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BarbaraBigosińska

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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;

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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;

PERSONALsnowboard, bike, hiking,non-fiction literature,coffee, drawing

CONTACT & INFOmobile.: 0031 614 866 216 b.bigosinska@gmail.com

WWW barbarabigosinska.combbigosinska.blogspot.nlgraphicalli.tumblr.com

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MALA

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

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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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Ragged Island AcklinsIsland

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AndrosIsland

Great Exuma

BiminiIslands

Moore'sIsland Abaco

Grand Bahama

Cayman Islands(U.K.)

SanSalvador Conception

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CrookedIsland

Samana Cay

RumCay

Flamingo Cay

Seal Cay

Nures Cay

Cay Verde

Cay Santo Domingo(The Bahamas)

Cay Lobos(The Bahamas)

Guinchos Cay(The Bahamas)

Norman's Cay

Orange Cay

South Car CayNorth Car Cay

Great HarbourCay

Damas Cays

AnguillaCays

Elbow Cay

Walker's Cay

Cay SalBank

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Great Guana Cay

WaderichWells Cay

HawksbillCay

HighbournCay

Cornishtown

Hope Town

Dunmore Town

New Bight

ClarenceTown

Abraham'sBay

Colonel Hill

MatthewTown

Holguin

Manzanillo Bayamo

Camagüey

Guantanamo

Nuevitas

Ciego deÁvila

Santa Clara

Sancti Spiritus

Cienfuegos

Georgetown

AndrosTown

NichollsTown

Freeport

Fort Lauderdale

Miami

CockburnTown

Santiagode Cuba

Santa Cruzdel Sur

CongoTown

NewProvidence

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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 haggadàs.

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.

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18 Question of luck?how much would you riskReligious coercion | A shy eight-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war.Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls’ school for fear of ultra-Orthodox men who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing immodestly& bitchy.

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sambukkais still under development.

Allright, she was there.

INNA METODA TO także nalanie likieru do konia-

kówki, wsypanie tam łyżeczki cukru i ziarenka kawy.

Całość podpalamy i chwilę obracamy naczynie aż do

momentu karmelizacji cukru. Następnie wlewamy

trunek do pustej whiskaczówki i przykrywamy konia-

kówką. Po zgaśnięciu płomienia koniakówkę kła-

dziemy na serwetkę z rurką. Zawartość whiskaczówki

wypijamy na raz następnie wdychamy przez rurkę

opary z koniakówki. Na sam koniec można przelać

to, co zostało na wierzchu koniakówki i mała rurecz-

ką wciągnąć do nosa.*

it took millions of years

for vegetation to cover

the sludge and toxic

substances with a layer

of humus, a layer of veg-

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oxygen, so that humans

can live on earth. And

now ungrateful humans

are bringing the sludge

and toxic substances.

dobre wyniki, odrobina szczęścia i determinacja warunkiem dostania się na wymarzone studia. niekoniecznie prawda ma znaczenie. Justice system makes somehow good music, however i do prefer ghostpoet electro flow or classical music.

in this way, through the mis-

deeds of the irresponsible human

species, the end of the world is

becoming the beginning of all

time. we are committing suicide.

our cities are carcinomas.

we don’t eat what grows near us

– we import food from far away,

from africa, america, china

and new zealand. we don’t

keep our shit. our rubbish, our

waste is flushed far away. we

are poisoning rivers, lakes and

oceans with it, or we transport

it to complicated and expensive

purification plants, or more

rarely to centralized compost-

ing facilities. in other cases,

our waste is destroyed. the shit

never returns to our fields, and

neither does it return to where

Nie powiedział ani słowa. Oszalałam,

pomyślała. Czuła, że wiaruje.

Arbuzy pachną wyjątkowo ładnie,

szczególnie, gdy są różowe. Miała

ładne duże oczy. Idioto ganzes Nacht,

a nie patrz. Madagaskar i wakacje

brzmialy wyjatkowo atrakcyjnie.

Irresponsibility is somewhat natural

in some cases. It is our baby, love

19Question of luck?how much would you riskReligious coercion | A shy eight-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious war.Naama Margolese is a ponytailed, bespectacled second-grader afraid of walking to her religious Jewish girls’ school for fear of ultra-Orthodox men who have spat on her and called her a whore for dressing immodestly& bitchy.

After significant media attention to the young girl’s plight, thousands came out to protest on Tuesday evening against gender segregation and violence against women at a rally in Beit Shemesh, 30 km to the west of Jerusalem.

Mickey Rosenfeld, a police spokesperson, told Al Jazeera a large number of security forces would be deployed for the march, following attacks on media and police on Sunday and Monday by members of the ultra-Orthodox community.

Protesters held signs at Tuesday’s protest saying, Free Israel from religious coercion and Stop Israel from becoming Iran, but members of the ultra-Orthodox community& (. . .)

The demonstration today is a test for the people and not just the police Deutsch Zeitungen für Informationen über lokale Fragen, Politik, Veranstaltungen, Feiern, Menschen und Unternehmen. Suchen für Übernachtung, Shopping, Schnäppchen und Wetter, dann ist dies die Ort zu starten. Informationen über Urlaub, Ferien, Resorts, real Grundstücks-und Immobilien zusammen mit Finanzen,

Börse und Investitionen Berichte, auch für Theater-

Two ilalics and gi�recognizabl�.karmazynowy dom

Allright, she was there.

dobre wyniki, odrobina szczęścia i determinacja warunkiem dostania się na wymarzone studia. niekoniecznie prawda ma znaczenie. Justice system makes somehow good music, however i do prefer ghostpoet electro flow or classical music.

Nie powiedział ani słowa. Oszalałam,

pomyślała. Czuła, że wiaruje.

Arbuzy pachną wyjątkowo ładnie,

szczególnie, gdy są różowe. Miała

ładne duże oczy. Idioto ganzes Nacht,

a nie patrz. Madagaskar i wakacje

brzmialy wyjatkowo atrakcyjnie.

Irresponsibility is somewhat natural

in some cases. It is our baby, love

just comes naturally. Auswurf war

einbisschen gelbisch. Higati beaviron

lelud. Beseder ma slom istexa. Slixa

ani musrax liks. Toda raba somi tov.

svi bevakasa. Gvirti, ani roca limsor et

habgadim lenikuy. Masar beged nika.

Beseder. xatixot yes nire kama. ze

raayon mecuyan. kar haymonken.

Ze mar’e nexmad.

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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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