Bartosz Kosowski
Illustrator
Selected clients:
Apple, Disney, EA, Legendary Pictures, Canal+, Netflix, New Yorker
Awards:
5x🥇1x🥈 1x🥉Society of Illustrators,🥇Spectrum, WIA, 3x3, CA, EDA, Graphis, American Illustration
- Sound on. An animated version of my 10 year old mock-up @newyorkermag.bsky.social cover. #illustration #newyorker #newyorkercovers #newyorkerart #snowzilla #newyorksnow #blizzard
- Did this mock-up @newyorker.com cover 10 years ago. Seems pretty accurate today. Stay safe out there in NYC. #illustration #nyc #blizzard #snowzilla #newyorkercover
- Want to get a portrait of Robert Lewandowski signed by... Robert himself and help someone? Place your bid on my drawing below: allegro.pl/oferta/rober... All the money from the auction will be donated to Fundacja WOSP - the organization which supports Polish children’s hospitals.
- TURANDOT just got a SILVER MEDAL in NYC! It’s hard to express how thrilled I am to share the news that my Turandot for Opera Poznan have just received a Silver Medal from Society of Illustrators NY @soi128.bsky.social Huge thanks to the judges! #illustrators68 #societyofillustrators #soi128
- You asked, I listened! „Le Grand Bleu” 4-colour screenprint is finally available in smaller (50x70cm) format. To celebrate the drop, the print is now 20% OFF with the code LGB20. The code is valid till Monday. Direct links to International and Polish orders below: linktr.ee/bartoszkosow...
- Everyone else is doing it so why can’t I? BLACK FRIDAY SALE is here again. All prints in my store are 20% off with the code BF25. Valid till Friday! linktr.ee/bartoszkosow...
- „Composition with two circles and a subtle yet meaningful gradient” is a 7-colour screenprint on gorgeous metallic 300gr paper. This 24x36’’ (61x91,5cm) screenprint is now available in my store and for the next 48 hours you can get free shipping if you use the code CIRCLES at the checkout.
- You can get yours here: bartoszkosowski.bigcartel.com/product/comp... Unfortunately shipping to US is still suspended :(
- „Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make!” - my portrait of Bela Lugosi created 13 years ago. Happy Halloween! #halloweeen #halloweekend #belalugosi
- My tiny Plus illo created for Festiwal Polskich Filmów Fabularnych. I created lots of sketches for this one and the final image depicts one of the iconic modernist buildings in Gdynia. It was designed by Roman Piotrowski in 1935 as the headquarters of the Social Insurance Institution.
- The Klub Twórców Reklamy KTR collection grows bigger (the ones with flowers are still my favourite).
- Two bronze KTR swords this year! ★ FC Bayern Stamps (Publishing Category)- portraits of football players for @fcbayernmunich.bsky.social Magazine 51 ★ Le Grand Bleu (Print) - 4 colour screenprint (shoutout to Reprint again for printing this piece so beautifully!) #klubtwórcówreklamy
- D&AD pencils really do look gorgeous and I finally have mine at home. Still can’t believe I got one for my „Le grand bleu” poster. This 4-colour screenprint has been printed by my friends at Reprint who did an absolutely amazing job! #legrandbleu #poster #dandad #screenprint #polishposter
- I have just packed this one and it made me realize that it is almost 10 years since he passed away. I drew this portrait the day Blackstar came out and then, two days later, The Man who Fell to Earth left it. #davidbowie #lazarus #blackstar #illustration #print
- Scheda premieres today at @hbo.bsky.social and… so does my key visual mural illustration. You can see the mural in a Polish seaside resort town of Jastarnia. #scheda #hbomax #mural
- SUMMER SALE / 20% off all prints plus a bonus UV postcard for every order / Use the code SS20 at the checkout - link in bio / Valid till Aug 31 bartoszkosowski.bigcartel.com #SummerSale #polishposter #lolita #uvvarnish #bartoszkosowski
- My portraits for University of Massachusetts have just been featured on best of @behance.bsky.social gallery!
- Sometimes the reference photos I get from the clients are super tiny so drawing the portraits can be a bit of a challenge but... I always do my best to get the liking right. Here’s a new set of portraits for In Memoriam section of the University of Massachusetts magazine.
- Congratulations Iga!!!
- More good news this week! The second project that got a Merit Award in the @3x3mag.bsky.social Illustration Awards and will appear in the Annual 22 later this year are my Trump and Kamala election portraits for @politico.com #3x3annual #politico #trump #kamala
- Yay! I’ve got 3 nominations in the KTR Awards: ★ FC Bayern Stamps - portraits of football players for @fcbayernmunich.bsky.social Magazine 51 (Publishing) ★ Le Grand Bleu - 4 colour screenprinted poster on Stardream metallic paper (two nominations in Print and Art / Personal Projects) #awards
- Carmy: „We can’t operate at a higher level without consistency.” #thebear #jeremyallenwhite #carmy #portrait #illustratedportrait
- Thrilled to hear that two of my projects got a Merit Award in the @3x3mag.bsky.social Illustration Awards and will appear in the Annual 22 book later this year!!! The first one is my portrait of Kylian Mbappe which I created during Euro 2024!
