Ana

Managing Director

Has worked for: Dr Irena Eris, Cholinex, Coldrex, Ketoprom, NiQuitin, Sensodyne, Aquafresh, Persen, Breathe Right, Kompania Piwowarska, Vox, Prestige, Solaris, Canappka and many others.

The strictest and most energetic woman on the team. She is the brain in charge of MINIMA. She takes phone calls, arranges meetings, convinces, counts, estimates, fixes, helps, dreams up and makes the best coffee in the World. As a young girl she wanted work at a tapestry shop. She was mostly interested in the power that wielding a long, wooden meter would give her. When she’s not working she sings. Luckily, she’s extremely assiduous. When asked about the silliest idea that’s ever crossed her mind, she starts to hum an old tune. Nobody has had the courage to repeat the question.

 

Kris

Creative Director

Has worked for an abundance of both large and small brands. Some of these include: Skoda, Lech, Fortis Bank, Heyah, Algida, Amica, Hugo, Kronopol, Vox, Prestige, Canappka, Dr Irena Eris, Coldrex, Nutricia, Solpadeine, GSK and Ketonal – Bronze Effie 2008 for the Ketonal Lek campaign in the category of "Medication" (awarded for the most effective marketing communications operation).

Minima’s ruler of design. One of the founding fathers of the whole venture. He’s been interested in colors and shapes ever since he was a child. In primary school he did research on what fish look like covered in black ink. Turned out they don’t. During the day he sleeps. Somewhere in between he finds the time to do a great job as a graphic artist. When asked about the silliest idea he’s ever had he replied that he’d have to think about it. We’ve been waiting four years for his answer. He’s managed to move three times and change his phone number.
 

Zbych

Head of Copy

Wrote and thought up several things, for several known brands. He confesses to having worked for: Lech, Heyah, Nivea, Skoda, TUI, BZWBK, Microsoft, Wavin, Holiday Inn, Dog In The Fog, Lipton, Lisner, Chio, Airwaves, Pilsner Urquell.

In advertising since his eighteenth birthday. A copywriter, fan of the word, mostly known for his laziness. Zbych also wrote several things outside the realm of advertising. His work was published in “Nowa Fantastyka”, and he singlehandedly ran an Internet zine. At the peak of his popularity he had 7 subscribers. He wrote a book, published one copy of it independently and gave it to a woman as a gift. He doesn’t write books anymore. Says it’s pompous. A closet-anarchist, subversive free-thinker and founder of several self-adoring cults. A high-school ping-pong champion and Monty Python addict. When asked about the silliest idea he’s ever had, he simply smiles… condescendingly.
 

Tomek

Strategic Planner & Copywriter

Has been responsible for campaign Big Ideas and texts for, among others: Heyah (Golden Arrow 2006 – „Simlocki Game Over” campaign), Geriavit Pharmaton (The Diamond Awards 2007: Best in The World 2007 & Golden Arrow 2007 – “Witalność I Pasja”), Świat Zdrowia, NiQuitin, NIVEA, Dr Irena Eris, Aquafresh, Aspirin, Sensodyne, NutriDrink, Coldrex, Serevent. Uff... Hugo, Tui, Amica, Lipton, Crunchips, Commercial Union, Inotel, General Motors, Skoda .... 



An excellent vintage '83.  A medication addict addicted to the Internet – calls it his "specialty" to fool us. As a preschooler wanted to be Batman. He even has the fancy cape. Claims he played a key role in his own life, and is somewhat proud of the fact. When asked about the silliest idea he’s ever had, he claims the question had already been asked.
 

Jarek

Interactive Director

A man whose work makes life easier for millions of Poles, and yet, none of them seem to realize his vital contributions. A world class specialist in Ruby on Rails, PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. An employee and co-creator of many of the facilities at the auction website Allegro.

Beside his obvious professional achievements, he is also a vital contributor to endorsing world peace. During his college apprenticeship he did not blow up the United Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (Russia), even though he claims he was very close. If the world was to end he would watch the entire series of Star Trek for the 6123 time, especially episode 1524, where captain C Clark exceptionally effectively reaches light speed. He claims to have grown to like black coffee without any sugar and that he is finally ready to construct a vacuum amplifier, but doesn't know how to tell his wife about it. When asked about the silliest idea he has ever had he stubbornly claims he failed to understand the question.
 

Stasiu

Strategic Director
 
A strategist, fan of effectiveness and enthusiast of budget efficiency. Has created campaigns and strategies for brands from almost every category of products and services. He most fondlyadmits to: Tyskie, Lech, Crunchips, Heyah, NIVEA, BZ WBK, Skoda and Wrigley.

