#polish design

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1974 Konstanty Sopoćko illustrations for "Puc, Bursztyn i goście"

(book from my private collection)

[unearthly-strange-and-delightful]

costume design by Agnieszka Osipa

photography by Marcin Nagraba

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[haluca]

“Bluszcz” - “Ivy” polish vintage magazine

[alejaolch]

Jęczmień płony / wall barley (Hordeum murinum) and stokłosa / brome grass (Bromus) in a Polish pottery handpainted vase, the Bogucice manufacture, ca 1970s.

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[modernistdelights]

My friend Charlie read this article (The Insane History of Polish Movie Posters) the other day and ended up sending me a print of one of them, because he knew I'd like it, and he was obviously right. I was so excited to display it I whacked it on the nearest available surface, hence why it's currently hiding behind M&S vouchers. I didn't clock this initially, I was so taken in by the colours, but from the top of the stairs (and a little bit in this picture too) it looks like a face. It's great.

I promise not to turn this into a Polish Poster Blog, but another one of my favourites is the poster for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Franciszek Starowieyski. I have a print of it somewhere. I'll level with you - it's quite ugly! You'd think one of the keystones of good design is that the item is pleasing to look at, and this is anything but, so how exhilarating that an artist has the freedom to create something which doesn't conform to that expectation? I think it catches your attention, which makes it very effective nevertheless. For a start, when I saw it on eBay I couldn't stop thinking about it until I purchased it.

Here's the article, and I recommend reading it if only to find out the fascinating reason behind why communist Poland had such a vibrant movie poster design culture.

THE INSANE HISTORY OF POLISH MOVIE POSTERS — sabukaru

For decades a movement pushed its individual style to a new extreme, in ways that even for today's standards seem absolutely crazy and radi

[agirlnamedbone]

Polish poster for The Cranes Are Flying // Roman Cieslewicz // 1958