Olga Kominek
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Olga Kominek

Graphic Designer / CreativeLondon, United Kingdom
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Olga Kominek

Graphic Designer / CreativeLondon, United Kingdom
About me
Graphic Designer currently based in London, Glasgow School of Art Graduate with BA(First) in Communication Design. With interest focused on typography and layout design for editorial, book design and other printed formats, my practice aims to deliver structured layout ideas, and manage large quantities of text and visual content in a way that refelcts the values and objectives of the project.
Projects
  • Turner Works Promotional Publications
    Turner Works Promotional PublicationsA collection of printed promotional materials designed for Architectural Practice Turner Works.
  • Tour de France 1903 – 2007
    Tour de France 1903 – 2007‘Tour de France 1903 – 2007’ explores the history of Tour de France through a hundred years of its existence. Being one of the biggest spectacles in the world, the Tour gathers millions of spectators every year. Consisting of 241 pages, the book shows the heritage and history of the Tour through archive photographs and extensive content. Race overviews, scandals and doping affairs of the period 1903–2007 are accompanied by a running column of contestants' names.
  • TDF Doping Booklet
    TDF Doping BookletSupporting Booklet, containing extensive information on the subject of doping in cycling.
  • Dance Theatre Spectacle Promotional Poster
    Dance Theatre Spectacle Promotional PosterThe task was to design a promotional poster for a dance theatre spectacle based on a libretto by Piotr Kotlarz, titled “Reject the masks of evil”. The spectacle is an antiwar allegory. The key moment in the spectacle occurs when a young man takes off his warrior mask and throws it into fire, by doing so he “rejects the masks of evil”. All others follow his action, however “a group of old men stand indifferent. […] They observe the masks with sadness in their eyes. The Evil has not gone foreve
  • Tractatus Logico – Philosophicus
    Tractatus Logico – PhilosophicusThe project is a graphic interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s influential work on language and communication. The way Wittgenstein’s work is written forms a system of declarative statements. By focusing on the structure of the text (use of decimal figures indicating the logical importance of each proposition), I produced a diagram in a form of a horizontal scroll,mapping all the numbers of the propositions. It was later used as a guide to design a layout system for a book – each decimal is
  • The Interview
    The InterviewInterview is a printed, typographically detailed transcript of Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which the cyclist admits to doping throughout his career. Despite many doping scandals in the Tour de France history, Lance Armstrong became the face of them all. His epic fall is not only a story about doping, but also about money and abuse of power. It brings to mind a narrative of a fallen hero.
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Work history
    Penguin Random House UK logo
    Penguin Random House UK logo
    Junior Graphic DesignerPenguin Random House UK
    London, United KingdomFull Time
    Penguin Random House UK logo
    Penguin Random House UK logo
    Temp Junior Graphic DesignerPenguin Random House UK
     - London, United KingdomFull Time
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Skills
  • Book Design and Layouts
  • Editorial Design
  • Conceptual and Creative Thinking
  • Adobe Indesign Photoshop
  • Typography
  • Visual Identity
  • Print Design
  • Team Collaboration
  • Communication Design
  • Communication
Education
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    Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Communication DesignGlasgow Schoold of Art / The University of Glasgow
     - Glasgow, United Kingdom
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    HND Graphic DesignEdinburgh College
     - Edinburgh, United Kingdom