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The Polish edition of ELLE magazine featured Agnieszka’s tote bag designs with a text that went something like this: “She creates her bags like a graphic designer - color and form are most important. It’s because of these bags that her design studio Kiss Me I’m Polish in New York’s Brooklyn has gained its mark in the world of fashion.” I guess some things were lost in translation, but hey, we were in ELLE.

And it’s the second time a Polish publication has titled a piece about us with “Kiss the Polish Girl.” Is that how you say “Kiss Me I’m Polish” in Polish?

Published by the Princeton Architectural Press this book commemorates the AIGA’s 20th Anniversary Fresh Dialogue - the fifth in a series aimed at bringing together emerging design talent and providing them with an open forum to discuss their own work and the direction of the field. Agnieszka Gasparska was one of the five speakers at the event, and the book offers a detailed replay of the evening.
Edited by Nicola Bednarek

For 10 years, PRINT Magazine has featured an annual issue called the New Visual Artists Review, introducing and profiling 20 of the most promising rising talents in graphic design, advertising, illustration, digital media, photography, and animation—all under the age of 30. Agnieszka Gasparska was selected as a winner in 2005.

Published by Rotovision, this book “examines design that appeals to the senses through luxury, profusion and excess.” It features the interactive animation Kiss Me I’m Polish created in collaboration with Fischerspooner for Amnesty International’s 40th anniversary.

In 1999, the American Institute of Graphic Arts launched Fresh Dialogue, a series aimed at bringing together emerging design talent and providing them with an open forum to discuss their own work and the direction of the field.
This year, five talented and eloquent designers (Alice Chung, Karen Hsu, Agnieszka Gasparska, Rodrigo Corral and Alan Dye) from the disparate worlds of fashion, publishing, web, advertising and art unleashed a dialogue about their work. They were kept in check by design’s inky colossus, the always unpredictable Chip Kidd.

An assortment of hand-made bags designed by Kiss Me I’m Polish was featured in the Playful issue of the Warsaw-based fashion and culture monthly. Translation of article title into English – “Kiss the Polish Girl.” That’s 3 for 3.

Agnieszka Gasparska was featured as a Fine Young Specimen in this issue’s Field Guide to Design’s New Breed.

Writes David Womack: “For a recent meeting, she peddled up on a violet “Free Spirit” bicycle wearing a matching violet coat. This kind of coincidence is not unusual. ‘I often find,’ she says, ‘when I go to a client meeting, my clothes match the colors on my presentation. I don’t plan it, but certain colors seem to fit certain periods of my life and get reflected in my work. Color is very important to me.”