Intends to personally speak to to every person on Earth and learn to read minds. He is moderately successful in the later, although it does still require practice. During his last field test he mistook the message of "Bring the stool" for "Bring the stables" and cast grave fear on local farm owners. Anxiously awaits the dawn of spherical monitors as he thinks that only then people will truly appreciate the magic of spheric graphs. Asks too many questions and travels even more. When asked about the silliest thought that has ever crossed his mind he inconspicuously signals he has a vital presentation in Wagadugu and cannot devote any more of his time to us. 

 

Kasia

Client Manager

Has worked for Sensodyne, Parodontax, Niquitin, Breathe Right, Vox, Prestige, Canappka.

Is responsible for coordinating everything taking place inside MINIMA. Her responsibilities include screaming at the creative department, drinking coffee, screaming at the creative dept. yet again and sending the order to the clients ahead of time. She’s a graduate of culture studies, co we all thought she’s well cultured. That’s when we lost faith in the Polish system of higher education. In preschool she wanted to be Orloś in Teleekspres or Dr. Alban. She has a big heart for animals from shelters. She once adopted a puppy and has enjoyed wagging the dog ever since. Animal rights activists are urging her to stop. She has an insatiable lust for old, rusty and hardly reliable cars from days long gone. She plans on driving one of them all the way down to Monaco. She has already succeeded in keeping one running for 3 seconds. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. When asked for the silliest idea she has ever had, she leaves to repair her Trabant.
 

Szymon

Creative Designer

Has designed for brands including: Apart, Tymbark, BP, Goplana, MTP, Kubuś, Zozole, Wild Bean Cafe, Nivea, Aviko, Mlekołaki, BZ WBK, VOX furniture.

Keeps himself busy transforming colors into shapes, creating logotypes and 3D graphics. When he can’t sleep he repeats RGB values from black to white.  In preschool he wanted to become a football player. Everybody told him he was too small. Now he’s too grown. Szymon was born under a lucky star. If the World was to end, he’d design the "End of the World" logo. In primary school he finished third in an art contest about harvests. Recently his logotype “Together since 1957” beat a 1700strong competition and received an award from the European Union. Szymon believes in development. He once had an idea to eat beauty cream and powdered jelly straight from the bag. He didn’t speak for a while after that and when he came back his left eye blinked more often. When asked for the silliest idea that has ever come to his mind, he loses his mind.
 

Ziuto

Illustrator

In college he spent some time as a plotter operator. Since then he’s drawn everything without taking his pencil off the sheet of paper, and he never makes a mistake. He also makes those weird noises when he works.He claims never to have drawn anything for Coca-Cola, but after what he’s done for Canappka nobody believes him.In his free time he sets up some wine and enjoys its aging. The wine is, of course, alcohol-free. He dreams of owning his own vineyard. For now, he’s built a greenhouse and planted tomatoes. He says they’re also round, and because they’re bigger, they’re easier to pick.  If the World were to end tomorrow, he’d watch “Gone with the wind”. Thus he can be sure he spends the last day on Earth alone. The Muppets played a key part in his life. Especially the pink fuzzy sleeve that sings "manamana". When he was little, he wanted to be an African-American, mostly because of the Afro. When asked about the silliest idea he has ever had he makes like Kermit the Frog.
 

Maciej

3D Specialist  

MINIMA's very own specialist in the field of renders, spectacular visualizations and 3d models. Learned the secrets of his trade from the designers at Audi, Ford and Skoda, and later worked for private investors, developers, SCM Group, Biopharm, and Delphia Yachts.

When Maciej was a boy, he wanted to become a ninja turtle, but he couldn't decide which one, so the chance was lost. He most recently tried to attract our interest to the martial art of jujitsu, however, we still claim it's an exotic type of sushi. There is no amount of coffee in the world that could do him harm. After ten cups he starts to talk faster and that's the only side effect.He is the unofficial amateur champion of Ustka in the category of sweeping the beach smooth and the runner up in the category of dune with parting. When asked about the silliest thing that has ever come to his mind he demonstrates the wrestling move called "the arm lever". Nobody dares come up in arms.
 

Ryszard

Photographer

Designer, sculptor and illustrator, but most of all photographer. Claims to have worked for brands including: Gatta, Wola, Kronospan, Porta, John Deere, Eco Fys, Meblomak, Ecotrade, Izopol, Mar-Med, Jugema, MAW Telecon, Freziwid, Somlek, Promostars, NKT Cables, F&F, Cetco, Cerpice, Essve and a hundred or so more.
    
