Magdalena Horanin

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Cover book inspired by a real story of Arn - a boy who survived Cambodian genocide and become a man of peace. 

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Last year I had pleasure to work on some graphics for a mobile game - character designs, backgrounds and UI. It was an amazing adventure and a lot of work, but unfortunately it has never been finished. 

I decided to  share some of my favourite pieces including sketches and references.

I think sketch phase is my favourite. I like those rough lines and how they slowly create new values. They very often more lively than finished pieces I think.

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I came to Laos 5 months ago to work for a fair trade company specialised in traditional textiles.

I’ve been working on the new branding for them. Can’t show more, but it’s coming soon

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After 20h bus ride from Chiang Mai finally I arrived in Luang Prabang - lovely town in northern Laos. Exciting to stay here for the next couple of months working on some projects! 

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I am very happy to recently work on visual identity for this amazing new Polish brand - Coodo for kids.

Main objective: to create simple, elegant branding which will fit to company’s philosophy.  

Coodo is a new modern brand focused on joy of parenthood. Organic cotton, detailed oriented, simple, conformable and friendly. And what is important all products are proudly made in Poland. 

Part of branding: logo, character design, swing tags, labels social media graphics, promotional materials, patterns (wall papers), package designs, stickers and more.

more: coodo.pl , horanin.com

photos:   Anita Suchocka Photography , coodo.pl

textiles: Magdalena Tekieli

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I abandoned my computer for 7 days. After 1,5 year without holidays I could enjoy some free time in this crazy city. 

Ho Chi Minh is hot, busy and noisy. It is kind of place that you love or hate I guess. But I had amazing time there exploring some popular spots and hidden nooks.

It doesn’t have to be pretty to be beautiful. 

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Just a quick snick peek from the latest illustration project.

It is just a rough sketch which is going to be a part of the bigger series. Because it was important to me to show specific way of walking, I decided to take some reference pictures of myself. It helped a lot!

I still need to work on details and color but I thought it will be interesting to show how the sketch has been developed.

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I am back in Chiang Mai (Thailand) after few months in my lovely home town.

I still have many sketches and reference photos that i took during that time. So slowly working on them and trying some new techniques and brushes :)

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Lucy - is a new illustration made between two commercial projects. Inspired by my friend’s lovely cat. 

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During my stay in Asia (2014/2015) I had chance to work with a team of passionate and dedicated people from Kids Home Foundation. It was amazing time! This small group of people change lives of children in Thailand and I am still impressed by their work! 

 Kids Home Foundation is a Thai non-profit organization which supports migrant construction workers in Thailand. Most of the families come from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and stay in makeshift shelters in slum areas.

Three main objectives of KHF are to provide education, health care and to create safe environment for children in need.

During over a year of collaboration I have had chance to work on various communication materials. Main aim was to create consistent visual identification which helps to raise funds and to communicate with partners.

From November 2014 till April 2015 we continued to work on corporate identity which includes internal and external print materials and online projects.

for mor inforamtion: www.kids-home.org , 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kids-Home-Foundation/1561457697460242?fref=ts

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Work which waits for it’s turn (2014).

A few sketches for comics story based on true events. It’s my first approach to picture-story. I tried different coloring but I decided to keep it black and white for now. All sketches are done but still a lot of work with inking left though.

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I’ve spent my life trying to undo habits—especially habits of thinking. They narrow your interaction with the world. They’re the phrases that come easily to your mind, like: ‘I know what I think,’ or ‘I know what I like,’ or ‘I know what’s going to happen today.’ If you just replace ‘know’ with ‘don’t know,’ then you start to move into the unknown. And that’s where the interesting stuff happens.

Humans of New York

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This amazing event took place on 11th July in my home town . Colorful parade of people walked through streets of Leba to celebrate town’s birthday and day when Leba decided to become the Principality! 

Principality of Leba, of course, is  just a marketing gimmick. Our small town still belongs to Poland but for promotional cause there are special passports and every few years people of Leba choose new Prince! It’s so much fun and tourists seem to like it ;).

More than few years ago it was a big thing in all media. Nobody knew if it’s true or just a crazy joke. In all news people could see new border cross with independent ‘kingdom’. Shops announced duty-free zone and everyone had to have passports to enter the town. Nowadays it is not so crazy but still very energetic.

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Every weather is a good weather :D

It was amazing day. The view was priceless. People almost always expecting sun and heat during the summer by the Polish sea, but they forget that Baltic  has its own personality and you can’t tell him what to do ;).

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It has been very busy month, but I always try to find some time to relax after long day in front of computer. 

This summer sun still amaze me... <3

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My design Bomber Gorilla get a new colorful look ;)

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Ice Cat available on society6

www.society6.com/theroyalbubblemaker