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OP Objects - Seeing Experiences

OP objects exploring the world of optical phenomena was exhibited at the Vzory Gallery in Poznań.

We created the OP objects to reveal the extraordinary relationship between color and light. They are a tribute to color and its ability to surprise, transform, and delight. We also wanted both literally and metaphorically to shed light on the material beauty of ceramics, a medium that has captured our professional lives.

REGENERATION / Polish Presidency of the EU Council

From January to June 2025, audiences in over twenty EU and accession countries took part in concerts, exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and discussions. Polish culture became a platform for dialogue, bringing together diverse communities.

We are honoured to have contributed to this celebration of unity and diversity.

TRANSFORMATIONS / The National Museum in Krakow

The massive exhibition TRANSFORMATIONS at The National Museum in Krakow showcases the changes occurring in Polish art, design, and architecture from the titular transformation period after 1989 up to the present day. The exhibition highlights the diversity of creative approaches and reinterpretations of modernity, which do not form a unified image but rather a dynamic polyphony.
It is an extraordinary feeling to be part of this fascinating process. Thank you to the curators for recognizing our work as significant.

POLA collection / Warsaw exhibition

POLA (Eng: FIELDS)

The exhibition features over a dozen works by Magda Jurek from her latest collection POLA/FIELDS. Inspired by the monumental ceramic art of the modernist era and the formal experiments of op art, it is a series of ceramic compositions similar in form to paintings. The artist and designer, known to the public as Pani Jurek, develops her colour-based visual language through the medium of ceramics.

We are pleased to be a part of "Animism". Adorno exhibition of contemporary design and crafts taking place at Alcova Milan in a grand room of the historical Villa Bagatti Valsecchi in conjunction with Millano Design Week. The exhibition will investigate the deeper meaning of objects, through the lens of Animism.

LOOKING THROUGH OBJECTS / Design Museum Brussels

“Looking Through Objects: Women in Contemporary Polish Design” at Design Museum Brussels.

This exhibition highlights 16 visionary Polish women designers, ranging from product designers to craft artists, and reveals how their works blend art, craft, and technology in stunning ways. Each object on display tells a story – reflecting personal inspiration and big-picture social changes.

We are honored to have been part of this project.

TRN Configuration

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"CONFIGURATION” was an exhibition organized as part of the MAZDA DESIGN ICONS series - the first public presentation of TRN collection, awarded with the Mazda Design Award 2020.

The 19th-century wooden villa in Lodz, part of the Central Museum of Textile, inaugurated its opening in September 2022 with the "Checkered" exhibition. The starting point for the exhibition was the checkered workers shawl once worn by women in the factories. Now it has become a source of inspiration for art works and installations by contemporary artists and designers.

We are all collages at BWA - Municipal Art Gallery of Bydgoszcz presents what has happened in the last two years with Psikusy project. At the exhibition, you can see effects of numerous workshops, animations, documentations of activities.

Unpointers, unpoodles, untartan unsheperds and all other mongrels from, PSIKUSY book and blocks at the first solo exhibition at Design Institute in Kielce. The exhibition was accompanied by workshops and charity auction for dog shelter in Dyminy.

Bioluminescence is a living organisms’ ability to emit light without heat production. Among the glowing species, up to 80% live in water. In search for alternative sources of energy and reducing heat emission, the Holy Grail of energy turns out to lie in the oceans.

"What do I feel with my cheek, with my knee or with my hand? What does the cup look like, see with my knee? I am trying to figure that out. I am remembering it, using my knee, rub the smooth, cold surface, feeling the protuberance, and the hole. it is sharp on the edge. Then, using my memory and the eyes, I try to shape it. I am looking at this and I do not recognize it."

This multifunctional board can be used as a wall clock shield, a cutting/cheese board or simply hung on the wall as a decorative piece, the way the original Hucul plates were used. The starting point to design this project was a reflection on the old rhythm of human life, measured not by hours or minutes, but by the sun phases and human work. The visual inspiration was taken from a sunflower – a popular crop in Ukraine, considered as a solar plant.