- Blue and grey, grey and blue. A new portrait. #portrait
- Jaws was released 50 years ago today! Here's the screenprint I created 10 years ago. The hand drawn illustration was made out of 202 solid lines and the process was extremely time-consuming. I redrew the poster three times, each time drawing more lines and making them more and more fluid...
- Leonard A. Lauder (1933-2025) My portrait of Mr. Lauder created for WWD CEO Summit back in 2018. #leonardlauder #lauder #esteelauder #handdrawn #editorialillustration #editorialportrait
- Turandot premieres today at Teatr Wielki w Poznaniu and... so does my poster for it! This high quality giclee is available today in 3 formats and to celebrate the premiere, you get FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING with the code TURANDOT. The code is valid till Monday! linktr.ee/bartoszkosow...
- My portraits for @politico.com have been longlisted for World Illustration Awards in the Editorial category!!! Huge thanks to the jury, Politico and Jade Cuevas who art directed the piece! #worldillustrationawards #illustration #wia2025 #trump #kamala #editorialillustration
- A quick preview of David Hume’s portrait. Using paintings and etchings as reference is ”just a bit” more difficult than using the photos.
- Can’t believe it! Le Grand Bleu got an D&AD Pencil last evening in London! Being shortlisted was already a dream come true but this is just UNBELIEVABLE! Huge thanks to the jury and Reprint who beautifully printed this 4-colour screenprint! #dandad #dandad25 #polishposter #legrandbleu
- OMG!!! I just got the news that my "Le Grand Bleu" has been shortlisted for D&AD! It means a lot to me to be shortlisted for one of the most (if not the most) prestigious awards in the industry! I know it sounds cliche but… this really made my day (if not the whole week)!
- What’s more, I have also learnt today that this poster, together with the posters for "King of Dope” and „Return to Legoland” got into Poster Quadrennial Bardejov! That’s a lot of good news for one day!!!
- A peek behind the curtain. „Turandot” for The Poznań Opera House #operaposter #turandot #giacomopuccini #polishposter #poster #puccini #plakat #jacekkaspszyk
- I am so bloody happy that I can finally share my first opera poster with you! Here’s my piece for Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot by Jacek Kaspszyk and Ran Arthur Braun commissioned by The Poznań Opera House #operaposter #turandot #giacomopuccini #polishposter #poster #puccini #plakat #jacekkaspszyk
- Thanks American Illustration!
- American Illustration 43 Winner @bartoszkosowski.bsky.social #rep Blackbird ”Le Grand Bleu” is a self-generated poster project created for 1988 Lub Besson’s film. #legrandbleu #movieposter
- „Composition with two circles and a subtle yet meaningful gradient” has just dropped! This 24x36’’ (61x91,5cm) giclee is now available in my store and for the next 24 hours you can get it 20% OFF if you use the code MAY at the checkout. bartoszkosowski.bigcartel.com/product/comp...
- A collection of @fcbayernmunich.bsky.social portrait stamps for Magazine 51. The illustration idea for the portraits was to create illustrations of the five pioneers in a stamp format to highlight their historic achievements and showcase the unique culture and aesthetics of their home countries.
- Great news on Thursday!!! My double portrait of Kamala and Trump for @politico.com is a chosen winner of American illustration 44! Thanks to all the judges of American Illustration and congrats to all the winners! #illustration #trump #kamalaharris #americanillustration44 #AI44
- Working title: „Composition with two circles and a subtle yet meaningful gradient.” Let me know what you think.
- My portraits for Free Society magazine have been featured on @behance.bsky.social Illustration Gallery :) #editorialportrait #editorialillustration #behance #freesociety
- Today I’ve decided to update the colours of Trump portrait I did for @politico.com some time ago. trump #politico #editorialportrait
- „I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” DL I did my first Lynch poster back in 2014 for „In Dreams” show at @spoke-art.com and I have done a couple more since then. Yesterday I realized that there is no director whose films I illustrated more often. #davidlynch
- So thrilled to have these three pieces accepted into this year’s Society of Illustrators LA Illustrators West 63 show. The works that got in are "Le Grand Bleu", a portrait of Kylian Mbappe I did during Euro 2024 and the double portrait of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris for @politico.com
- One of the portraits for Saltwater Sportsman magazine. #editorialportrait #illustratedportrait
