Tomek Ratajczak

About artist

Born
1971

Tomasz Ratajczak (born 1971) in Wrocław, typographer, teacher, musician, cultural animator, lettering enthusiast.

In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts, University of Silesia branch in Cieszyn - a student of Alfred Biedrawa, Ewa Chojecka, diploma in painting in 1998 under Prof. Kazimierz Cieślik.

Since 2012, he has been working as a teacher of graphic arts at the Bielsko-Biała Industrial School.

Founder of the flyingFISH Letterpress hand printing studio, populariser of print, black art - typography. His activity in this field contributes to the popularisation of the disappearing art of manual typesetting and traditional printing techniques, and he invariably strives to reactivate it in a new, artistic version.

He conducts workshops for young people and those interested in traditional printing techniques.

He cooperates with the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Association "Areszt Sztuki", the cultural and literary magazine "Vari-Art." and the Provincial Public Library in Olsztyn (Old Printing Techniques Studio).

Originator and curator of the international typographic project LemPress 2020 and Lempress 2021. Co-organiser of the international typographic project: we print CopernicusPress 2022 and CopernicusPress.

He has been exhibiting typographic work since 2020.