WELCOME
Good day and welcome to the Creative Writing diary of Emil Karoly Papp.
Emil has had a keen interest in all visual outlets from when he was born claiming later that his first brushstrokes were make with his umbilical cord.
Since then he has made many things and has had some achievements to boot.
In his High School career his drawing and painting got him to the top 30 of his year and later in university awarded him bursaries to pursue the world inside himself. At the end of two thousand and six just after marketing, branding and publishing his as well as his peer's graduate show (a great success) he pushed out into the wide world with hopes and aspirations aplenty. During the beginning of 2007 he discovered the world of visual communication, branding and publishing. In between he found a small amount of time to join fine art shows and record one or two abstract musical compositions as well. The end of 2007 during the last period in his first publishing position marked the time in which he received his first award. The award "The Designer of the year award" at a prestigious publishing house in Cape Town South Africa. After his stay he moved on to be an internationally published illustrator for clients including Mens Health. During the end of two thousand and eight he was hired to work on magazine titles for National Geographic and other projects for clients ranging from the South African Police Service, Discovery Health and Harvard University. In the start of two thousand and nine Emil was head hunted by a young design studio to take on the position of head of design..his stay was short as he began to realise that he had let his dreams to create drift further and further away.
He is now working freelance full time where he paints, draws and designs for anyone who wishes to commission him.
Due to the load of projects Emil has taken on in the last two and a half years his blog had to be split into three parts. The first and the anchor of it all being The Remorseless Metallic Shine. The other two namely The Freelance Predator's Advice (emilpappdesigner.blogspot.com) and The Management of Autocratic Suggestions (emilpappwriter.blogspot.com) (you are here) were created to showcase design work and creative writing respectively.
Welcome to the site and enjoy browsing the work on display. If you like what you see and wish to contact Emil directly please feel free to do so at emilpapp@gmail.com or on +2772 274 2587
Thank you for visiting, we hope you enjoy your time looking around.
today I wake with more sleep in my eyes..more evidence of my aging.
I remember the days of my youth with a clarity unbecoming in the old.
ever since my husband Edek passed I have been a lonely woman, I wake in the mornings an look out of my window framing a gray landscape of industrial ghosts, of broken homes and hopes.
I see nothing but despair..I work but I do not know why. I breathe but I ask you why.
i live in the Kraków ghetto. Born in 1920 with no brothers and no sisters. Thank god for that since we were in the midst of the war, it never seemed to end. Now that I am 88 I find myself wishing that it would return.
Anything other than what I have now. Anything but that which I am now.
the alarm goes off flashing 06:00a.m
It is time to go to work for me now..I must get there before Cerek is angry again.
Vika puts on some gloves for the cold outside. She kisses the photograph of Edek on the nearest coffee table and locks the door behind her. She rubs her hands outside. Mist from her warm breath leads her forward as she climbs down the stairs of her apartment block. As she moves down the flights of stairs leading to the ground she slips occasionally. Careful not to fall in fear of expensive injuries. When she reaches the ground floor she steps off the solid platform and moves onto snow in which she looses half of her legs. And She pushes on into the snow to reach the bus stop that will take her to her destination.
