P.I.W.O is a project created by a Polish student, Filip Rus. ‘Piwo’ in Polish means ‘Beer’ in English. Through an innovative building illumination system, they entertain university campuses and color the socialist architecture design of Polish buildings at the same time.

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Natalia Nazimek (NTHLEE) is Polish illustrator, living and studying in the UK. She started out learning with graphic software at home through trial and error and now she work on various art projects for international brands, magazines and advertising agencies.

Here’s some haunting footage of the recent Midsummer celebrations in Pozan, Poland, where people released 11,000 floating lanterns into the sky. Apparently they were all made out of biodegradable sugar paper and compacted hay, so they didn’t do much environmental damage.

Here’s some haunting footage of the recent Midsummer celebrations in Pozan, Poland, where people released 11,000 floating lanterns into the sky. Apparently they were all made out of biodegradable sugar paper and compacted hay, so they didn’t do much environmental damage.

Peterio is a photographer and artist from Poland. His photo manipulations are both surreal and intense: his very personal interpretation of gloomy visual poetry.

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Wow, they are getting into some crazy things in Poland! The aptly named PMS Collective have positioned a series of ‘‘friendly blow-up dolls‘ for those Polish drivers, and cyclists, who just can’t wait until they get home. Sander Reijgers, where are you when we need you!

Bart Pogoda is one of these people whose life is an inspiration for others. He quit his office job and traveled low cost around the world, telling the stories of people he met on the road. In the process, he learned to take pictures and become one of the leading photo-bloggers in Poland. His passion was such that soon he became one of the top professional photographers in the country.

OFF Festival is a unique event on the map of summer music festivals in Europe. The organizers invite only indie, low-fi, experimental, and avant-garde artists who are worth showing, including bands like The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. This year’s special event is devoted to Frederic Chopin. Born in Poland 200 years ago, the composer’s music will be mixed by artists such as Fennesz and William Basiński. In addition, well-known artists, like Wilhelm Sasnal, are invited every year to paint murals in the city. This year, the OFF Festival has changed the location from Poland’s Mysłowice to Katowice. Definitely worth visiting.

Kuba Kossak is one of the most interesting young Polish filmmakers. He’s got a solid music education, so his great shots are always well matched to the music. Check out his recent shoot for Maleman Magazine.

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Karol Grygoruk, acting as the Pepper Pirate, takes pictures of hipsters and strangers amidst the coolest spots in Warszawa. He catches the dark side of the city and the colorful people who sin there.

Have you ever thought about how much energy you might be wasting just using your muscles to move your body? Well, Jakub Szczęsny from Warsaw clearly has. He has decided to collect the energy of people exercising outdoors by building, in conjunction with a group of engineers and the team the FunBec.eu foundation, a synchronised floating platform for water purification. Exercise would put the purification process into motion. Simple, clever, brilliant!

Polish illustration superstar, hipster mum, edgy creative director of lifestyle magazine, Exklusiv, and my best friend, Agata Nowicka’s site finally got a makeover, with tons of new exciting work. Be the first to witness the coolest of Warsaw.

Polish artist and designer Marek Cecula makes cheeky, phallic, yonic, and scatological pieces out clean, industrial materials (porcelain, stainless steel, chrome), taking Duchamp’s urinal to a new and strikingly beautiful level.

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Splitting her time between the UK and her native Poland, Beata Szczecinska works under the name of Cityabyss and creates illustrations that are heavily influenced by the world of fashion, graphic arts, photography, design and modern cityscapes. Her works has been featured in publications such as Varoom Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine, Illusive 2 Book, Katalogue, Web Design Index, Castle Magazine, and Carpal Tunell Magazine, among others. Recently, she started a partnership with Warsaw-based art buying and production house, Alabama. [see also the work of French illustrator Sophie Toulouse]

H.R. Geiger has nothing on Polish painter Zdzislaw Bekinski. The late artist’s obsessively rendered and nightmarish visions draw as much from Bosch and the Renaissance as they do from the surrealists while still capturing modern notions of death and terror.

With its long history in poster design and with a younger generation of artists who grew up with both Eastern and Western European influences, the ‘new Poland’ is booming. I had a blast when I visited Warsaw about a year ago and met all the movers and shakers in design. My friend just sent me a link to Tymek Jezierski’s amazing comic works. They’re so fresh! The only problem I have with them is that I don’t read Polish.