For graphic design I use a combination of apps like Photoshop and Illustrator for Mac (I have them on both iMac and Macbook Air) and mobile apps like Art Studio and Procreate for the iPad Pro. I love the digital landscape for art because I am an artistic person to begin with. This was a natural transition for me and I am hooked learning new techniques — like manipulation of layers, vector masks, and shadows.
[Note]: I also have a separate and graphic-designed website here. Check out my portfolio, which includes more samples than on this site and blog. Also, check out my digital illustrations portfolio on this site. Some of my other professional links:
- Here is an AI infographic I created entirely from scratch using the various designs and graphics you see in this portfolio plus more.
- My graphic design resume in infographic format.
- Logo design ideas and concepts
- My visual ads I created for Google Display Network.
- Motion Graphics samples on my other site
The below graphic was my former header image for the site:
Take a look at the main header image or banner on the site here. I created it entirely from scratch or on my own and I had to make sure each area or wkde of it corresponds accordingly to the same objects on the other side. Meaning, the snake heads, for instance, are equal distance from the electronic eyes in space. The yea or eye-like objects also are equal distance from the visual image of me (or my representation), which is also site logo, done within a circle. The idea was that it is a face since the nose is either covered by or represented by text: Maciej Duriaj and below it: ”Multimedia Journalist, Writer & Artist..
Something similar I also created related to the theme of science fiction or space:
Another header image or banner image that I created previously. I use an offshoot of this design on my other website:
One of my Google Display ads I creaTed when running InvoiceOcean as marketing lead:
Me using vector fills and strokes instead of lettering or the type tool for a font:
“The Desk” or “Desktop Computing”:
The iPad Reimagined:
Corporate style of graphic design or flow charts I can create at a whim that also match my writing if need be (this was done for CKSource although not published due to time constraints and them having graphic designers full-time on hand – so mostly just for fun on my end):
Data Breach Abstract Concept:
An older version of it that I think has some worthwhile merit to it:
Note the brain image at bottom or artificial intelligence concept and compare the asset below:
Like the samples above, the one below also are within the theme of AI or machine learning:
The icons I created from scratch in the circles being directed into the mind or space head below represent: smart human – smart home – smart car.
- Here was an article I wrote and self-published on Medium that showcases both my writing skills and design skills as I used a version of the design above. The original version had a larger mainframe computer attached to the head or brain within the image, but I changed it for some of the versions I created.
- Click to see more AI design ideas here that I created.
Please see my cloud computing and distributed nodes samples here.
My motion graphics and cloud computing sample video of the visuals above here.
The Age of Robotics:
Some robotics samples combining some aspects of photography I personally took with graphic design (more of my robotics samples if you keep scrolling down, but those are older versions):
This one started as a photo that I digitally manipulated into a puzzle piece of sorts and also the theory of duality or yin yang and two sides of one coin comes into play in this work:
Combining my own photography with birds I added digitally and other effects with a style I like to use of photo enhancement/,manipulation and some assets I also create (not just the photographs I took) in sometimes small or hardly noticeable areas of the overall image:
These skulls on the TVs formed like automatically without me trying to form them and based on another design I added to the TV sets:
This is like a map of an older role playing game or that was my idea behind it, or of topography, but it also has a face on it if you look closely:
My idea behind the concept of a smart car:
The last version above is the most colorful, but I have other revisions of it available. The road keeps going from the computerized screen to the real world. I was thinking this may be off putting when first seeing it, but I remember it was a decision I made at the time as it made sense it would have a road to continue on.
