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Heritage artist gives new lease of life to abandoned countryside installations

Demanding a significant amount of application skill, Arkadiusz Andrejkow’s seasonal works have a gently haunting quality to them, featuring weathered faces and piercing eyes gazing forth from the frozen winter landscape. Arkadiusz Andrejkow

Demanding a significant amount of application skill, Arkadiusz Andrejkow’s seasonal works have a gently haunting quality to them, featuring weathered faces and piercing eyes gazing forth from the frozen winter landscape.

Obscure Warsaw mural reveals extraordinary tale of heroism – and King Kong!

Webber's World: In one of Warsaw’s fringe districts to the city’s far east, plastered on the side of a municipal building I found a mural depicting a bi-plane swooshing over a cavalry unit beneath….

Barnstorming: the artist who brings the past back to life on the side of barns in stunning murals

Arkadiusz Andrejkow pays homage to the people who once worked the land in a series of breath-taking paintings on the side of old farm buildings.

She’s the face behind some of the biggest brand campaigns going, but who is Olka Osadzińska?

TFN’s Alex Webber caught up with Olka to find out how she went from medical school dropout to becoming one of Poland’s leading creative exports with a client-base that reads like a who’s who of contemporary brands.

WWII hero’s ‘final wish’ honoured with giant mural in his name

Occupying 210 square metres and the entire wall of a building in Warsaw’s Ochota district, the design by historical mural painter Rafał Roskowiński is based on two archival photographs of celebrated Warsaw Uprising veteran Professor Witold Kieżun.

Warsaw’s ‘King of the murals’ is back, this time with a huge smog-friendly tribute to Wola

Rich in detail and visually arresting, Tytus Brzozowski’s 375sq/m mural covering a WHOLE BUILDING was painted almost entirely with anti-smog paints and purposefully created to neutralize nitrogen oxides and other pollutants. As with his previous large format projects, the mural is a dreamlike tribute to the surrounding area, with several iconic buildings presented from the past and the present.

From a gold-winning triple-jumper dubbed the Silesian Kangaroo through to a gold-smuggling discuss thrower in WWII, a new mural pays homage to 100 years of sporting legends

The medley of household names include gold-winning pole-vaulter Władysław Kozakiewicz whose celebratory ‘up yours’ gesture towards the Russian crowd scandalized the 1980 Moscow Olympics and world-record discus thrower Halina Konopacka who during WWII squirrelled Poland’s gold reserve to France.

Stunning mural honours Kraków’s most renowned street musician

VIDEO: Nearly two decades after Stefan Dymiter’s death, artist Arkadiusz Andrejkow has celebrated the musician’s legacy by reviving a decrepit bus stop in the place of Dymiter’s birth.

World’s largest ‘The Witcher’ mural to become latest wall art to grace the face of Łódź

Covering 26-floors, spanning an area of 2,000 sq/m, and reaching 78-metres in height, the work in the heart of the city on the side of a residential complex commonly known as Manhattan, will feature Geralt of Rivia as its principal character.

Kraków’s central station renamed Józef Piłsudski

President of Polish State Railways, Krzysztof Mamiński said: “This is an important ceremony for Polish State Railways, for Kraków and for Poland.”

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The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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