Makroskop. How to Look at Technologies?

book
illustration
collaboration

A book from Fundacja Grupa Robocza is built around 42 concepts and illustrations for understanding the digital world on your own terms. Through text and images the book traces how selected technologies and digital phenomena connect to culture, economy, environment, and society, using visual metaphors, to carry tensions and meanings that resist simple definitions.

concept + art direction + illustration: Maja Starakiewicz / book design: Łukasz Podolak, Dawid Prząda

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Solar Vampires

illustration
collaboration
world-building
Solar Vampires grew out of a series of figures painted in acrylic on wood, which "demanded" names and stories. The resulting cast of creatures (Zizko, Stan, Ördög, Empusa, Giuseppina) mixes fungal imagery, neon color, and dark humor with an undercurrent of climate anxiety and AI overload. The project takes the form of an ephemeral website, using short texts and verse to build a world of oddly likable beings.

txt: Magda Starakiewicz / illustration + web: Maja Starakiewicz

Solar Vampires digital zine

Eden Pop’Up. Secrets and symbols

zine
illustration
collaboration
This small zine, printed using the riso technology, was created as a publication summarizing the Eden Pop'Up conference in Tarnów. Inside, you'll find the Manifesto of Manifestos, instructions for making a luxurious AI gnome, as well as drawings and diagrams. 

art direction + design: Maja Starakiewicz / Dawid Prząda / txt: Katarzyna Janota / Aga Zgud / Katarzyna Drożdżal

Museum of Future(s)

illustration
speculative fiction
A series of illustrations was commissioned by the FRSK Foundation as a visual take on a speculative vision authored by Kuba Szreder about the future of museums. It tells of a post-artistic, carnival-like vision of Venice, which becomes a space for regeneration, care, and co-creation.

Pomuzeum.pl

Upside Downs


illustration
 Set of illustrations was inspired by my stay in Marseille, France (thanks to Culture Moves Europe scholarship granted by UE) and phenomenon of kaijū. All drawings reveal different character when turned upside down. Series was presented at M.A.D. exhibition curated by iconic publishing collective Le Dernier Cri at Marseille. 

M.A.D. (Model Autophagy Disorder) exhibition

Intestinal Whispers


typography
exhibition
print
collaboration
 A two-year experimental typography project created in collaboration with Paweł Krzywdziak. What began as conversations about the typographic potential of my abstract drawings gradually evolved into sketches of individual glyphs, and eventually into increasingly weird, post-typographic forms — including prototypes of 3d-printed collectible figurines. The exhibition at Traffic Design (Gdynia) showcased the results of this process. A specimen zine was published to accompany the show.

Entomofloral Garden


3D
animation
illustration
scent
collaboration
 Work-in-progress worldbuilding project  includes illustration, 3D animation and prints, scents and text. The story presents a post-human world cared for by the Spider Mother, a powerful but protective goddess. The submerged plants form her beloved garden, a place full of nooks and shelters for all lost beings.

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 3D + animation: Grzegorz Kwiek, Maja Starakiewicz / music: Kamil Kukla / txt: Katarzyna Janota / photo: Kado Żurek

Tongues of Fog


jewellery design
branding
illustration
collaboration
The 'Shakespeare meets dark fantasy' jewellery drop was an attempt to incorporate storytelling into product design. Any Dark Souls fans here?

art direction: Maja Starakiewicz, Marcin Mleczak
wax carving, production: Mikołaj Piechota
graphic design + motion: Maja Starakiewicz
madneeco.pl

Extinction Internet

web design
book design
collaboration
 The Working Group's first-ever printed publication is a manifesto by the renowned technology theorist Geert Lovink. Alongside the booklet, a website has also been launched, where the text is, ahem, subject to extinction.

art direction + design: Maja Starakiewicz + Dawid Prząda / webdesign: Cezary Stępkowski + Maja Starakiewicz
wymieranie.mvu.pl

Workwear


art direction
illustration
collaboration
Workwear is a collection of streetwear clothes and at the same time an essay on the post-work. The clothes were produced in Poland in a small batch.

odzież.robocza.org
art direction: Dawid Prząda + Maja Starakiewicz / motion: Łukasz Podolak / copy+ operations: Katarzyna Janota, Kuba Kulesza, Piotrek Dziadowicz / foto: Kasia Klebert