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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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Identity
2025Uniforma’s brand identity for Polish nightclub Schron is utiliarian yet expressive
2025
Publication
2022Dripping in “Arab nostalgia”, 3asal mag platforms MENA creatives who are abandoning conformity and thrashing outdated stereotypes
2022
Project
2016The classical and the crude combine to represent the multiple facets of The Arab City
2016
Project
2012Bright, bold wood-block prints from Polish character designer Roman Klonek
2012
Project
2019Oliwia Bober's illustrations combine Polish folklore and her personal feelings
2019
Poster
2012New Eye Sea Posters show brings retro Polish poster design to life
2012
Project
2013Bokja's crafty Arab Spring inspired textiles are oddly compelling
2013
Motion
2022Arab pop music meets 80s video game aesthetics in Moath Bin Hafez’s pixel art creations
2022
Identity
2018Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe
2018
Project
2020Agnieszka Sejud reflects on fake news in Poland in her frenzied collages
2020
Project
2011Ilona Karwinska: Polish Cold War Neon
2011
Motion
2022Celebrating the daring designs of Soviet avant-garde film posters with collector Susan Pack
2022
Project
2019Viacheslav Poliakov shoots the “folk-baroque-industrial mess” of Ukraine and Poland
2019
Project
2021The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine
2021
Identity
2022Studio 40Mustaqel challenges the discourse of design in the Arab Swana region
2022
Project
2013Magnificent retelling of Arabian Nights from the brilliant Noa Snir
2013
Poster
2021Explore the women of Soviet Art through this carefully curated poster collection
2021
Project
2009Warsaw Made
2009
Motion
2015Stunning Polish film posters a'plenty over at the BFI
2015
Project
2014Photographs taken inside the Soviet cosmonaut training centre, Star City
2014
Identity
2015Polish designer creates sculpture-inspired identity for arts festival
2015
Publication
2020Lyon Arabic is the new counterpart of a Commercial Type favourite, informed by Naskh and Nastaliq scripts
2020
Project
2017Photographer Zuza Krajewska's fragile portraits of Polish young offenders
2017
Identity
2026Vintage Arab cassette tapes inspired Sometimes Always’ fiery identity for Fouta Harissa
2026
Project
2018A tribute to the repurposed churches of the Soviet Union
2018
Project
2018Mohamad Abdouni on documenting an “important time in Arab queer culture”
2018
Publication
2014Illustration: Owen Davey's latest book is about Laika the Soviet Spacedog
2014
Motion
2015A Le Corbusier-inspired identity for a Polish architecture foundation and film festival
2015
Identity
2026Why minimalist aesthetics (smuggled in as the language of progress) are stifling truly Arab design
2026
Project
2019Polish graphic designer Natalia Pawlak on bad taste and reinterpreting Polish kitsch
2019
Project
2022Photographer Alex Nazari explores Armenian history through its ubiquitous Soviet-era car, the Lada
2022
Publication
2020Soviet Space Graphics: a cosmic journey to Cold War-era Russia
2020
Project
2012Rafal Milach has caught our eye with stunning images of Poland and beyond
2012
Identity
2019Turbo’s identity for the Lesser Amman Library is a masterclass in the potential of Arabic type
2019
Publication
2020We dive into a new archive of over 1,000 book covers from the Arab world
2020
Project
2022Type foundry Boharat Cairo on the vast possibilities of Arabic type design
2022
Project
2016Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Project
2013Check out Polish creative Formallina's knitted heroes calendar!
