Hi I’m Martyna, a Detroit-based artist and designer. I work in a diverse range of projects from conventional identities to illustrations, book design and paintings. I share my time between a personal practice, graphic design, and drawing, collaborating with various institutions, brands, publications and partners across the US.

Originally, a designer working in corporate settings for over 10 years, I now use my design experience to create abstract works of art to uncover the deeper connections felt to place and identity while examining the simplified structures of man-made systems as visual objects. As a designer, I’ve worked with companies such as Apple, Floyd, Shinola, and Arcosanti, and as an artist I’ve shown in Detroit, Chicago, Spain, Tokyo and at fairs across the US.

I identify with the fascination common among my generation for both positive tech and more traditional anti-tech activities and lifestyles, each expressed visually and as contradictions in my work. My practices examine labor and how to use our time to healthfully survive in modern society in balance with the harsh contrasts of multiple cultures, ideologies, and identities.