Andrzej Klimowski’s professional activity as an illustrator and graphic artist has always been informed by his personal experimental work in photography, painting and printmaking.

In his early career, work in the photographic darkroom and in screen-printing influenced his approach to photomontage and collage, which he further developed in book cover, poster and record sleeve design as well as press and magazine illustration. It also led to experimental filmmaking and moving graphics (film titles) for TV. His main clients have always been in the cultural sector (theatres, film distributors, TV, book publishers, the national press and the music industry). Subject matter has been literary.

More recently he has focused on narrative. Faber & Faber, for whom he designed many covers over the years in collaboration with Pentagram Design, began to publish his own books (The Depository, 1994, The Secret, 2002, and Horace Dorlan, 2007). Paradoxically as digital technology has rapidly been expanding, his production methods have undergone simplification relying on the imagination and understatement. He has turned to drawing with ink and making linocut prints. The first books were entirely picture based, whilst the last one has combined text and image, reflecting the psychic state of the main protagonist. He has also worked with Danusia Schejbal adapting modern classics into a graphic novel form (The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson), both published by SelfMade Hero and translated into many languages. His interest in film continues to influence his narrative works. In 2006 he directed a short film, The Sphinx, combining animation and live action techniques. The Irish Film Board who also produced a film based on his first book, The Depository, financed the film. 

Andrzej Klimowski’s ongoing projects have directed his research to historical and military archives.