Festival 2026

Yes, this is the moment. We are unveiling the visual identity for the 2026 Łódź Multicultural Festival. This year, we invited the Łódź-based duo Mean Collective to collaborate with us.

Witold Gretzyngier is a graphic designer and visual artist specializing in the creation of posters, visual identities for cultural events, branding, animations, music album covers, and publications. He co-leads the Spatial Graphic Design Studio at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.

Klaudia Bednarz is a storyteller and strategist who works at the intersection of words, images, and experience. She comes from the fashion industry, where for years—including as Chief Operating Officer—she helped build brands, learning their inner workings from the inside: the processes, people, and emotions that shape their identity. A Polish philologist, she treats language as a medium in her work with brands—a tool for storytelling, building meaning, and fostering relationships. She creates and leads workshops and educational sessions that blend a strategic perspective with sensitivity to cultural and aesthetic contexts.

Together, they founded Mean Collective, a creative studio that carries out a variety of cultural and commercial projects on a daily basis. In 2024, they launched the Friends&Design initiative, which focuses on the creative industry and organizes events, workshops, and exhibitions related to graphic design, bringing the creative community together and strengthening the local scene.