Malwina Chabocka – Art & Design
Malwina Chabocka – Art & Design

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A collection of posts and essays from my blog covering contemporary culture, art history, exhibition reviews, film & animation, graphic design, advice for artists and philosophical musings. For articles on painting background, theory and techniques, please visit my other blog.

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  1. My 1st year of motherhood: expecting the unexpected
  2. Magical colours of Japan 2: Yashio Hihokan & pink fantasies ピンク
  3. Magical colours of Japan 1: Tokyo's secrets & dark nooks 黒
  4. New York State of Mind Part 2: Islands, Brooklyn & black magic
  5. New York State of Mind Part 1: No Sleep Till Brooklyn
  6. Luxembourg: the alluring myth of Melusina & the reality of rest
  7. California Dreamin' and American ways. Travel musings in 10 chapters - Part II
  8. California Dreamin' and American ways. Travel musings in 10 chapters - Part I
  9. One year in the Netherlands
  10. Punk in a cardie
  11. Slowly typed words on 5G & time pressure
  12. The golden ball of courage
  13. If the world is ending in 30 years
  14. The Imperfect Notebook (or my first "Meditations")
  15. What Type of Artist Are You? Non-quiz
  16. One year in Portugal
  17. Lisboetas (Part I): Fascinating Female Artists from Lisbon
  18. A Studio of One's Own
  19. Animated music videos for when you need a good cry
  20. The Problem with Photoshop, CGI and Insta-Lies
  21. No sugar and all spice. Be the fearless & feisty 5-year old you once were.
  22. Home: Dream, nightmare & utopia
  23. The Fall of the House of Usher cover design
  24. Women, love, relationships in selected animations
  25. Waiting for the marshmallows: on patience & delayed gratification
  26. Cats, ravens & madmen. Edgar Allan Poe in animation.
  27. Blissful uncoolness & comfortable solitude. A weekend in Berlin.
  28. Dark strangelands in music videos
  29. Neons. On preserving the endangered type.
  30. Women, art & obscurity. Seers, Knights, Lassnig.
  31. Art meets facts. Animation in documentary films
  32. Retro dreams in retro animation
  33. Against the tide. Element Talks conference afterthoughts
  34. 3 logos I like: Geek Girls Carrots, Moderat, Jadłonomia
  35. The art & science of kissing
  36. Game & graphic wonders of Alice in Wonderland exhibition
  37. Lot in Sodom cover design
  38. 3 logos I like: Krayewski, Mariage Frères, Disconnect
  39. Polish poster just after the war
  40. The remarkable effects of praise & criticism
  41. "Direction Courtesy" campaign ads
  42. Women in Chanel N°5 film ads
  43. New website & the icon challenge
  44. Faith, delusions & Woody Allen
  45. Left, right and wrong: political labels & biases
  46. The art of competing and losing in Settlers of Catan & everyday life
  47. Unlikely homes: Jing Jin City & Miracle Village
  48. Beautiful obsession of 4 Indie Game Designers
  49. In search of La Dolce Vita: Breaking with the nine-to-five
  50. Black Dogs, Storms & Rhapsodies
  51. Jean Paul Gaultier & different kinds of beauty
  52. Man and Machine
  53. Making colours & "noncolours"
  54. Creative DNA: Deconstruction/Reconstruction
  55. Sex fantasies in comics
  56. Dear Modern Diary. E-journals & life-logging.
  57. The Good Fight
  58. Avant-garde animation from artist/composer duos
  59. Is the grass greener across the English Channel?
  60. A Paean to Green
  61. Recharging in the comfort zone
  62. Painting with scissors: Matisse at the Tate
  63. Storytelling in life, art & business
  64. Imperfections in art & wabi-sabi
  65. Nine warriors of art who conquered their age
  66. Facebook: no space for failure
  67. Ruin Lust or Ruin Lost Opportunity
  68. Solitude, routine & art
  69. Show & Tell [Part #2]
  70. The art of collage: paper & scissors rock!
  71. Artwives: Eva Švankmajerová, Dorothea Tanning & Lee Krasner
  72. Strange Little Girls
  73. Me, Myself & I. Self-portraits.
  74. Show & Tell [Part #1]
  75. Magic in the gutter. A few words on comics and sequential art.
  76. In awe of flesh & bone
  77. Beauty & terror
  78. The Art of Tidying Up
  79. Feline fetishists
  80. Departing from a safe zone
  81. The love & hate of portraits in Vienna 1900
  82. The art of storyboarding
  83. What I like in animation
  84. Painting sex & pleasure in Japan and beyond
  85. Overheads Under Your Heel
  86. Edward Gorey & Other Daring Gor(e)y Stories
  87. USP: Unnecessarily Strained Procedure?
  88. Who is an artist?
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