Abstract concept of Industry 4.0:
Abstract concept of Bitcoin mining:
My latest fantasy type of artwork combining graphic design and digital illustration (you will see older versions, albeit different and having higher resolutions below):
This one was done originally by me in pure oil pastels but I digitized it by taking a photo and adding to it such as the sun ray bouncing off the sword using digital media or brushes and some shadow effects as well as highlights:
Like the above, this one started as a hand-made artwork, mix of oil and both hard and soft pastels, however, I have moved or added a second lantern in the background and used the clone tool to entirely change or fix the thrown-like chair and added other pure digital changes to it:
Also in oils, but some enhancements to colors or saturation via software:
Some robotic design (these are older samples from the top or above robotics section):
Combining photography (I took personally) with graphic design for robotics and artificial intelligence ideas:
My Mario Galaxy game interpretation
Metroid Glitch Art I created:
More fantasy-themed designs or artwork
playing with perspective or different layers of background:
Space ship or shooter concept for a gaming style of artwork or maybe a sci-fi motion picture — notice that I added two other similar designs below it that I also created and a few distinct ship designs:
Similar concept to above, but with a photo I took from small mirrors reflecting aspects of my face:
Seat in back vs seat in front:
More samples of this in the illustration section as it is more of an illustration, but it does combine various assets, such as the bear, from different media including my own hand drawings with some graphic design effects added:
I call this one Madness and it is also based on an older design or space war gaming style of a design:
Retro Gaming Branding Idea (based on a screenshot I took of me playing Sonic for Master System via emulation):
Vector work: using Illustrator on iPad:
Some poster ideas for branding:
Branding Ideas:
Luzztro nightclub (Warsaw) poster / social media ad:
Ads for Coca-Cola
Below I will keep editing and arranging the sample works as I add new content. I mostly have kept it chronological from top to bottom (latest to oldest), but not always. Sometimes it is based on what I want to showcase most or like most as well.
Here is a general portfolio of various samples (such as for book covers or gaming ideas):
Some designs I created from a photograph that has me in it after a wrestling class (I enjoy manipulating photographs and turning them into surreal designs):
Robotics:
Artificial Intelligence Concepts
Driverless Cars
Some driverless car (autonomous vehicles) graphic design I created originally from a graphite sketch and imported into my iPad and subsequently Illustrator. I used these in a Forbes articles related to the topic I also wrote.
Pixel Art
Below are pixel art alongside digital illustration work I’ve created (also in the illustration section, but decided to include it here since that section focuses mostly on traditional art I’ve created).
Please see PDF file of compilation of the graphic above here in a compilation.
Mixed media (my own photograhy incuded):
Cloud computing abstract concept from scratch:
Workers working alongside machines:
Data breach in Abstract
More Robotics:
Bird flight
A Google concept image:
An Apple concept where I created everything from scratch including the iPad:
Game Board and pawns I created from scratch and out of a magazine article I vectorized:
Taking the concept further of combining digital illustration with photography. I’ve added photography I’ve taken in Barcelona (the columns on sides of doorway as well as the to ghostly figures that were statues from National Museum in Warsaw I edited and added with low opacity. The rest is from my own assets or digital graphics I’ve created and am reusing, albeit revising, for this piece:
Below is one of my revent ideas to do a project on quantum computing or as I called it, “Out of This World Computing.” Everything is done by me as I took old projects and put them together with a filter into this almost stone-looking Egyptian structure:
Here is my latest Vector-based project using Illustrator on Mac — I used a photograph I took on iPad near me to represent cloud computing and networking, but the rest is all done in Illustrator:
I wanted to do something entirely hand-crafted on iPad not cut and pasted in a sense. This was a digital illustration done on iPad using a stylus before I bought the Apple Pencil. The idea was to do a cloud computing concept:
Earlier Apple Computer aconcepts (2018)
Bird through clouds (2018) – I drew this bird digitally on iPad and used my own sky photography for background art:
I inserted the bird flying i to Adobe Illustrator, vectorized it by tracing and added some filters and other changes:
A graphic I created for a blog post related to iPad Anonymity via VPN:
Here is a piece I did a few years back for PC World (TechHive blog at the time) where I wrote and researched this entire story and added this image using photoshop and scaling from public image database (as well as Apple’s website for the devices and TV shot):
Artificial Intelligence concept (2017):
Here are some samples of my latest content crearion (the iPads below were entirely hand drawn using my finger on the iPad screen and an app called Art Studio for iPad):
Minimalism concept (more here):
Using basic digital imagine apps on iPad combined with some of my photography and some of my traditional, pastel-based, artwork to create a mini collage of sorts (for more such samples and go to my Art & Illustrations page):
All artwork included in this article was created by me (Maciej Duraj) and is copyrighted @MaciejDuraj.com. If you want to use it, contact me and we can also work on further work for commissions.
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