Bioluminescence is a living organisms’ ability to emit light. It has inspired Pani Jurek to create eco lamps. Together with Stanisław Łoboziak, a biologist designer created a lighting fixture that can emit light without the necessity of supplying them with electricity. In nature, bioluminescent diatoms can be observed, when waves full of diatoms hit the shore and the water flares blue magical light. Diatoms do not emit light during the day, it occurs only during the night and when they are in motion.

The 4 popular games: Battleship, Hussars, Memory and Horizon Circle have been modified according to universal design, to be usable for children with impaired vision. Tactile qualities and contrasts have been emphasized. The toys are made of elements which are easily accessible.

Illustrations and key visuals for the project "Their City" organized by the Academy of Dzika Ochota and the Management of the Municipal Greenspace Authority in Warsaw. It was a series of walks and tours aimed at learning about the inhabitants (mainly birds and insects) of Warsaw's parks and green spaces.

Exhibition BASE in CK Zamek in Poznan. Our tents were designed with kids. The walls are covered with children’s thoughts about what the home is or should be.

"Adopt Varsovian" is an annual charity event organized by the "Na Paluchu" dog shelter. We took part in it by organizing a workshop for children. The children's task was to make a portrait of a dog, one of the stray dogs living in the shelter. The children used the covers of our Psikusy books.

In the first months since the launching of the PSIKUSY Books, we have done a dozen workshops for children and adults in Poland, South Korea, Japan and England, promoting the beauty of non-breed dogs, and as a result interest in the problem of stray dogs and popularizing their adoption.

Wood waste toys. Sometimes when it is raining or when my daughter is bored, we make wood waste toys. Each piece tells us what it wants to be in the future. This way, we have managed to gather such a gang. We have also workshops with preschoolers using wooden offcuts

The idea for the postcards was born in Krakow, where we conducted workshops for architecture students through lectures on the theory of vision and spatial orientation, where we learned the perception of different types of visually impaired people.

How is it possible to make kids sensitive to well designed space? The answer can be found in a new product by Pani Jurek. She selected her favorite items from the history of modern design, embroidered their shapes on the tablecloth and „arranged” the interior under the table.

KOLO- cylindrical lighting objects that change light intensity with touch. A new lighting set is created by Polish designer Pani Jurek together with architect Piotr Musialowski. Through tactile play with the object, two lamps – KOLO Magnet and KOLO Sand – feature adjustable light intensity to meetthe needs and moods of its user.

The “PSIKUSY. Remix your dog” is a concept about how the mixed breed dogs arise, about dog personalities, the shapes and colors galore, that only nature can create. The concept and graphic design is created by Pani Jurek and Małgorzata Gurowska, Dorota Masłowska wrote a witty statement which is the praise of mongrelism and diversity.

The Plika Light is made from a bunch of coloured fibers mounted in white ceramic elements. The form evokes Rasta dreadlocks but the name suggests an inspiration derived from Plica Polonica (Polish Plait), an old Polish superstition.

Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego pochodzących z Funduszu Promocji Kultury - państwowego funduszu celowego.

OP Objects - Seeing Experiences

REGENERATION / Polish Presidency of the EU Council

TRANSFORMATIONS / The National Museum in Krakow

POLA collection / Warsaw exhibition

Animism exhibition at Alcova Milan

LOOKING THROUGH OBJECTS / Design Museum Brussels

TRN Configuration

Intersections

We are all collages

Psikusy / Kielce

Jellyfishes

Blind fields

Seed boards

Living lamps

Toys for kids with impaired vision

Their City - Dzika Ochota

Base

Jungle

Psikusy workshops

Adopt Varsiovian

Jurki

Views from...

Designer Mama

KOLO

Psikusy blocks

Plika