Filip Pagowski, A Retrospective

Ty I Ja (You and I) was a monthly magazine in Poland in the 1960’s. It was what we call today a lifestyle magazine and it was the funnest and most colorful and adventurous of all the press at the time in the communist Poland. The original art director Roman Cieslewicz, eventually became an art director for the French Vogue and Elle magazines. Each issue had a cover done by one of the most creative graphic artists working at that time in Poland. It was quite an honor to be chosen for the job. Of course I wasn’t, but my father Henryk Tomaszewski was. And it was he who decided to collaborate with me. We both just saw Hard Day’s Night, The Beatles movie and were quite enamored of it…