Aleksandra Solińska New Media Arts Faculty
Biography : Since I was 7 years old I became interested in art. I started attending art classes, where I practiced various art techniques. As my interest in art was growing I decided to study Visual Arts at IB High School in Warsaw. At the same time, I developed my skills in other disciplines such as photography, sailing, and skiing. I began working as a ski instructor in a Ski Club called “Potwory�, which is one of the biggest clubs in Poland. Therefore I work with children during winter/ summer camps and sports activities, which take place on the weekends in Warsaw. I attended Polish - Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw as I wanted to extend my skills and knowledge in various areas of graphic design. I am most interested in interactive and social design and I hope to expand my knowledge in these fields in the future.
Link to the CV : file:///Users/Ola/Desktop/CV%20Alex%20Solinska.html
Table of contents : • drawing 3 - 5
• painting 6 - 7
• poster desing 8 - 9
• narrative design 10
• typeface design 11
• 3D modelling 12
• website design 13
• photography 14 - 16
Drawing | Aleksandra Solińska
“Men Pose” The aim of the drawing was to achieve good proportions of a male body sitting in a contrapose. pencil on paper 50 x 70 cm 2016
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Drawing | Aleksandra Solińska
“Mountains” In this drawing I was experimenting with pencils with different hardness. I wanted to achieve a deep contrast between the objects. pencil on paper 50 x 70 cm 2016
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Drawing | Aleksandra Solińska
“Higher Point if View” The aim of the work was to practice architectural drawing in perspective. The challenge was to keep drawing in perspective, measuring the heights and widths of every line.
pencil on paper 50 x 70 cm 2016
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Painting | Aleksandra Solińska
“The Great War” 1964 Copy of Rene Magritte
After precise studies of various famous art works I tried to copy them. I tried to use the same techniques and colours to make the copy most reliable.
acrylic paint on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2014
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Painting | Aleksandra Solińska
“Idylle (Le Depart)” 1931 Copy of Tamara de Lempicka The aim of the work was to learn how to paint in the way as one of my favourite artists did. Tamara de Lempicka was an extraordinary artists with a specific and beautiful style, which I tried to paint in.
acrylic paint on canvas 50 x 70 cm 2015
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Poster Design | Aleksandra Solińska
“ My Pussy My Business” During the social design international workshops with Ann Bessemans and Johan Vandebosch our task was to create a poster represeting the topic of ‘Indepedence’. My group designed a poster, which presents ‘woman independence’. Our aim was to create meanignful poster using simple graphics and colourful paper cutouts. The poster was choosen to be presented at a “100xIndependence” exhibition in the Poster Museum in Warsaw, which will take place in March 2018. computer graphics & paper cutouts A0 2017 2nd year od studies
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Poster Design | Aleksandra Solińska
“Racial Discrimination” My task was to think of a poster based on the given text - “Discrimination” described a social research made by Ryan Enos of Harvard. Experiment concerned intergroup contact, between various people which travelled by trains in rush hours in Boston. The idea was to be presented only with graphics - no captions. Therefore I tried to present the problem in simple and complex way, which viewers could easily understand and evaluate. computer graphics A3 2017 2nd year of studies
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Narrative Design | Aleksandra Solińska
“ Locomotive” by Jan Brzechwa The aim of the project was to design spreads for a poem “Locomotive” by Jan Brzechwa - Polish poet, who were the author of many poems for children. I came up with the idea of printing black & white old photographs of trains and than painting on them illustrations connected to the poem in order to make it more interesting for the children. Moreover I wrote the words of the poem as children write in primary school and digitalized them. Throughout the project I learned that book design is a complex and long process, where the designer is responsible for the whole visual presentation.
Link to the whole project below: https://indd.adobe.com/view/a1189f7a-7766-47f8a45b-5f57cdbcbb9f
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Typeface Design | Aleksandra Solińska
“Kosmos” Typeface and Screen printing During the scrin printing workshops students were ought to design a typeface based on single form from which we created letters and than whole typefaces. After we used them in the posters, which were later screen printed. My typeface “KOSMOS” was created from little triangles, which were placed in various combinations. Therefore it’s heavy and geometric. Later, as we worked in groups, our task was to join each of our posters - to create one for screen print. The structures visible in the poster are various letters from four different typefaces creating interesting forms.
niebo, kosmos, kimono, panorama
computer design screen printing 2017 2nd year of studies
zosia włoczewska, ola solińska, magda kłos, nikodem marek
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3D Modelling | Aleksandra Solińska
“Service Station Boat Project” During the course at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture in London I designed a service station boat, which aim is to service old or not well maintained boats on London’s Regent’s Canal. Students were suppose to design the area around the part of Regent’s Canal. Therefore gain information about the needs and reqirements in the area, as well as the measurements for the projects. Some of the parts of the project were designed in a computer and later cut in a laser mashine. Other were manufactured by wood or metal cutters. Generally the clients would swim their boats in the station - between the canal bank and the floating part of the station, which than adjusted to the width of the boat. 3D modelling scalled down structure 2016
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Website Design | Aleksandra Solińska
“JetSki” Website The aim of the project was to design a website of choice from scratch. As I’m a passionate skiier, I designed a website for online shop with freeride skies. The simple layout anables the users the find information easily. Moreover the interactive design and elegant black and white photographs makes it interesting and profesional. Adobe Muse 2018 2nd year of studies
Link to the whole website below: https://jetski02.businesscatalyst.com/index.html
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Photography | Aleksandra Solińska
“Diagonal” Suwalszczyzna, Poland 2015
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Photography | Aleksandra Solińska
“Horizontal” Algarve, Portugal 2017
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Photography | Aleksandra Solińska
“Vertical” Algarve, Portugal 2016
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Awards : The poster “My Pussy My Business” was chosen for the exhibition “100 X Independence”, which will take place in the Warsaw Poster Museum in March 2018.
Contact : e-mail : s16097@pjwstk.edu.pl phone number : +48534299833
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