His first utterance was the word "luminescence". His mom felt a bit disappointed but his father decided to stay proud. Apart from the ability to freeze the world through his lens, Ryszard has one more skill he claims to have achieved an absolute world-class level in – the noble art of swinging in the hammock. We've seen him in action and we are impressed. He takes his coffee with cream claiming diffusion is picturesque. Asked about the silliest thing that has ever crossed his mind he threatens us with a flash interference. We're scared, just in case.
 

Irma

DTP Specialist

DTP operator, or our girl responsible for pantons, markers and offsets. Claims to have no fear of even the largest drops.She has proven this by working for,among others: 3M, BGŻ, Biofarm, Danone, Enea,  Dr Irena Eris, GSK, Kamis, Komputronik, Lek, MAN, Orange, PKP PR, Play, Polfa, Remes, Roche, Sanplast, Sioux i BZ WBK.

Irma's favorite drink is coffee. It's thanks to coffee that she can spend countless hours sitting still in front of her computer. She once supposedly got to the very end of the Windows screen saver. This became a turning point in her life. She's also thinking of opening a confectioner's and traveling to the Amazon, both at the same time if there's a chance. If National Geographic ever publishes photographs of alligators hunting whipped-cream covered fruitcake, it will be of her doing. Asked for the silliest thing that has ever crossed her mind she mentions something about an urgent meeting with the Japanese producer of Chinese noodles and inconspicuously points to the door.
 

Karol

DTP Specialist 

Self-appointed DTP champion. The unofficial Poznań County record-holder in porcupine tracking. A fan of colors, amateur designer. Father of a son. Inspired by a social campaign, Karol reads him the Pantone template 20 minutes every day. When he was little, he wanted to work in waste-disposal. That’s why he swiftly learned to imitate the sounds the garbage-truck that visits his neighborhood makes. Then he learned the words used by the garbage-men. Then mom intervened. In high school Karol received an award in a young poets’ competition. Apparently he had tears in his eyes when he accepted it. Now he claims that they were caused by malignant conjunctivitis, but we all know he’s a sensitive guy. He’d love to learn to play the drums well. The last time he practiced, his friendly neighbors invited the Police over, and from that moment on, Karol has wanted to play well and quietly. When asked for the silliest thought he has ever had, Karol shuts his mouth and keeps it that way.
 

Andrzej

Web Developer

Spends most of the time convincing us that the word “flash” doesn’t only mean that white blinding thingy on top of a camera. Apparently he can put this flash inside a computer and make websites move. He always does this when there’s nobody in the room, so we don’t know for sure whether to believe him. He’d love to learn the alphabet by heart. He claims nothing impresses the opposite sex more. When he’s not working, he displays the strangest fascination with cheese. When he was a child he wanted to be a lama. Andrzej doesn’t drink coffee, hasn’t combed his hair since he was in the sixth grade and doesn’t understand why we don’t take him to meetings with clients. When asked for the silliest idea he has ever had, he leaves to “mind his business”. Apparently that keeps it going pretty well.
 

Michał

Web Developer

He has worked for such brands as Aviko, Farm-Fries, Press-Service Monitoring Mediów, Cafe News, Starline International and a few more equally interesting groups.

His face displays emoticons when he smiles. Michał is fluent in things he refers to as as2, as3, pv3d and js. Nobody, apart from him is able to remember these abbreviations so we suspect he gives us new ones each day, and we still believe him like toddlers. He can slide down a slope with both feet attached to a piece of wood. He calls it snowboarding, but we’d call it something else. Ever since he had a son, he’s grown six inches and even the websites he designs run twice as fast. In preschool he wanted to be an astronaut. Now he wants to hack into NASA’s servers. We quietly support him. Hackers don’t have the fancy helmets or the tubing, and they don’t get to walk around the grounds of an airport in slow motion, but they are cool, nonetheless. When asked about the silliest idea he has ever had, he logs out of the conversation.
 

Marcin

Web Developer

Marcin has worked, among others, for Procter and Gamble, Knorr and Onet.pl. He is the co-manager of abobers.org. He won the Flexchallenge 2008 contest’s third prize.

Our Flash/Flex/Air Internet application programmer. Sounds really smart, and looks even more amazing, so we’re all satisfied. We – because we don’t have to ask how these technologies work, Marcin – because he doesn’t have to explain them to us. He’s seen the whole Internet and saved it to a floppy. One of his role models was MacGyver, so this feat wasn’t a surprise. He made the floppy using bubble gum and a Swiss army knife. He made the Swiss army knife using toothpicks and a bus ticket. We don’t want to know how he made the bus ticket. When asked about the silliest thing that has ever crossed his mind he pulls two coins out of his pockets and threatens to use them against us.
 

