Artist, designer, professor. He represents a generation of ceramists who believe that the technological process should be intentionally and deliberately disturbed by the designer in order to obtain a form that shows the relationship between the process and piece of work. Szwed is involved in applied design and conceptual design, as well as education in the field of industrial design. His works are a collage of technical knowledge, sensitivity and creativity. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce and Design Management at the Da Vinci Collegium in Poznan. For many years, he was a close assistant of Marek Cecula - educated under his watchful eye and gaining knowledge by witnessing the works of Modus Design, as well as accompanying him during the creation of Design Centrum Kielce and Cmielow Design Studio. At School of Form of SWPS University in Warsaw, he runs his own ceramics studio and is a professor in the domestic design department. His works have been shown at prestigious design festivals and exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including Designblok, London Design Festival, V&A Museum, Gdynia Design Days, Museum Europaischer Kulturen, and others. Since 2020, Arkadiusz is a part of Glitch Lab collective.