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Eye-catching illustrations reveal glorious nuances of Wrocław landmarks

Using a gold and deep navy blue colour palette, the results have proven fantastically compelling: clean and concise yet almost forensically detailed. Wrocławiaki

Using a gold and deep navy blue colour palette, the results have proven fantastically compelling: clean and concise yet almost forensically detailed.

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.

Warsaw illustrator’s delightful ‘Agent Fox’ becomes Icelandic hit

Coined by illustrator Weronika Lis, the adventures of her alter ego, Agent Fox, have become cult reading in the northern hemisphere following the publication of Agent Fox in Iceland, a comic book inspired by her two-years living in the country.

Otwock: A living museum, a town generously sprinkled with architectural gems and little hidden treasures

Set a stone’s throw south-east of Warsaw, Otwock is an oversight that demands to be corrected.

Incredible story of Polish children rescued by India’s Maharaja in WWII is turned into beautifully illustrated interactive documentary

Entitled ‘Fajna Ferajna w Indiach’ (Brave Bunch in India) and based on a true story, the film which premieres at Kraków Film Festival today follows the fate of 1,000 children deported to Siberia in 1940 and their eventual rescue after a surprising intervention from India.

Beautifully illustrated new book showcases 100 years of Polish fashion

Each chapter in ‘Reason and flair. A century of fashion in Poland’ explores a different decade in Poland’s fashion evolution up to the present day, with all its innovations and inspirations along the way.

Picture perfect: new exhibition explores the life and work and Jan Marcin Szancer, one of Poland’s greatest book illustrators

The exhibition also explores the artist’s life as a Jew in 20th-century Poland.

Rare book featuring 37 Picasso engravings to be put up for auction

The book Carmen, by Prosper Mérimée, which includes sketches signed by Picasso was gifted to his friend Stanisław Dawski, also a renowned artist.

Warsaw artist's gorgeous painting illustrates cover of new Nick Cave book

The work by Aleksandra Waliszewska, who is seen as being one of the brightest young talents on Poland's art scene, was chosen after Bad Seeds frontman Nick Cave fell in love with her style, even promoting her by publishing polaroids of her work.

New exhibition opens up on the life and work of “one-man army” artist Artur Szyk: the man who infuriated Hitler

The exhibition explores the life of the illustrator and political artist, whose career covered almost 50 turbulent years.

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Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

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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