Digital illustrations for various projects and clients.

Various catalog spreads, packaging design and advertising material

Illustrative promotional event posters and banners.

Original vector illustration and typography by Marie Poliak.

Marie is the conceptual designer and creative director of the
Heavy Meta Dragon art car currently on tour across North America.

Heavy Meta is a 30’ long, 19’ tall metallic dragon vehicle with interactive fire, sound, kinetic, and light components. Built atop a GM bus, the project is entirely designed and fabricated in Toronto. Its skin is clad in hand-cut, hand-welded sheet metal, and its wings and mouth articulate and shoot fire. Destined for Burning Man, and located in Toronto when not on tour around North America, Heavy Meta is Canada's largest art car. It has appeared at music festivals, Maker Faires, and regional burns in New York, Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The art car was designed by Marie Poliak, a Toronto based artist who also did the creative direction for The Prodigal Swan.

Project Lead: Kevin Bracken

Fabrication Lead: Matt Von Wilde

Key build contributors: Patrick Vipond, Stacy Campbell, Seth Hardy, Christiane Yerex, Ellis Briery, Coleston Pluzak

Logos and Branding 

Original watercolor portraits.

With a passion for fashion and apparel, Marie has worked with private labels, licensed vendors, and leading manufacturers to create eye-catching garments that have seen the shelves of thousands of stores across the US and Canada.

The Prodigal Swan was a collaborative art piece by Dust to Dust collective. Marie created original concept art and aided the building of the mobile sculpture. The Prodigal Swan made a public debut at the Burning Man arts festival in 2016. 

Illustrations commissioned by the oceans department of Greenpeace USA. CATO is a annual guidebook that compares seafood sustainability between major retailers in the United States.