John Pobojewski is an intermedia artist/designer focusing on blending the worlds of movement, print, sound, video, and generative art.
John is a principal at the studio 3st since 2003, together with Rick Valicenti and Bud Rodecker. In 2007, John received unique recognition as one of Print Magazine’s New Visual Artists: 20 under 30.
John has also received recognition from the STEP 100, The Type Directors Club of New York, AIGA, and Graphis, and his work has appeared in many publications including ID Magazine and IdN Magazine. Selections of John’s work at Thirst are included in the permanent collections of Chicago Design Archive, the Denver Art Museum and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum. He has presented at TEDxBGSU, SEEK Conference and Mobile Processing Conference in 2011, lectured at several schools throughout the United States, and has judged several design competitions including the Type Directors Club TDC 53 in New York.
In 2009, he formed Moving Design together with Rick Valicenti, which creates initiatives to elevate communication around our most pressing social and environmental issues. Moving Design is a coalition of designers and artists, working with community partners and leading initiatives that inspire change through the power of design.
As a musician, John has performed across the United States, as a founding member of the Base4 Percussion Quartet, with duo Nothing in Common, and as part of Mark Applebaum’s Metaphysics of Notation project at Stanford University in 2010.
John is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication and a Bachelor of Music in Performance. He currently lives outside of Chicago with his lovely wife Therese.