Illustrator. Designer. Teacher.
Karku is a graphic designer and lecturer, specializing in Typography, Branding and Illustration.
Originally from Poland, Karku studied illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland and Visual Communication at the Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland.
With over 20 years of industry experience, Karku started his professional career as an illustrator and storyboard artist. He has worked for several international ad agencies (including McCann Erickson, TBWA, Lowe Lintas, Young&Rubicam) working on storyboards and commercial illustrations.
Karku currently teaches a variety of graphic communication design and illustration courses at Lahti Academy of Liberal and Fine Arts. His goal is to teach students that design is both a conceptual and a practical process that happens when great ideas are visualised using type, images and other materials.
While teaching and designing is his primary job/function by day, Karku also enjoys hitting the gym and trying to save the earth by eating veggies.