Urbaniec studied art in Wroclaw and Warsaw and became a poster designer and commercial artist.
He refers to the interwar avant-garde: geometry combined with photography, while colors are reduced to black, white, and red.
Examples of how Urbaniec combines senses in his works are Nie hałasuj niepotrzebnie, Chroń ręce.
Urbaniec's style conveys simple and powerful messages; often with the use of ingenious and humorous devices, as well as painterly gestures with elaborate metaphors.
His Mona Lisa CYRK poster, which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, was honored with a postage stamp issued in 2002 by the Polish post office.