In the long run — a photographic and editorial study of Warsaw's public clocks across 20 civic locations, surveying the city's timepieces as documents of civic identity, architectural era, and collective memory. Exhibited at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris.
Each pin marks a documented timepiece — from baroque clock towers and royal gardens to neon city plans and a 19th-century sundial carved into granite.
Exhibition installation at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris — the large-format publication laid open on plinths, inviting visitors to move through the research as a physical space.
In the long run / सार्वजनिक स्थानों पर घड़ियाँ — the bilingual opening spread photographed at the exhibition, showing the large-format publication open on the plinth.
The publication spread open — left page: photographic survey of Warsaw's 20 public clocks. Right page: the spatial taxonomy map locating each clock across the city's districts.
Exhibition view — the large-format publications laid open on plinths across the hall at Palais de la Porte Dorée, inviting visitors to move through the research as a physical space.
Photographs taken across Warsaw's public spaces over the course of the research — from the Royal Castle to Neon Wielka Warszawa. Each clock surveyed as a document of its era, material, and civic context.
Zodiac mosaic clock — twelve bronze animal figures arranged around a sunburst face, embedded into a building facade in the New Town district.
Mosaic clock — Rynek Nowego Miasta. Richly coloured ceramic tiles form a figurative face, combining timekeeping with decorative civic art.
Wilanów sundial — an ornate baroque sundial on a sculptural stone base, set in the formal gardens of Pałac w Wilanowie.
Tower clock — Kościół św. Ducha. Iron-framed face with gold Roman numerals, serving the surrounding street.
Astronomical clock — Kamienica pod Lwem. Gold on black, with zodiac figures and celestial ornamentation.
Art Nouveau clock tower — copper-green turrets frame a small clock face on a residential building corner.
Wall sundial — terracotta relief with zodiac border and radiating hour lines, mounted on a brick facade.
Aleje Jerozolimskie sundial — radiating metal rods on a concrete facade, a modernist civic timepiece.
Głaz Jastrzębowskiego — a sundial carved directly into a granite boulder, Roman numerals worn into the stone surface across centuries of weather.
Bronze equinox marker — a scientific instrument mounted on granite, recording the precise moments of spring and summer equinox.
Royal Castle clock tower — Wieża Zegarowa Zamku Królewskiego, the foremost civic timepiece of Warsaw.
Saxon Garden sundial — Pałac na Wodzie. Elegant gold gnomon on a classical column plinth.
Palace of Culture and Science clock — high on the socialist-realist tower, visible across the city skyline.
Blue and gold mosaic sundial — an intricately tessellated sun face embedded into a building wall.
Baroque tower clock — gold hands and numerals set against a richly decorated red stone facade.
Classical white clock face — clean Roman numerals on a pale stone tower.
Ulica Grzybowska spiral sundial — an unusual abstract timepiece, a favourite of the research survey.
Neon Wielka Warszawa — a blazing red neon map of the city, functioning as a clock of a different kind.
Modernist clock tower — black iron frame with gold Roman numerals and triangular hour markers.
Neon clock on Aleje Jerozolimskie — photographed after dark, the glowing face reflects off the wet pavement.
A city's clocks are its public memory — each one recording not just time, but the era that made it.
— Research framing, The Civic City / Inscriptions, Warsaw 2019
Systematic photographic survey of Warsaw's public clocks across districts — baroque towers, modernist tram stops, socialist-era mechanisms, civic squares. Building a visual archive sorted by location, era, and design character.
Classifying the surveyed clocks by typology, historical period, architectural context, typeface, and civic function. Building the underlying information architecture — the classification system that gives the editorial design its structure and logic.
Designing the visual and typographic framework — large-format grid, type hierarchy, colour system, image integration logic. Building a system that could carry both research rigour and visual narrative simultaneously.
Translating the editorial system into a large-scale physical installation — adapting print spreads for exhibition format, preparing production-ready files, and collaborating with the international academic cohort for the Paris presentation.
The ability to survey a city's public clocks — each carrying distinct typographic, temporal, and architectural meaning — and build a rigorous classification system, visual taxonomy, and narrative hierarchy from scratch, with no client brief.
Designing a typographic and grid system that carries both research rigour and visual narrative across large-format printed spreads — translating a photographic urban survey into a coherent, exhibition-ready editorial system.
Work selected for exhibition at Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris — one of France's foremost cultural institutions — demonstrating research quality and design thinking that operates within European cultural and academic contexts.
The project was selected for international exhibition at Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris — home to the Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, one of France's foremost cultural institutions.
The work was exhibited as part of a programme exploring the intersection of civic space, cultural identity, and visual communication — bringing together research from an international academic cohort across Warsaw and Paris.
Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris — venue of the international exhibition, 2019.
Open to senior in-house roles, design consultancy partnerships, and long-term freelance or retainer engagements — particularly within Europe.