6 - 15 july 2018

Jacek Wielebski

speaker

Graphic designer, painter, NGO activist, curator, graduate from the Graphic Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, diploma in 2012 in the studio of Jacek Staniszewski. Since the late 90s, he has been actively involved in the graffiti and street art scene. In 2010, together with his friends, designers, architects and people involved in urban space, he founded the Traffic Design Association, with which he created the Gdynia city art festival. From 2013, together with other NGOs, he founded tuBaza - a place which hosts a number of workshops, meetings, shows and exhibitions, most often dealing with public space. Recently, his interest goes towards the design of signboards, metalwork, neon, gates, fences and other elements of public space, most often where typography and graphics intersect with architecture.