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.

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). A false geometry and repetition was imposed on each composition for symbolic reasons.

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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.



Blog and identity design for the young, gritty film production company, I Screw Robots, based in Windsor, Ontario.



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



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.



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.









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.

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.



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.





A simple brochure designed to inform readers about the typographer William Caslon. A valuable exercise in restraint and propriety.



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.



Past Mapping is a pretentious yet chin-stroking experimental short mapping a neglected space by documenting lingering memories. Archival footage was manipulated, layered, and scored to evoke a sense of nostalgia.

A temporal graph referencing the iconic album cover of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, designed by Peter Saville. By using frequency spectrum analyzers, the volumes of each instrument in the song were mapped in even intervals. Complex data was presented in an appealing and simple way while simultaneously referencing cultural icons.