Marek Cecula

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Design on Tuesday 2 September 2008

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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Beata Szczecinska

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Illustration on Thursday 13 March 2008

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, [...]

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Zdzislaw Beksinski

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in New Art on Wednesday 27 February 2008

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.

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Tymek Jezierski’s comics and illustration

Yuko Shimizu Reader Find

By Yuko Shimizu in New Illustration on Wednesday 16 January 2008

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 [...]

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