Jakub Tywoniuk is a Canadian Graphic Designer concerned with creating concept-driven work that is sophisticated yet bizarre, expressive yet restrained. He hopes to communicate meaningful messages rather than simply help sell products. jakubt88@gmail.com.


Rejected design concepts for a 2014 Save the Children calendar.

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Worldvision required branding and signage for an installation of an African village in West Edmonton mall. Due to the lack of photo resources and a tight timeline, I created these simple silhouettes which still manage to have emotional appeal. The look was incorporated into several enormous banners, hanging posters, and tickets.

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Title credit design and a faux polish film poster for a short film, ‘Golem’ by Dominik Marciniec.

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Logo design for a Canadian video production company, I Screw Robots. They asked for something clean and geometric.

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A seven page booklet for the new Rotten Tropics album ‘First Blind Quarter’. The goal was for the artwork to be iconic and alienating, while still emotional (much like the music). The geometric shapes suggest deconstructed divisions, alluding to the album title.

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A poster for a concert in Toronto, Ontario. The tight deadline and lack of brief resulted in an end product that is simple yet arresting.

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A logo for an interdisciplinary artist foundation in Warsaw, Poland. Designed under the supervision of Edgar Bąk.

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A logo and an unused variation for a Polish radio program which loosely translates to ‘Culture in the Big City’. Designed under the supervision of Edgar Bąk.

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Album artwork and music video for a free digital album.

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A cover for Lodacal (Lake of Mud), an international comic anthology. These comics are independent and usually have a raw aesthetic. I decided that it would be fun to hint at this by defacing the template of vintage mainstream comic covers.

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My thesis project entitled Piles of Concrete, Miles of Metal: Architectural Typography and Post-Punk Design. You can read the proposal and process documentation on the blog Lose Some Sleep And Say You Tried. Best viewed wearing really cool sunglasses.

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Introduction for an proposed television show that would air from 2am to 4am and culture jam content played earlier that day, with an anti-celebrity and anti-consumerist slant. Heavily influenced by the method of détournement and the writings of Guy Debord.

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Type in motion movie based on a story combining three memories: A visit to Centralia, Pennsylvania, seeing a particularly intense concert by the band Swans, and getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Photoshop and After Effects.

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Tensor is a magazine dealing with experimental foreign cinema. The goal was for the magazine to reflect the tension and horror that some of these films portray. By combining the freedom of punk zines and the refinement of fashion magazines, a provocative and appropriate solution was produced.

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Page 2 of a 16 page self-published comic titled Cathedrals. The printed version was 11 x 14 inches. Read it here.