A quality of Poland’s public education is that it has typically maintained its design schools within the scope of its art academies. However, over time these schools have nurtured and developed a variety of specialisations in industrial product design, with investments in the expansion of workshops and laboratories – such as the professional glass and ceramic furnaces at the academy in Wrocław, or the fashion runway at the academy in Łódź, an important centre for textiles. The academy in Katowice, meanwhile, focuses on graphic design and animation, since this was ground zero for the tradition of high-quality animated film that has won success in Eastern Europe and beyond.
3–9 April 2017
Polish Design
curated by Dorota Koziara
Superstudio Più
via Tortona, 27 Milan