presented in quarterly 2+3D. There are always more works at the exhibition, so this year has been chosen 21 projects. The jury consists of representatives of the magazine editors, the Silesian Castle and designers of different specialization.

The opening of the exhibitionis on the 30th of January in The Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn, Poland. You can see there The Children Hospital Wayfinding System - my diploma project and a typography project of my very best school friend - Kamil Kurzajewski ------- Congrats!!!

Introducing: Karol Sliwka

There are very few people who can be easily classified as icons of Polish graphic design.There are few artists, who over the last half century have developed a visual identification systems, logos, posters, packaging and signs for such a large group of Institutions.There are very few such people as Karol Śliwka.

Karol Sliwka is one of the most celebrated graphic designers and logotypes author in Poland and Eastern Europe. He designed brandings for many Polish institutions. He still works using only pens and paper, and refuses to use computer programmes. Sliwka's graphics combine simplicity, functionality, readability, universal significance, great composition and thorough design. He also created many posters, packagings, covers and stamps. Although he's 76 years old now, he still keeps on working saying that design is his true love.



For some more tasty treats check www.karolsliwka.pl

D O W N L O A D the ZOOABC Stickers

ZOOABC, which is a part of the Children Hospital Wayfinding System project is now avaliable for DOWNLOAD. If you wish to have those stickers simply click here, download and print the pdf images and enjoy! Just make sure to use self-adhesive A4 sheet ;)

The Children Hospital Wayfinding System. Download the Case Study

The Children Hospital Wayfinding System case study is avaliable for a dowload on punktk.com [my portfolio website] and from now on here as well. Simply click the rainbow star and enjoy.

my one and only quarter century

It is quite a serious matter here - just few days ago I turned 25 and guess what? Nothing has changed. Yet. Looking forward to my first wrinkles. Happy Birthday Kasia!

LogoPond

Lately I have submitted my logo designs to logopond.com. It is a great website where anyone can publish his designs and get a professional feedback. Welcome!

TYPE PLAYER

I was kindly invited by Sandu Cultural Media and Design 360 Magazine to feature my type designs in a new book 'Type Player' as well as in the magazine. More information will be added further.

2 plus 3D!!!

Lucky me. My graduation project - Children Hospital Wayfinding System was honored by being chosen as one of the best graduation projects in Poland 2007/08. The work will be published in the upcoming January issue of 2+3D and presented on few exhibitions in Poland, beginning in Cieszyn (30.01 - 15.03), then Warsaw, Cracow and Poznan. I would like personally thank the 2+3D grafika plus produkt | Polish Design Quarterly for appreciating my work and Tomasz Budzyń for a great comment on the project.

Punkt K - Kasia Kaczmarek Online Showcase

Let me introduce you the online SHOWCASE of mine. Enyone interested in checking out some more of my works is more than welcome. PunktK is here!

The Brand Gap

Really brilliant branding presentation.

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: design brand)

May we all enjoy the New and Better YEAR!

“2009. OH YEAH!” was made from confetti [small bits of paper, usually colored, thrown or dropped from a height to enhance the gaiety of a festive event, as a parade, wedding, or New Year's Eve party]. The project was photographed in different stages of creation, composed into a simple gif animation and sent to my friends.

Merry ChristmasEveryone!

“Merry Christmas” was made from a cookie dough cut into small pieces, composed and cooked in the oven. The project thaught me patience but I enjoyed it loads. Merry Christmas and a piece of the cookie for everyone!

bold design project

It's time to show something, isn't it? I've been working on the logo design for a Parisian design association called 'Bold' - three clever and young product designers. Their new website is launching soon as well. I will pass the link as soon as the site is published. Bold asked for a simple logotype and so those are the proposals i prepared! They haven't chosen yet though. We'll see how it goes... P.S. the typeface used in few of them is Spectra designed by a polish typographer, Kamil Kurzajewski. thank you :)

the PRESS

Well, well, well...

here it is! My diploma project [Children Hospital Wayfinding System] got it's "5-minutes-of-fame-spread" in the press. Visual Communication magazine (Poland).

punktK is coming soon

ZooAbc

Well hello there! The images are small treats of my diploma project. I'll try to publish a full case study about the Children Hospital Wayfinding System project soon. Enjoy the company!

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