Zuzanna Konieczna-Czerwinska, also known as Zu, is a Polish illustrator and pattern artist inspired by nature. She creates colourful flat illustrations using calming palettes and flowing shapes, combining modern and vintage influences. Her work spans illustration, pattern projects, graphic design and editorial collaborations.

Zu's work is characterised by calming, vibrant colours and wavy, organic shapes. Real and imaginary plants coexist within her visual world, built around an empathy-led aesthetic stance. Her style blends minimalism with a touch of maximalism and explores the fusion of modern and vintage aesthetics. The portfolio features flat-style nature and botanical compositions with a considered, restrained palette.

Flat digital illustration with a focus on nature and botanical subjects. Background in graphic design - including publication layout for Zawsze Pomorze and visual communication for Fundacja Widzialne - applied to enhance compositional quality in illustration work.

Magazines and online stores (documented active collaborations). The portfolio features product and packaging surface application contexts. Open to collaboration with brands prioritising people, animals, and the environment. Current professional work includes publication design (Zawsze Pomorze local newspaper) and design for a human rights NGO (Fundacja Widzialne).

Based in Poland; trained and working as a graphic designer. Holds two professional design positions while building a parallel illustration and pattern career through Instagram and portfolio work. Actively seeking pattern and illustration collaborations.

Flat nature and botanical illustrations arranged as surface patterns - wavy organic forms, real and imaginary plant subjects, soft restrained palettes. The portfolio features allover botanical compositions with a calm, modern-vintage sensibility. Selected placements indicate active interest in product surface and print-on-product applications.