Kotowska Studio

15/05/2018

Marble Instagram Story Highlights IN STORE NOW! �

14/05/2018

👉 Working on a new project - the logo is coming together 😍 What do you think of this one? It's going to be a feminine jewelry brand based around the word KAJO which means GLOW! 🔅

12/05/2018

Hologram insta story highlights IN STORE! 🙌🏻 Follow link in bio to get this set and start designing an insta feed of your dreams! 🔝

12/05/2018

Do you use and tool? Covers for your highlights will grab your audiences attention and make your account look professional and stylish! 👌🏻

I’ve designed this icon pack for ▫️

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Go to my store (link in bio 👆🏻) to get your icon set!

10/05/2018

Instagram highlight are a great tool that’ll make your account eye catching 😎 Do you use them? If not - you definitely should! ☺️

I designed 5 different packs for you to choose from - one of them is this gorgeous nude-colour pack that will go perfect with a lifestyle, fashion or parenting account! 🙌🏻Follow the link and go straight to the store! 👍🏻https://www.etsy.com/listing/609257929/instagram-covers-instagram-story?ref=shop_home_feat_2

20/01/2018

⭐️ It's been an awesome year! ⭐️
.. and these are just some of the logos I've designed in the past months! 😍

2017 was all about 34 different projects, a dozen new clients, hand-crafted Studio's website (👉 http://www.kotowskastudio.com) and keeping the business running! Very happy, proud and full of energy for 2018!

Thanks for the support and kind words when times were tough! And for the cheer when it was all great and easy!

12/01/2018

⭐️ New amazing project is live! ⭐️

Michalina, a very talented and inspiring young entreprenuer has just brought Michalina Bachta Mentoring to life! We worked together on creating brand identity, business cards and a website for her.

It was truly a pleasure working for such a passionate and energetic client! 👌 Check out the project and show some love! 💕

http://www.kotowskastudio.com/portfolio/mbmentoring/

23/12/2017

❄️ Simply, Merry Christmas! ❄️

18/12/2017

❄️❄️❄️ Let it snow! ❄️❄️❄️

Fingers crossed for a beautiful Christmas this year!

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DWSZJ83y4ocXM

13/12/2017

🙌 Hi5 to all designers out there working their way through programming!

Are you already getting in the Christmas mood? 🎄 If not, than no pressure, but you probably should 😎

23/11/2017

Don't let the minimalism-madness blur your vision! Less is more only when 'more' wants to kills the project! ❌

21/11/2017

💛 Hello small business owners! 💛

This one is to you - to us - and to our bright visions! This one is to our energy and our ideas! To our persistance and our gut feeling that we're gonna make it, no matter what! To our client-focused approach and to the fact we care about relationships so much! To answering e-mails at 1am, to converting clients to friends (and friends into clients sometimes...).

CHEERS TO US! 🥂

20/11/2017

🔅 Monday inspiration! 🔅

https://www.lavendaire.com/lifestyle-47/

Lavendaire again - one of my favourite podcasts brings joy and inspiration even on the gloomiest Finnish Monday morning!
Aileen, has interviewed Jason Zook, the iWearYourShirt guy. They talk about entrepreneurship in such a charming way!

Need a bit of a Monday kick? ✨ Tune in and get inspired!

14/11/2017

Design as thinking💡 made Visual 👀?

YES! For me that's the essence of the process - thinking first, visuals next. I always begin with a brainstorm and generating ideas - no matter if I'm working on a brand or formatting a presentation. Most of the time visuals come naturally, almost simultanously with the ideas.

How does it work for you, fellow designers?

10/11/2017

🙌 Hi5 to all designers out there working their way through programming 🙃

08/11/2017

🌴 Kotowska Studio is going for a vacay! 🌴

Have you seen this amazing short animation?
It's visualized in such a charming way! Among all different meanings behind it, it tells a little travel-story which is very similar to what I'm going to experience into in just 3 weeks...

Please note that from now on any new projects will be queued for mid-December! ❄️ ⛄️

https://vimeo.com/239414688

2037. What a great year. It was the year when I travelled to Southeast Asia and I experienced things I will never forget. Luckily, postcards will be always there…

06/11/2017

🔅 Monday inspiration! 🔅

https://www.lavendaire.com/lifestyle-56/

Lavendaire is one of my favourite podcasts and the wonderful host, Aileen, has recently interviewed my other hero - Melyssa Griffin. They talk about making business meaningful and finding pleasure&purpose in everyday life.

Need a bit of a Monday kick? ✨ Tune in and get inspired!

03/11/2017

🔆 Oh that's a nice quote, isn't it?

I've never truly understood the meaning of it until I moved to Finland and started my Master's degree here. Aalto University is a place where art and science break even every day, on every corner, in each and every conversation.

There are drawing workshops 🎨 side by side with crazy Arudino stuff 💻. One day you brainstorm creatively fishing for an idea that you'll try to code the next morning. That's what it's all about - not setting boundries, but broading the view and looking for possibilites. Everywhere!

