Many extremely talented female students attended the graphic arts faculties, studying under the great masters of the day, but the pressures of marriage and children forced most of them to give up their artistic ambitions not long after graduating.

Today we celebrate the award-winning female artists who broke the mould. And thank goodness they did; the world is different through female eyes and their work is sublimely beautiful.

Here are just some of our very favourite female Polish poster artists…

It’s going to be hard to convey just how incredible it was to meet one of the masters of the Polish School of Posters, and one of our favourite artists - Mieczyslaw Wasilewski - or Mietek, as he introduced himself. But we did. And the meeting will forever stay with us as one of the most incredible and special meetings of our lives.