Here, we ask designers to take a selfie and give us an inside look at their life.
Age: 33
Occupation: Designer/artist.
Instagram: @marcinrusak
Hometown: Warsaw.
Studio location: Warsaw.
Describe what you make: Unique pieces, materials, sculptures, installations.
The most important thing you’ve designed to date: The fact that the pieces transition.
Describe the problem your work solves: It questions the idea of decay, ephemerality, and preservation.
Describe the project you are working on now: We continue to research aging materials and how to control their environment.
A new or forthcoming project we should know about: Design Miami/ solo show with Twenty First Gallery, “Young Poland” at William Morris Gallery, and a new project for the studio based on flora called “Genius Loci.”
What you absolutely must have in your studio: Music.
What you do when you’re not working: Working on how to relax better!
Sources of creative envy: I try not to live with envy.
The distraction you want to eliminate: Overthinking.
Concrete or marble? Sand.
High-rise or townhouse? Cottage.
Remember or forget? Remember how to forget.
Aliens or ghosts? Neither.
Dark or light? Both.