25/10/2017

🔵 New project is here! 🔵

http://www.kotowskastudio.com/portfolio/micolor/

Micolor is a company providing sound and light solutions for events. I worked with them on their visual identity - logo, corporate stationery and custom business cards. Check them out on my website! 👀

21/10/2017

🐝Feeling like a busy bee? I do! 🐝
When work is tough, university stuff complicated, energy low and rainy outside, the only remedy is TAKING CONTROL. Not easy at first, but no worries - get's better one step at a time. For me it all begins with a good to-do list - I instantly feel that this 1% of control is back 👌

And Nabhan Abdullatif again - such a brilliant illustrator, who captures concepts like this with such a charm and simplicity - amazing, isn't it!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Q2oJP0gVak/?taken-by=nabhan_illustrations

17/10/2017

🌸 New project is here! 🌸

http://www.kotowskastudio.com/portfolio/biancs/

Looking for a baby shower gift? Bianc's is a place to go!
It's all about providing a set of useful and amazing gadgets both for the mother and the baby - perfct! I designed a full identity for the brand including a logo, business cards, stickers, leaflets and packaging. Take a look 💕

14/10/2017

⭐️ Weekend celebration ⭐️

400 and till counting - so happy to have you all here and so grateful for all the support that comes with it.

07/10/2017

🌙⭐️Working during the weekend? ⭐️🌙
Yeah, I know - it feels almost as bad as a night shift...

Nabhan Abdullatif is a brilliant illustrator, who captures concepts like this with such a charm and simplicity - amazing, isn't it!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BFKGK3bAVXv/?taken-by=nabhan_illustrations

26/09/2017

🖐️ Have you seen this project? 🖐️

Dance and movement in general have always been a big part of my life. When this opportunity showed up - I couldn't say no! I was asked to design two posters for an art contest hosted by the Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa in Warsaw. The purpose of the project was to introduce an educational programme organized by the Polish National Ballet called „Recognizing through dance”. Take a look! 👀

Can you spot the 5-6-7-8 joke in there? 💃

http://www.kotowskastudio.com/po…/recognizing-through-dance/

22/09/2017

✨ Friday jokes mode: ON! ✨

Giggling over this one and sending you all a lot of positive weekend vibes! 😎

19/09/2017

2/2 Creativity is a process! 🔆

Ken Robinson, the author of this lovely quote from the last post, is quite a famous TED speaker. One of his best known speeches is the one in which he covers the topic of how school environmen supports (or doesn't support at all) our creativity. Take a look 👇 and let me know how do you like it? Can you relate?

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

18/09/2017

1/2 Creativity is a process! 🔆

Ken Robinson is quite a famous TED speaker and, so to say, an expert on creative thinking and the way that creative minds function.

We tend to think about creativity as a blessing - as something that is either given to us or not, something that you can be born with or without. In fact it's more of an action that we may encourage our brain to do. It's a different thinking-path, a different problem-solving method. Creativity is not only about coming up with a smart idea for a logo - it's more about looking at the world, at the challenges but also at day-to-day situations, from a different perspective!

www.kotowskastudio.com

15/09/2017

😎 Indeed... What if I'm my own boss...? 😎

Happy to day that I'll be celebrating anyway!

It's not always super easy and straightforward to work primarily with yourself, but once you manage, it's so satisfying! I honestly don't think you can ever feel "ready" for this - for me it was all about a deep-dive and a bit of trust in my superpowers! Made it until here - 9 months of running Kotowska Studio! Hooray! 🥂

14/09/2017

👀 Hopefully! 👀

How many times have you questioned the meaning of all these failures? Guess I can say I'm quite experienced - even though there's been a lot of them, I mostly remember all the good things that came later on.

And the flexibility I gain throughout the process. 💪

And how I positively distance myself from what I used to consider a "failure". 🔆 It's a lesson! It's a motivation for one more try - and quite often that "one more try" is beyond any previous expectations!

06/09/2017

👊 FIGHT! 👊

Procrastination is a source of frustration and unproductivity for me - definitely sucks. But still, even though I'm aware of it and I (more or less) understand myself in this matter, I still sometimes tend to fall into bad old habits of procrastinating.

Any suggestions here? How do you fight your lazy demons? 💣

http://www.kotowskastudio.com

03/09/2017

🥑 Kotowska Studio is accepting new clients! 🥑 (yes, it's cute avo)

If you need:
▫️A logo and visual identity
▫️A poster for an event
▫️Handwritten wedding stationery with calligraphy on it
▫️Business cards refreshment

Let me know! I'll be happy to help!

28/08/2017

Marc Jacobs knew what he was talking about!

Doing what I love is the most powerful energy source for me!
Of course my work is all about doing what I love, but there's more. What's on my personal toplist?
🚴‍ All kinds of sports - from yoga to cycling!
🌳 Spending time out, close to nature.
🥑 Cooking and eating.
✈️ Travelling!
🎷 Live music, oh yes, that's definitely my thing...
📖 ... and reading documenty books!

What are yours? Leave a couple of emojis in the comment - share what are the things that you really love to do - I'm curious!

19/08/2017

FROM 📷 TO 📱

Invented by Louis Daguerre and Joseph Niépce back in 1839, photography became one of the most popular ways of capturing the moment and of sharing memories with others! Let's celebrate - leave a picture you've taken today in the comment!

Also take a look at this amazing project:
https://worldphotoday.com
"By bringing together millions of photographers around the world, we’re connecting people in a global celebration that invests back into our local and global communities" - amazing!