Magdalena Marchocka’s Rough Digital Illustrations Blend Typography and Form
Polish illustrator Magdalena Marchocka (@magda.march) creates digital artworks that retain a hand-drawn, tactile quality. Her process deliberately preserves imperfections: she covers errors rather than erasing them, uses a single textured brush, and fills areas manually. Typography is central to her compositions, with lettering serving as the structural backbone rather than an accessory. Her experiments include the 36 Days of Type project and sinuous letter sets. Her imagery balances soft, squishy forms, bold colors, and patterns featuring plants and animals, while lettering interacts with illustration, branding, and editorial design. Notable projects include the series “Illustration — prints,” “A Better World,” and packaging for Zao Coffee. Marchocka’s work blurs the line between letter and figure, turning letters into characters and glyphs into botanical elements. Animation, when present, extends this living alphabet. Her approach invites a re-reading of typography as a vibrant, tender, and surprising material beyond textual function.
Key facts
- Magdalena Marchocka is a Polish illustrator.
- She works primarily in digital but maintains an analog approach.
- She covers errors instead of erasing them.
- She uses a single old brush that gives grain to the stroke.
- Her typographic experiments include 36 Days of Type.
- Her series include 'Illustration — prints' and 'A Better World'.
- She designed packaging for Zao Coffee.
- Her work treats letters as characters and glyphs as botanical elements.
Entities
Artists
- Magdalena Marchocka
Locations
- Poland