2015/2016 Graphic Design Fellow. Gabriela Baka is Polish born graphic designer who, had studied in Netherlands: 2014 MA Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands / 2012 BA Cross-media Design ArtEZ Institute Netherlands / Graphic Design at Fine Art Academy Krakow, Poland / Besides establishing her own practice, she worked for Dutch publisher and gallery space Onomatopee and design studio: Mainstudio.
Gabriela Baka
Counter Currents: Thomas Lommée on Modular Systems
Being rooted in a context that offered easy access to both hallucinogens as well as pioneering new technologies, the works of the more “action-oriented” hippies produced perceptions, insights, and methodologies that have been guiding me in my daily practice as a designer ever since I’ve discovered them during my studies at the IwB (Institute without Boundaries) in Toronto, now almost a decade ago.
Counter Currents: Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUST) on Marshall McLuhan
In front of the Eiffel Tower the main attraction of the 1900 world’s fair in Paris was the Palais de l’Electricité. Lit with thousands of electrical lights, it presented electricity to a large consumer market and a new era took off. In the century to come, a form of energy nobody quite expected made mankind’s ideas of the ultimate extension of the human faculty lift off in record time.