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Zbigniew (Zbyszek) Bzymek

Education


Intensive course study in The History of Art at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 1996/97

B.A., cum Laude in English, cum Laude overall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 1998

Certificate in publishing, Radcliffe Publishing Course, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1998

M.A., Film/Theatre directing, Polish National Film School, Lodz, Poland 2008



click for photos I took in Spain
Full-time Creative Industry Experience

Designer, guggenheim.com, New York, NY 2000-2001
  • shot and edited videos about the work of Hugo Boss Prize-winning artists for development in Flash
  • created main page designs for European museums (Kunsthistorisches in Vienna) within the Guggenheim network
  • created dynamic videos from high resolution digital stills in Flash and AfterEffects.

    Writer/Designer, droog.com, iTurf Network, New York, NY 1999-2000
  • conceptualized, wrote and designed entertainment features for teen-interest site/fashion catalog
  • invented, designed web toys with integrated contests/special online events

    Web Marketing Associate, Avon Books, Hearst Publishing, New York, NY 1998-1999
  • designed and coded promotional entertainment features catering to book fanbase
  • collaborated with Hearst New Media on survey data collection architecture and other back-end marketing functionality
  • wrote and coded weekly email newsletters




  • My video for Lupa's Die Zauberflöte photo K. Bielinski
    Grants/Honors/Publications

  • 2008/2009 Fellowship in Film, New York Foundation of the Arts
  • M.A.P. Grant with Mallory Catlett and Peter Ksander for Oh What War
  • Interview on Radio France International, Nagle Na Zawsze Zbigniewa Bzymka, Dec. 2008
  • Bzymek/Lupa InterviewThe Factory and It's Double May 2007 Modern Painters
  • Video Designer on Abandon, OBIE Award-winning show 2006/2007
  • Associate Artist, The Wooster Group
  • ING Nationale Nederlanden Screenwriting Award and Grant 2003
  • Video Design of Samuel Beckett's Embers, a Village Voice Highlight of the Year 2000/2001
  • Special guest appearance on Night Guardian, a nighttime talk show on Kultura- the Polish culture channel
  • Special screening of "In Hotel Siren" by the Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin
  • Watson Scholarship Finalist 1998


  • feature I designed for the no longer active droog
    Special Skills

  • Fluent Polish, conversational German and Russian
  • Photography and filming
  • Expert Final Cut Pro, AfterEffects, Photoshop; Proficient HTML, Flash, Illustrator, javascript
  • Projecting, video mixing, event/installation design
  • Storyboarding, scripting, retouching, color-correction, illustration


  • my illustration for Us Them Poems ©BookThug