Barbara
Bigosińska
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ABOUT ME
Designer. She graduated from Type and Media Master in Den Haag in 2013 with Mala Type Family. Before, she earned a master degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice where as well she has been a student-assistant at the lettering and typography workshop during the 2010/2011 academic year. Devoted typographic designer and skillfull illustrator, who looks for the opportunities to combine diversified fields of design.
EXPERIENCE ▸ August – October 2011 – typographic designer at Dumbar Studio, Rotterdam, Netherlands (work on ATYPI project); ▸ since November 2011 – full-time graphic designer, Artis Media, Katowice, Poland; ▸ August – November 2011 – full-time graphic designer, WASKO IT, Gliwice, Poland; ▸ January 2011 – freelance work for Kologi Logistic Enterprise, graphic design: visual identity, claim, www. Katowice, Poland; ▸ November 2010 – June 2011 – student-assistant at the lettering and typoghaphy workshop, Academy of Fine Arts Katowice, Poland; ▸ August 2010 – work for Gazeta Wyborcza, typesetting the festival newspaper Na Horyzoncie [On Horizon] during Era New Horizons Festival, Wrocław, Poland; ▸ since July 2010 – part-time work for Disenso (official distributor of Playboy products in Poland), junior brand manager, Bytom, Poland; ▸ since June 2008 – freelance work for Sztuka Beskidzka: graphic design, product design. Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland;
CONTACT & INFO mobile.: 0031 614 866 216 b.bigosinska@gmail.com WWW barbarabigosinska.com bbigosinska.blogspot.nl graphicalli.tumblr.com
ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES ▸ 12. January 2012 – typeface Sambukka awarded in the 10. International Students Graphic Design Biennal Agrafa in the category: typefaces, Katowice, Poland ▸ 17. November 2011 – painting exhibition Beremonty, Cooler Club, Katowice, Poland; ▸ October 2011 – painting exhibition Zoom, see on the gallery web page, Roundabout of Art, Katowice, Poland; ▸ April – December 2011 – participant in workshop Ala ma fonta focused on typedesign [Sambukka Regular is the result]; ▸ October 2010 – July 2011 – scholarship-holder from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage; ▸ May 2010 – participant in exhibition expo 2010, Polish Pavilon, /Barbara carpet/, Shanghai, China; ▸ April 2010 – participant in exhibition Book well designed, let’s starrt from chlderen, Roundabout of Art, Katowice, Poland; ▸ August 2009 – Barbara carpet featured by the magazine Twój Styl, August 2009, nr 8 (229), p.125; ▸ 21– 25. October 2009 – participant in international workshop Rural poster in Bahon, Slovakia, efforts exhibited in Satelit Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia; ▸ 01. April 2009 – good design competition finalist, by Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw, Poland; ▸ 27. February – 30. April 2009 – painting exhibition, Basement City Museum, Siemianowice Śl., Poland ▸ 07. January – 03. February 2009 – painting exhibition, Uppersilesian Culture Centre, Katowice, Poland; ▸ 21 – 27. September 2008 – participant in international workshop Design na Kolesach, Stanica Zilina, Slovakia; PERSONAL snowboard, bike, hiking, non-fiction literature, coffee, drawing
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MALA
after a long and adventurous travel I am honoured to introduce you �
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AND ALL OF THAT IN USEFUL 8 WEIGHTS
It has been the longest year ever (too much of coffee and hours spend on moving little details around) | 2012 / 2013
Cartography is the study and practice of MAKING MAPS. Combining science, aesthetics, and TECHNIQUE, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that COMMUNICATE spatial information effectively.
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TODAY
real BEAUTY vs even more real
UGLINESS
This entire portfolio is set in Mala, my graduation project at Type and Media in The Hague. I designed Mala as a type family mostly dedicated to cartography and maps. Therefore, the range of the widths and weights is quite courageous, not to say: adventurous. I see Mala as a great opportunity to explore, push the boarders and risk. This means – to learn with method of enless tries and mistakes. At the moment Mala consists of 8 styles that are means to work together in a very specific way
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
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TO EXPLAIN THE IDEA BETTER, ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES, YOU ARE INVITED FOR A SHORT TRIP WITH MALA | ▸▸▸
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sambukka
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SAMBUKKA
Sambukka is a contemporary serif typeface based on the double-pencil method. Most of all it is dedicated to the artistic books, poetry and short prosaic forms so as to enhance the meaning of each word. The general look of Sambukka was inspired by the Hebrew lettering from ‘20 and ‘30 and it could be used in latin-hebrew short stories such as legends, parables and haggadĂ s. Based on tool lettershapes emphasize the certain roughness and strongness of the typefaces. Massive serifs underlines the x-hight and influence its stability. Due to the richness of treated with a great care details Sambukka perfoms excellent both in small and big sizes.
Sambukka was thought to perform in four basic weights: regular, italic, bold and bold italic, featuring also small caps and special characters.. The italic deserves additional attention due to its calligraphic flavours which are highy contrasted with the regular. Sambukka is still under development.
Question of luck
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Allright , she was there. Nie
and toxic substances.
ką wciągnąć do nosa.*
in this way, through the mis-
– we import food from far away,
it to complicated and expensive
deeds of the irrespons ible human
from africa, america, china
purification plants, or more
pomyślała. Czuła, że wiaruje. Arbuz y pachną wyjątkowo ładnie, szczególnie, gdy są różowe. Miała
ioto ganzes Nacht,
einbisschen gelbisch. Higati beaviron lelud. Beseder ma slom istexa. Slixa ani musra x liks. Toda raba somi tov.
svi bevakasa. Gvirti, ani roca limsor et
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WILDA
Wilda is a trial of combinig my illustration skills with type knowledge. It is not serious pixel based project that allowed me to think about lettershapes in a very different way. The entire typeface has been drawn by hand on the transparent paper. God bless the technology! Thanks to Novotypo and TypoPixo, Amsterdam
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DRAWING
This happens when I get a good fineliner
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BOOK
Just on the market! Cover, set of 25 infographics and typographical supervision for the book "Junge Menschen und ihre Rechte". Project executed together with my Type and Media classmate Diana Ovezea. Amazing experience f working in a team of fantastic people with good attitude and energy.
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CARPETS
Woollen carpet designed for Sztuka Beskidzka
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