Maciej Rakowski
http://www.k4lab.info Biography
Born 1987 in small town Czestochowa. All my life I'm in touch with art because my father is a painter. When I was 13 I started my art education in local fine arts school. There I first touched Photoshop then when I was 18 I saw a full-flash site, it was a Shane
Mielke portfolio and I decided that I want to make graphic design and motion.
Now I'm a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz on graphic design profile and I try to touch everything what is connected with graphic design.
Where do you work? What do you do there?
Actually I'm a freelancer and a student.
How long have you been in this field?
For about 2 or 3 years / professionally for one year.
What role did (are) you play(ing) in the project?
Creator and owner.
What was (is) your inspiration for this project?
Main idea was to make some new vision of meaning what is "laboratory", tried to make it more as a creative garden.
What is in your equipment/gear setup?
HP notebook with 1GB of ram.
What are some websites you visit daily?
For sure google :) But seriously I generally make websurfing so every day I find something new. Regularly I only visit some graphic design forums and sites like:
http://deviantart.com
http://www.digart.pl
http://www.sxc.hu
Who's work do you most enjoy?
I've got a lot of favorite artists but from child I love works of Wojciech Siudmak or Gil Bruvel, generally I like surrealism. Actually I'm digging works of James Jean and from classic graphic design - Paul Rand.
What advice can you share to people just getting into this field?
No pain no gain.
1. On the beginning look on works of other and learn from them then try to make something yours.
2. Remember that most difficult is a first step.
3. Work a lot.
4. Remember to save work every 5 minutes :)
Any other comments?
Let the design be with you.
A few links that inspired
K4Laboratory:
