Pick #3 — Miłosz Chudy designs music like it lives in a parallel Poland

Miłosz Chudy doesn't have a portfolio in the traditional sense — he has a music industry archive. Scroll through bychudy.com and you're moving through Polish hip-hop culture over the past decade: album covers, tour posters, artist identity systems, stage visuals, merch, vinyl sleeves. The work is dark, maximalist, and unapologetically specific to a place and scene.

The standout is the Hotel Maffija 2 album cover — a crumbling white neoclassical mansion splitting open, overrun by crystals, roots, and luminous magenta light, all rendered in a dense illustrated hand that sits somewhere between tattoo flash and Ralph Bakshi. It's the kind of image that makes you wonder how many revision rounds it took to hit that exact level of controlled chaos.

Chudy also works across formats without dropping the thread: the Ramówka project packages a SBM compilation inside a meticulously photographed CD case, framed in late-summer-forest light. The Pierwszy Swag w Polsce piece is a grainy archival photograph of a 1989 Warsaw queue, photomontaged with a Supreme logo — quietly pointed, genuinely funny. His photography carries the same editorial instinct as his illustration, which is rare.

Featured in Muzli's Top 100 Designer Portfolio Websites of 2026 1, alongside studios and designers with global reach. For a single-person operation focused almost entirely on Polish music, that's a signal worth noting.