Jonathan Zawada (born 1981) is an Australian multidisciplinary artist, designer and music-video director whose work spans painting, digital image-making, installation and product design. 
He gained prominence creating record-sleeve artwork, winning ARIA Awards for The Presets' "Apocalypso" and Flume's "Skin", and has exhibited internationally. 
Zawada designed the 2018 "Metamathemagical" projection for the Sydney Opera House sails and created the CGI/AI artwork and videos for Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke's album "Tall Tales" (2025).
Early life and career.
Zawada was born in Perth, Western Australia, and is largely self-taught. 
He began professional graphic-design work in Sydney in the early 2000s. His first solo shows "Semantic Webs" (2005) and "Boolean Values" (2008) at Monster Children Gallery reportedly sold out and later toured to Melbourne. 
In late 2010 he relocated to Los Angeles and staged "Over Time" at Prism Gallery a series of digital landscapes from manipulated graph data painted on linen.
Collaborations.
Zawada created the floral cover and full visual campaign for Flume's "'Skin", winning the 2016 ARIA Award for Best Cover Art. The partnership continued with pop-up exhibitions in Los Angeles and Sydney and, in 2024, the immersive installation "Every dull moment (EDM)" at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Zawada has collaborated with Mark Pritchard on "MP Productions EP 1", and along with Thom Yorke on "Tall Tales" (2025). For "Tall Tales", Zawada designed the artwork and videos, a feature film version of which was screened on 8 May 2025 the day before the album's release.
Zawada created animated visualisers for Röyksopp's "Profound Mysteries" trilogy.
Critical reception.
Writers note Zawada's blending of analog and digital, artificial and natural. 
Stephen Todd, wrote in the Australian "Financial Review" that he sees the world as a "metamathemagical place where science and sensuality, the rational and the emotional, collide."
For Pritchard and Yorke's multimedia project "Tall Tales", Jazz Monroe at "Pitchfork" called Zawada the duo's "informal third member". Fermín Cimadevilla at motion design website "Motionographer" wrote that the accompanying feature‑length film "evokes a distinct atmosphere dreamlike yet disorienting" and stated that it defies cliche and AI art trends.
Design press have likewise commended his album packaging. Megan Williams, writing in "Creative Review", described the AI‑assisted sleeve for Pritchard's "MP Productions EP 1" as "distorted and deformed to surreal effect" and "a bizarre collage of incongruous shapes and textures", adding that it "casts a wry glance at the very technologies that created it."