2013
Project
2016Polish illustrator Gosia Herba interprets myths and legends in pastel tones
2016
Project
2017Russian photographer Turkina Faso on the “post-Soviet aesthetic”
2017
Project
2015Polish creative Lukasz Pachalko’s graphic design project addresses the issues surrounding dyslexia
2015
Poster
2015Polish design practice Syfon Studio teaches us a thing or two about poster design
2015
Project
2013Polish born, Barcelona-based photographer Asia Chmielewska is a real talent
2013
Identity
2020Patryk Hardziej explores a modernist approach to corporate design in Communist Poland
2020
Project
2012Soviet bus stops captured by worldly photographer Christopher Herwig
2012
Motion
2026James Stuart is railing against boring design with techniques inspired by the spirit of Arabic hardcore music
2026
Project
2015Cute and scary and great work from Polish artist Paweł Mildner
2015
Project
2016Active Arab Women: Lara Al-Hadeedi records the determination of sporting Kuwaiti women
2016
Poster
2019Symbols of freedom "and the struggle for it": a look at the Polish School of Posters
2019
Motion
2017Max Litvinov’s avant-garde work is inspired by Soviet animations
2017
Project
2018The history of the hotel Venets: a 22-storey metaphor for Soviet utopia
2018
Publication
2026Samar Maakaroun’s visual identity for The Mosaic Rooms challenges reductive narratives around Arab identities
2026
Identity
2017Photographer Alicja Dobrucka documents tragedy and Polish identity in new book
2017
Project
2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Publication
2019Arabic and Latin typography don’t have to mimic each other to be harmonious says Montasser Drissi
2019
Publication
2021Warsaw-based UVMW designs a playful, hand-drawn wayfinding system for a music school in Poland
2021
Publication
2024The View From Cairo: how Helmi Eltouni’s al-Hilal book covers carved a modern Arab aesthetic
2024
Project
2012Brilliant Lacombe sisters' show Hey'Ya featuring Arab sportswomen opens in London
2012
Poster
2017New publication chronicles Soviet anti-alcohol posters throughout the ages
2017
Poster
2008Polish Poster
2008
Project
2018“A desire for the forbidden would be equal to treason”: Photographer Nikolay Bakharev on life in the USSR (NSFW)
2018
Identity
2016Marta Gawin’s type-based identity celebrates the Polish city of Katowice
2016
Project
2014Photography: Andrew Miksys' photographs of the discos in Soviet era buildings
2014
Publication
2021“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture
2021
Motion
2015Michal Markiewicz’s smart, creative identity for a Polish drone filming company
2015
Project
2016Warsaw creative Peter Tarka creates tidy CGI illustrations
2016
Project
2017A Soviet vision of the future: the legacy and influence of Tekhikia – Molodezhi magazine
2017
Motion
2022Voices of mass demonstration in Poland inspire this new folkloric animation
2022
Project
2021What’s in store for the future of Arabic visual culture? Archief Cairo on communicating across borders
2021
Poster
2021From Rihanna at Barnbrook Studios, to a queer Arab archive: Marwan Kaabour’s graphic design is incredibly bold
2021
Project
2014Stunning Polish Op-art works created in isolation finally celebrated
2014
Typeface
2016Grilli Type designs new typeface inspired by Soviet children’s books
2016
Project
2017A glimpse into the fascinating and incredibly odd world of Soviet-era sanatoriums
2017
Project
2016Drifting SUVs in the Arabian desert: Peter Garritano explores the world of hajwalah
2016
Project
2015The Polish studio creating a stir on Warsaw’s art scene
2015
Project
2015Eerie monochrome photographs at Poland's last Brutalist train station by Michał Łuczak
2015
Publication
2022Hussein Alazaat on children’s books from the 60s-90s and why they demonstrate the “highest peak of Arabic book-making history”
2022
Typeface
2022Three Dots Type explores the importance of arrows and the lettering of 20th Century Polish trains in its experimental typographic work
2022
Publication
2024“The key is irregularity”: This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers
2024
Project
2021Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive
2021
Project
2020Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
Project
2018Chantal Jahchan explores the Arabic type design landscape and concepts of modernity in En Route
2018
Project
2014Polish illustrator Gosia Herba combines a unique style with a Cubist slant
2014
Project
2012A mightily impressive portfolio from Polish illustrator Marta Slawinska
2012
Project
2016Polish illustrator Jaroslaw Danilenko’s comic-like still life illustrations
2016
Identity
2021Graphic designer Lana Soufeh goes back to her roots in a creative exploration of Arabic type-led design
2021
Motion
2016Pioneer of the Polish avant-garde: illustrator, filmmaker and set designer Franciszka Themerson
2016
Project
2012The Soviet Union goes neon in these mid-century illustrations of the future
2012