MAPS & ILLUSTRATION & GRAPHIC DESIGN & SURFACE DESIGN & BOOK COVERS & CURIOUS THINKING

︎︎︎ email vikki@veekee.ca
︎︎︎ instagram @mezzalunastudio / @veekeeweekee

Vikki Wiercinski is a graphic designer, illustrator, ceramicist and printer.

Vikki Wiercinski (she/her) finds herself somewhere between design, art, and craft. With an interest in analog processes and digital results, she makes unexpected and colourful print and digital design for arts non-profits, publishers, small businesses and larger brands.

As a visual designer with roots in journalism working on everything from murals to maps to book covers, and in multiple mediums, she always puts her signature energetic and decidedly un-boring style into play.

Vikki creates designs for the risograph paper goods and silkscreened textiles of Mezzaluna Studio.

Vikki is first-generation Polish-Canadian. She shares her time between Edmonton, Alberta and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

also an artist:

Vikki maintains a studio practice rooted in risograph printing, drawing and ceramics. Her visual art practice has resulted in two public art commissions installed in 2016 and 2019. 

community work:

Vikki was the lead organizer of the Royal Bison Fair, an independent art, maker and design fair in Edmonton, Canada, from 2010 until the fair’s retirement in 2023. 

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Noteable Projects / Selected CV

Neon Sky
Mural
Public Art Commission
Edmonton Arts Council • 2019

Midnight Dispatch
Surface Design for Concrete
Public Art Commission
Edmonton Arts Council • 2016

Artist In Residence
Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada • 2018
Arteles Centre, Finland • 2017

Surface Designer
Mezzaluna Studio
2015-present

Instructor 
DES 597 | Design Management: Solo Studio Projects
University of Alberta
Faculty of Art and Design
2023 - Present

Lead Organizer
Royal Bison Art & Craft Fair
2010-2023

Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication)
University of Alberta
Faculty of Art and Design
2006

Selected Press

Women in Canadian Design Feature • 2019

Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2021
Edify Magazine • 2021

Exhibitions

Wemories: Eighty Seven Memories of West Edmonton Mall
THE MALL
Mitchell Art Gallery at MacEwan University
2023

Hanging Arc No. 2
ORNAMENT AND CRIME
Alberta Craft Council
2023-2024


Awards

Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund Award
Edmonton Arts Council
2022

Designer of the Year (Maker)
Western Living Magazine • 2017

Top 40 Under 40
Edify Magazine • 2021


Funding

Creator’s Reserve Grant
Edmonton Arts Council
Spring 2020

CIP Travel Grant
Edmonton Arts Council
for travel to Hameenkyro, Finland
September 2017

CIP Travel Grant
Edmonton Arts Council
for travel to Banff, Canada
September 2018