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