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W grudniu poprowadziłem wraz z Zosią Strumiłło drugą edycję warsztatów Drukujemy Zin! na Wydziale Wzornictwa warszawskiej ASP. Publikacja, która jest wynikiem prawie trzech tygodni pracy studentów nosi nazwę „BUDYń”. Można ją kupić w księgarni Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej przy ul. Pańskiej 3 oraz w dziekanacie Wydziału Wzornictwa przy ul. Myśliwieckiej 8. Cena zinu jest otwarta – płacący sam decyduje ile zapłaci.

Zin można obejżeć również na ekranie:
www.scribd.com/doc/24977923/drukujemy-zin-druga-edycja-zin-BUDY%C5%84

Dokumentacja fotograficzna warsztatów jest dostępna pod adresem:
picasaweb.google.com/drukujemyzin

Strona projektu Drukujemy Zin!:
drukujemyzin.blogspot.com

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In December together with Zofia Strumiłło I conducted the second edition of the We Print Zines! workshops at the Industrial Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The resulting publication is called ”BUDYń” (Polish for ’pudding’) and is available for sale at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. The price of the zine is open – you decide what you pay.

The zine can be viewed also online:
www.scribd.com/doc/24977923/drukujemy-zin-druga-edycja-zin-BUDY%C5%84

Photographic documentation is available here:
picasaweb.google.com/drukujemyzin

Website of the project We Print Zines!:
drukujemyzin.blogspot.com

W dniach 11 i 16 grudnia poprowadziłem warsztaty drukarskie w Muzeum Etnograficznym w Warszawie. W użyciu była kompaktowa prasa drukarska Adana HS2, kilka krojów metalowych czcionek oraz przygotowane na tą okazję małe linoryty. Jeden z uczestników opublikował dokumentację fotograficzną warsztatów.
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On December 11th and 16th I conducted letterpress workshops in the Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. We used a compact letterpress (Adana HS2), a few metal typefaces and small linocuts prepared for this occasion. One of the participants published a photographic documentation of the workshops.

Warszawa24h is a project that was realised during the summer of 2009 in Warsaw as part of the global cityoneminutes.org initiative. Altogether four of my short films were accepted and recently published on their website. The method was to choose one place or thing in the city and film it during one hour during the day and the same 12 hours later (e.g. at 1pm and 1am). The resulting material was cut in exactly one minute long films. Below are links to my clips.

Warsaw public transport during night and day:
http://www.cityoneminutes.org/#/warsaw/3
http://www.cityoneminutes.org/#/warsaw/15

Trade Halls on Mirowski square during night and day:
http://www.cityoneminutes.org/#/warsaw/11
http://www.cityoneminutes.org/#/warsaw/23

I’ve finally set up my new website based on Wordpress blogging software with filtering, comments, easy posting and other stuff like that. Most of the old posts still have to be completed. The old web is archived here.

Realised: Summer 2009, Warsaw/Helsinki
Title: Siirtolapuutarhapelit / Działkowiec / Allotment Games
Media: game design, illustration & production

Together with Andrew Paterson, Natalia Kulka, Lotta Kauppi and Simo Haanpää we’ve created a game based on the popular tile game Carcassonne. The rules are the same but in our version the cities were replaced with allotment gardens and the fields with suburbs. Different designs were produced and all of them were release under a CC license and available for download here. A sample of my take on the game is presented below.
Project website: siirtolapuutarhapelit.wikidot.com

I’ve taken part in translating the book “Kleine Geschichte Tibets” (A Brief History of Tibet) by Karenina Kollmar-Paulenz from German to Polish. The result is available on the polish market under the title “Tybet. Zarys historii” published by Dialog. I was also involved in designing the new cover which I had to abandon due to the low visual profile of the publisher.

Completed: May 2009, Warsaw
Title: patrykdamiecki.com
Media: web design
Client: Patryk Damięcki

Clean and functional website featuring Patryk’s paintings. Based on and developed from his initial concept.

Realised: April 2009, Helsinki
Title: Alternative Economy Cultures seminar: WarszawaGratis.info
Media: slideshow, presentation
Host: PixelACHE Festival of Electronic Art and Subcultures

I presented the project WarszawaGratis.info on the Alt.econ.cult seminars during Pixelache festival in Helsinki. Documentation of the entire event is here: 2009.pixelache.ac/alternative-economy-cultures-documentations. Shortly after the seminar a post on the subject was published on the P2P Foundation’s blog. Click below to see the video documentation.

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Realised: April 2009, Helsinki
Title: Old Believers in Romania
Media: photo slideshow, lecture & discussion
Host: ARKADIA Oy International Bookshop

In the summer of 2008 I spent 4 days in a monastery in the Dobrugea region of Romania. I took part in an annual celebration of believers of the Old Rite and documented the rituals. This year I presented the materials during a presentation in a bookshop in Helsinki. Here’s the talk announced on the bookshop blog: www.arkadiabookshop.fi/blog/?p=144

Completed: March 2009, Helsinki
Title: Pixelache 2009
Media: offset, silkscreen
Client: PixelACHE Festival of Electronic Art and Subcultures

Once again I’ve designed all the materials for the annual electronic art festival in Helsinki. This time the dominating colour was magenta and the leading graphic on the poster was a hair dryer used as a megaphone. I chose ‘Reykjavik Two’ to be the headline typeface of the event from now on. Here are the festival credits: 2009.pixelache.ac/organisers-and-supporters. Click below to see the graphic materials.

→click here to see the images