My dear friend, Olka Osadzinska, is one of the most amazing visual creatives I know. Years ago she started to draw her friends from photographs, since then she has become a respected and influential graphic designer. Based in Warsaw she is the key part of international bloggers community, working with people like Mark Cobrasnake, Facehunter and many others. She’s done tons of ads and collaborations. So far she worked on a few huge projects and cooperated with brands such as Reebok, Nike, Hugo Boss, Paramount Pictures, SAB Miller, Max Factor, Jägermeister and many others.

In June 2007 she held her first exhibition, organised in cooperation with Nike. She had the chance to exhibit her works, and arrange the Warszawska Nike concept store space. On June 5th 2008 she launched her exhibition project in cooperation with Mark Hunter (thecobrasnake) and Stephen Dewaele from Soulwax. The project was called Nite Stories. It consisted of 11 acrylic paintings.

Last year she was invited by Mark Hunter and Paramount Pictures to take part in the viral campaign for the new Star Trek movie. She has designed two t-shirts and painted the Star Trek USS Enterprise flag ship. Visual below.

Olka knows how to channel emotions through illustrations. That’s the strongest aspect of her work which makes it so appealing. You rock, girl!

www.aleosa.com

www. oskaa.blog.pl

Now concentrating solely on menswear, Wibke from ADDeertz recently brought out her new spring/summer 2010 collection. It’s a really nice combination of comfortable, well-cut slacks and shirts, which offer a great alternative to the ubiquitous jeans and t-shirt uniform standards.

In contrast to ADD, it’s as if Berlin based designers Starstyling just released their collection for last winter judging by the number of people currently sporting the clothes in Berlin Clubs:

It seems like they tried to be quirky for its own sake, taking their influences from the worst of the latent new-wave electro summer. This combined with metalic lycra spacesuits from the set of a terrible soft core sixties sci-fi porno has created something I struggle to come to terms with, let alone imagine why you would actually wear this stuff. Maybe it’s some kind of hommage to the re-release of Star Trek and Duncan Jones’ new film Moon. Luckily, this next years collection looks to be moving back in the right direction.

The Campana brothers have also just released a new amazingly limited edition polo shirt for Lacoste with the aligator logo repeated and piled ontop of itself a dozen times. Apparently it’s supposed to recreate the behaviour of the animals in mud pits, but leavign the concept aside, they’re a pretty nice collectors item.