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I have met Marek once in Bieszczady’s mountains (btw it’s a very beautiful place to go for summer holidays). I was a young (younger than now) kid those days. He gave me his business card with web address mielnickidesign.com. After a few years by chance I have stumbled upon his website again and got excited about the amount of interesting projects Marek was involved with since our meeting. I am sure that Marek does not remember me and I also don’t remember him much. It’s the coincidence I’ve found his website after those few years and that’s why I’ve decided to promote his works on my blog. Obviously, those are the works that are really worth checking out.

Marek is in both illustration and web/Flash design. He was involved in some projects like shirtee.com or tiszert.com both as a web designer and designer of t-shirts. I think that he is the founder of shirtee but I might be wrong about it. It’s sad but it looks like both of those T-shirt projects either have died out or are put on hold.

Shirtee.com- T-shirt shop founded (most probably) by Marek Mielnicki

Tiszert.com- Mielnicki designed website of this T-shirt shop

What I definitely like most about works of Marek are the Flash websites. It’s about the combination of minimalism and care for details. I know that such a sentence sounds strange (minimalism and details- o rly?) but that’s how it is and how I can describe it. My English is not perfect and sometimes I am getting to the point where it’s really hard for me to say the thing precisely and exactly- I am sorry about that. Anyway, take a look at those two websites below (click on the link or on the image to visit the site).

Tank Production – Flash web site

Portfolio of video artist Sebastian Panczyk

If you got interested by what I presented in this post take a look at Mielnicki’s portfolio- you will find more of it there.

The idea of designgive.com is simple. Designers donate a T-shirt design and in this way promote themselves. People who buy the T-shirts select charity organization that they would like to support. Money goes for the good cause and everybody is happy.

And moreover, some of the T-shirts that you can (or could if they were in stock) buy are just awesome. And the names of some of the designers are really big: Si Scott, Brooke Nunez, Paul Macgregor.

I need to put some limits on number of pictures uploaded to my server (the daily traffic on Blastyle blog is really impressive nowadays). So that’s why I selected only 5 T-shirts to be presented; take a look:

Si Scott – Leash Called Love

Scott Bartlett – Octobunny

Maciej Rakowski – Industrial Re-pollution

Daniel van Beek – Fig. 53

Andhika Nugraha – God

Born in Russia, Yulia Brodskaya started her career in Moscow, “producing contemporary office decoration artwork” for the companies there. Meantime she was studying Graphic Design. After she made M.A. in Graphic Communication in London she works now both as an illustrator and freelance graphic designer.

Her clients include RedBull, Orange, BBH, How2 T-shirts. She won some design prizes- 1st prize in Russian Conceptual Packaging Design Competition, she was also a Member of the International Society of Typographic Designers in 2006.

She makes original works which she calls “papergraphic”. Take a look at them below:

And here are some other works by Yulia. I like especially the work on the bottom- sign “They want you” made of big corporation’s logos. Brilliant idea!