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Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She runs the Design for Culture studio together with Joanna Czaplewska. She is a graphic designer who specializes in designing for cultural institutions. She creates visual identities and designs exhibitions, books, and catalogues. Her publications have won numerous awards and honourable mentions in competitions such as The Most Beautiful Book of the Year and Museum Book of the Year, while her exhibition designs have won awards in competitions including Project of the Year, the Polish Graphic Design Award, the Visible Museum award, the ‘Sybilla’ award for the best museum event of the year, and the Good Design award. She is also a researcher specializing in the visual language of advertisement painting in West African countries. She has published two books summarizing her research in the Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe and Guinea-Bissau with Piotr Stańczyk: Bom dia São Tomé (2017) and Bom dia Bissau (2021). She has received grants from the City of Gdańsk (Mobility Fund, 2019; Cultural Grant, 2022 and 2025) and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2011). Since 2020, she has been creating artistic textiles in her spare time. This has resulted in group exhibitions and two solo exhibitions: Horyzont – Horizon (Horizon) at the ESKAEM Gallery in 2022 and Meandry – Meanders (Meanders) at the El Gallery in 2023. www.instagram.com/anitawasik/

pic. Magdalena Czajka-Cardoso