Andrzej Pawłowski

Andrzej Pawłowski (1925–1986) was a sculptor, photographer, experimental filmmaker and designer. He graduated from the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Later he lectured at the academy, and co-founded the Department of Industrial Forms, then serving as its dean. His experimental activities in the field of art (particularly involving techniques of depicting images) were joined together with functional design. From the 1960s onward, he worked as a constructor for Prozamet, a company that designed and built production facilities for the metal and electrotechnical industries. He went on to supervise the work of the research team in charge of analyzing the ergonomics of car seating. He designed a variety of products and concepts, including exhibition spaces, furnishings, telephones, industrial machines for the metal industry and agricultural hand tools. Both branches of Pawłowski's practice, the artistic and the utilitarian, were based on a common theoretical foundation, the essence of which was the idea of "forms shaped naturally." (Source)