February 2008 – May 2009 Graphic Designer at Naughtyfish, Sydney, Australia
December 2008 Freelance, The Cool Hunter for Havaianas Brazil, Sydney, Australia
April 2008 Freelance Illustrator, Billy Blue College of Design, Sydney, Australia
January – February 2007 Freelance Graphic Designer, GQ Australia Magazine, Issue Autumn
October 2002 – March 2003 Internship at 802, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 – 2003 Freelance for Botkyrka Municipality, Sweden
Education2006 – 2008 Bachelor in Communication Design
Billy Blue College of Design, Sydney, Australia
2005 Spanish at Enforex School of Languages
Barcelona, Spain
2004 Webdesign at Nackademin
Stockholm, Sweden
2001 – 2003 Graphic Design and Communication,
Tumba High School, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Fabrica / agIdeas newStar Award
Lucky winner of the Fabrica award at agIdeas
International Design Conference, Melbourne, Australia
A 2 week trial with Benetton Group Research Centre,
Fabrica in Italy. Hopefully to gain a full year scholarship.
2008 AGDA / Debaser
One of 4 students from Billy Blue College of Design,
selected to design the CD-cover for Sydney based ‘Gallucci’
and the design studio Debaser. The outcomes of the project
were exhibited as a part of AGDA ‘Every Picture Tells a Story’
2007 Ross Renwick Award for Major Project;
Environmental, Advertising and Publishing
Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts
2007 Blues Progress Award
For the student who consistently demonstrates creative ability.
Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts
2007 Colgate / Palmolive Packaging
One of the final ten in a Colgate Palmolive Packaging Competition
2003 Scholarship from The Swedish Graphic
Association as I graduated High School
Published in / Books / Magazines
2010 Design and Design, Book of the year, Index Book, Spain
2009 Self Promotion, Victio:nary, Hong kong
2009 Love Earth, Victio:nary, Hong kong
2009 The art of Invitation, Victio:nary, Hong kong
2009 1/2 Color, Maomao Publications, Barcelona
2009 Type Player, Sandu Publishing, China
2009 O2 Magazine, New Work Album, China
2009 Monarkh Magazine, online interview
2009 Buck Magazine, online interview, UK
2007 BBtween, Issue 1, Australia
Featured on / Blogs
FormFiftyFive
No legacy
Visuelle
Grafikcache
Aisle One
It's nice that
Dirty Mouse
Ian Claridge Blog
Seen by Family Blog
The Dieline
Australian INFront
N° 1 / EX-PAND /
Graduation / Exhibition Design
The biggest graduate exhibition in Billy Blue history needed to be big - literally. The Exhibition was about big ideas, expanding out from existing spaces and exploring new grounds. Ex- was used as a running theme throughout the design process and applied to the collateral material, such as Ex-panding, Ex-student Ex-hibiting and so on.
In collaboration with Felix Lobelius, Hampus Jageland, Robbie Powell & Malin Holmström
Identity / CD-Cover
The identity for the independent Punk band ‘Gallucci’ is designed on a roll of adhesive tape. The tape can be applied by the band themselves on anything from records, gig-posters and T-shirts, to microphones or any other instrument needed to be fixed. The title of the record, ‘You Wrecker’ communicates well to it’s audience since you have to ‘wreck’ the tape in order to open up the CD-Case, viewer then being the wrecker. The logotype symbolizes the band’s Italian heritage, greatly inspired by Italian vintage signs and typography.
Photography by Magdalena Czarnecki
Publication / Re–Design
A10 is an European magazine, focusing on strictly Architecture and the process within. The Magazine was re-designed in order to suit the creative target audience need’s and divided into 3 sections; ‘Start’, ‘&’, ‘Ready’, all having standard formats such as A3, A4 and A5, with a masthead being as big as an A10. Starting off with blueprints, prototypes and ideas, to then reach majestic finished buildings.
Student project. No commercial purposes.
Packaging
Empty paperbags, containing simple step by step instructions on how to fold the bag into an origami animal, in order to become a sustainable designer toy in paper. The cost of the bag is directed to the WWF to help save the endangered animal and it’s dying population.
Gardening Catalogue
A gardening catalogue, designed as a coffee table publication, aiming to bring back interest in native plants, and showcase the products in a honest, more real way. In order to teach and engage viewer, pages where you can press your own flowers were designed and the catalogue has the look and feel of a flora and fauna of modern time.
Student project. No commercial purposes.
Exhibition Design
There is a common prejudice that a blind person see what you see if you close your eyes – a constant darkness. That is not true, a blind person’s world is as vivid and colourful as ours. They imagine colours. Therefor, an orange could be blue and concrete pink. This exhibition is showcasing 12 blind photographers work. Photography led by imagination, sentiment and all four senses.
Photography by Magdalena Czarnecki
Packaging / Posters / T shirts for the Blind
Packaging for the blind, giving the visually impaired the freedom to choose themselves. Different sizes on tags and raised stickers are helping them to choose size, motive, and imagination. Shapes + is an invitation to discover a blind person’s reality that is both multi-sensory and surprising. The + being up to you – whatever you imagine.
Photography by Magdalena Czarnecki
Book Design / Wrapping Paper / Poster
This Book is a tribute to Herb Lubalin – one of the most influent graphic designers of the 20th century. Herb Lubalin, that did not like to call himself a typographer and thought that ‘typographics’ was a suitable word for what he did. He had a strong typographic style and this book, as well as the wrapping paper are designed to reflect his design language. The words are taken from an old article about Lubalin, showing different
Types of Graphics.
Experimental Publication Design
A metaphor for evolution and the circulation of the world, inspired by the mathematical satir ‘Flatland’ written in 1884 by Edwin Abbot Abbot. We live in a constant round, where everything builds up, from atoms – to material. The sequence starts with a circle, to then, step by step become an Icosahedron, and then a circle again. On the other side, the words ‘ending never ending never’ are written in pattern made out of the Icosahedron created in actual sequence.
DVD Packaging
Known as a fashion impresario and ‘it girl’, with over a dozen art house films to her credit, Chloë Sevigny also stands out as one of the most prominent queens of contemporary independent cinema. This is the DVD Collection where Chloë Sevigny is featuring in four independent movies.
Student project. No commercial purposes.
Printed Version / Online Magazine
Taxi is a magazine with the aim to connect persons from different cultures on a global scope. Prejudices are preconceived opinions that are not based on reason or actual experience. People who been on a long journey, often tend to arrive home more aware and with a large amount of understanding in their luggage. Taxi is like that journey, where we meet random people, and explore the creative cultural diversity of our world.
Stationary
Since the people working with Taxi Magazine is travelling and moving people, situated in different places around the world, the stationary needed to be usable in every situation and reflecting the diversity of Taxi. Therefor, it is designed as one simple sticker. Containing logotype and contact details, ready to apply on all kinds of papers, depending on taste and situation.
© 2008 Magdalena Czarnecki / All Rights Reserved / Design School & Personal Projects / Not for Commercial Use
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