Greg

Web Developer

Claims he’s busy page-coding and computer-programming. We took his word for it when he began bombarding us with the words: html, php, java, cms, sql, flash, iteration. He assured us they weren’t insults. It’s his head if anything goes wrong with any of the websites we design. He’s still got his head on his shoulders. A fan of off-road and energy balls. He dreams of becoming a famous anonymous street artist. When he’s not busy, he’s busy with something else. A certain tree played a key role in his life. We know for sure it wasn’t an oak named Bartek. Despises coffee, but still drinks it. When asked for the silliest idea he has ever had, he pretends he has to answer an urgent phone call. from Azerbaijan.
 

Slow

E-mailing Specialist

Suspended somewhere between his 30th and 31st birthday.Slow can send an onslaught of emails and manage not to become a spammer. He puts this exceptional skill to good use working for a European market leader. In the past he tried to teach schoolchildren. They convinced him that this wasn’t his best idea. He thus began to digitally process everything he can lay his hands on. He’s even tried to record music using a digital camera and take photos in mp3 format. Slow’s lazy. He’s also a musician, photographer, info-tech specialist and francophone. As a child he wanted to be a butcher. He still has that specific smile. Promoting father and founder of the group Dreamland. When asked for the silliest idea he has ever had, he broods over, put on a serious face… and stays that way.
 

Jack&John

Music Producer and Vocalist

An exceptional duo. Jack is responsible for composition and production, John sings like Prince. Suffice to say that. They take full responsibility for the soundtrack of our website, as well as a few more soon-to-be-famous tracks. They are currently busy with a new record, and break the hearts of the female part of the audience during their concerts. They focus on RnB, Pop, Neo-Soul, Jazz, Funk and good food. In their free time they plan to take over the World. They want to start with the EU, move to one of its warmer parts and from there attack the rest of the World. Just imagine them as two Antonio Banderas types, with cases full of guns. The only problem is that their instrument of choice is mostly the piano. When asked about the silliest idea they’ve ever had they split and make in two separate directions.
 

Michał

Music Producer & Sound Engineer

As a director and producer, he has worked with such artists as: Tomasz Budzyński, Stanisław Sojka, Mateusz Pospieszalski, Jan Pospieszalski,  Hanna Banaszak, Eleni, Jarosław Śmietana, Jan „Izba” Izbiński, Natalia Niemen, Krzysztof Antkowiak, Piotr Kałużny, Janusz Olejniczak, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Matheo, Grzegorz Stróżniak, Thomas Sanchez. He has played bass for Arka Noego since 2000. He has recorded eleven CDs.

Has a full set of keys to the studio we sometimes make use of. He claims that he owns the studio, and the keys only look like they’re cheaply copied. The fact that he only lets us use it between two and four am with the lights off is our timetable’s fault. When he was a small he wanted to be a carpenter. He says he still can shave wood with the palm of his hand and mill it with his tongue. When asked about the silliest idea he has ever had, he swiftly begins to tune his vocal cords.
 

Mały

Music Producer & Sound Engineer

Has engineered or recorded albums for artists including: Poluzjanci, Kuba Badach, Piotr Żaczek, Ewa Bem, Kayah, The Globetrotters, Golec uOrkiestra, Ania Szarmach, Kasia Cerekwicka, Dorota Miśkiewicz, Krzysztof Ścierański.

Musician, producer, arranger and composer by day. Swears he has never composed a track which if played backward would reveal Satanist content. We’re not too sure if we believe him. We’d do it twice if we had the skill. An anti-fan of television. A lover of fresh coffee. A fanatic supporter of music. When Marcin was small he wanted to be a drummer. Then he realized that he’d have an equal amount of noise if he drove a tram. And he’d have the added bonus of sitting in public transport and having a place to put his blue-collar coffeepot. When asked about the silliest idea he has ever had, he gets up to fine tune the samovar.
 

Marcin

Translator

A linguist, and cunning at it. A man who's paid to talk. Translates text from Polish into English and the other way round. Apparently his actions inspired the creation of the Google translator. Has worked for, among others: 7th International Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Angora, Airtemys.com and has translated academic writing. As a child he tried to write fairy-tales. He got hold of his old notes recently and it turned out he precisely predicted the ending of the 7632nd episode of "The Bold and the Beautiful", the great flood of '97, the addition of pasta plates into the Pizza Hut menu and a flat bike tire. The flat is still to come – we're just warning you. He has a vivid interest in dividing by zero. He claims to have succeeded at it twice during a social event, but due to the fatigue fell asleep at the abacus and lost everything. When asked about the silliest thing that has ever crossed his mind he says it's on the tip of his tongue. No-one has had the courage to check there yet.