In his loud, maximalist artworks, Andrzej G reanimates the 2000s

“My biggest inspiration? My brain, my friends and Y2K,” says Andrzej G, a 20-year-old graphic designer based in Poland who is making a large dent on Instagram with vibrant amateur artworks for musical artists such as JpegMafia, Paris Texas, and Gorillaz. “While posters are my first love,” says Andrzej, “my creative practice spans across cover art, editorial layouts, branding, and even clothing design.” Always coloured with vibrant new millennium aesthetics, Andrzej brings Gen-Z maximalism into the fray with spiky collage work and blasts of layered multimedia textiles. The works identify with celebrity culture – whilst always fixating around a central recognisable face or brand name, Andrzej builds highly animated worlds around them, thus drawing the viewer into their niche mythos.

Across posters, zine spreads or t-shirts, Andrzej communicates an obsession with process and imperfection, letting digital scuffs, overlay clutter and jagged cuts sit in their loudness. “There’s always a story in the chaos – something about youth or memory – and I let the materials speak as loudly as the message,” says Andrzej. “I treat design as something to touch, break, reassemble – and above all, feel.” In Andrzej’s hyper modern design, the world has been shattered and put back together with all sorts of edges to snag your nostalgia on. It’s catnip for the graphic designer side of Pinterest for good reason, it’s new and old in a way that only someone born in 2005 could achieve – just young enough to miss most of the 2000s, just old enough to hijack it anyway.