About us 🧔🏻👱🏻♀️ and our design 💡 📓 ✒️ practice
We are two-person team working in the field of visual communication. We create effective and beautiful tools of interaction with your content and your services.
How do we design?
We don’t have one specific methodology. We are flexible. Each project requires a slightly different approach, adapted to the field, scale, budget and goals.
Our starting point of every design journey is a proper definition of a unique design problem. Depending on how complex the project is, we use different tools at this stage: from direct conversations, through a more formalized brief, to workshops with the client or the cooperation with specialists in the field of creating communication strategies.
A solid definition of the design problem is an introduction to the development of the main creative idea on which the project will be built. It is also a point of reference, thanks to which the evaluation of the project will be possible.
Looking for a solution to a design problem, we like to deviate into non-obvious areas. For us it is a value in itself. Copying well-known design patterns and the exploring the safe solutions is just not our thing.
Michael Bierut wrote: at some point, solutions suddenly pop up in my mind. I can’t explain it: it’s a kind of magic. I can add to this that there is no magic but the effect of acumulating information, ideas, images, artifacts, experiences, and then mindfully experimenting with them.
What do we design?
We specialize in visual identities, publications, annual reports, UX / UI of web and mobile applications, magazines, and websites. We are not afraid to enter new areas of design. To quote Massimo Vignelli, we agree that if you can design one thing, you can design everything.
Who do we design for?
We work mainly for cultural and scientific institutions, such as publishing houses, foundations, associations, art curators and universities and start-ups.
Inspired by “First Things First” manifesto, we measure the value of my work not only by the money it earns but also by its impact on society and the environment we live in. Therefore, we are always eager to take part in non-commercial projects for ecology, minorities’ rights, and animal rights. Write us a message if you feel that we can do something valuable together.
Clients:
Admind Agency
Art Synergy
Bradmax
Curatorial Workgroup
Ekstraklasa
FNP
Jesuit University Ignatianum
Kahan Foundation
Krakowska 34 Foundation
Konteksty Studio
MAMSAM
Moja Cafe
Nomos Publishing House
Restoria Maja Potrawiak
Skłirowany Kraków
SoundQ
Studio2wx
Tomasz Pluta
Teatralia
Towarzystwo Naukowe im. Stanisława Andreskiego
Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych
Viceversa
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Ignatianum
Our competencies:
Visual design
Visual Identity
— complex VI systems
— logo & stationery sets
— brand manuals
— promotional materials
Publications
— books
— magazines
— reports
Posters
Illustrations
Infographics
Typeface design
Motion design
Animation
UX/UI
Webpages
Mobile apps
Branding
Brand communication strategy
Art direction
Others
Typesetting
Print prepress
Product photography
Publications, lectures and others:
Lecture at 6th Kraków Dribble Meetup: You gotta fight for your right to design. My crowdfunded projects, 2022
Interview in Książka po okładce. O współczesnym polskim projektowaniu okładek książkowych, by Patryk Mogilnicki, Karakter, 2021
Nomination for Polish Graphic Design Awards 2020 in the category: report, educational book, technical book, dictionary, for the book design Antynatalizm. O niemoralności płodzenia dzieci
Mention in Dosłownie, Liternicze i typograficzne okładki polskich książek 1944-2019, Janusz Górski, Karakter, 2019