“The first thing to say is maybe
that you can’t intend to make anything beautiful. It’s either beautiful or not beautiful,
it just happens to be so. I think it has more
to do with the way something is conceived,
if it’s well conceived it’s certainly beautiful,
so when we say that something is beautiful
we say that it’s well conceived.”
Anish Kapoor interviewed
by Paolo Cecchetto, 1995.
Graphic designer settled in Paris since 2008 specialized in designing books,
printed matter, visual identities, web design and signage.
Teacher in project communication at École d'Architecture de la Ville & des territoires
à Marne-la-Vallée and graphic design at École Supérieure d’Art and Design in Dijon.
Educational experiences
2008-(…) – Teacher in second and third year at École d'Architecture
de la Ville & des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée.
2010-(…) – Teacher in graphic design et ENSA Dijon,
in third and fifth year.
2012 – Layout City, three days workshop in ERBA Valence (with Guillaume Grall)
– An ideal Garden, two days workshop at École des Beaux-Arts de Beaune, burgundy.
– L’école fait vitrine, les vitrines font école, three days workshop at ENSA Dijon,
with David des Moutis and Olivier Lebrun.
2010 – Play/Stop Word Shop, one week workshop at ECV Paris, France
with the Club des chevreuils.
2009 – The process of visual communication, two days workshop
at the École des Beaux-Arts de Beaune, burgundy.
2008 – Workshop, Workfun, one week workshop in the Belgium school
Erg in Brussels, with the Club des chevreuils.
Publications
2012 – The state of bespoke typeface design in France today Ypsilon editions.
2010 – Left, Right, Up, Down, New Directions in Signage and Wayfinding, Gestalten
– Catalogue of the Prix Fernand Baudin 2009 (one winning book)
– Catalogue of the Plus beaux livres français 2009 (one winning book)
2009 – Catalogue of the Plus beaux livres français 2008 (two winning books)
2008 – Manystuff #0 More real than fiction, Nos excuses (with the Club des chevreuils)
2007 – Ink 02 Enlarge your magazine (with the Club des chevreuils)
– Ultra-étapes (Ultralab) Google Earth (text from Philippe Vasset)
– (with the Club des chevreuils)
– Ink 01 Parasites (with the Club des chevreuils)
2006 – étapes 135: Le Club des chevreuils
Exhibitions
2012 – Lettres type (collective exhibition)
The state of bespoke typeface design
in France today. Exhibition:
– at gallery My.Monkey in Nancy
– at 23rd nternational festival of posters and graphic design in Chaumont
– at Rencontres internationales de Lure
– at ATypI Hong Kong
2010 – One winning book at the Concours
des plus beaux livres français 2009 exhibited:
– at the international poster festival of Chaumont, France
– at the Anatome gallery, Paris, France
2009 – Two winning books at the Concours
des plus beaux livres français 2008 exhibited:
– at the Printing Museum of Tokyo, Japan
– at the Lieu Unique in Nantes, France
– at the international Francfort book fair, Germany
– at the international poster festival of Chaumont, France
– at the Anatome gallery, Paris, France
– at the Leipzig book fair, Germany
2008 – Reflets, collective exhibition for Manystuff in espace GHP,
Toulouse (France) with the Club des chevreuils.
2008 – My Monkey, My Network, exhbition curation and scenography
at the My Monkey gallery, Nancy (France) with the Club des chevreuils.
Conferences/Jurys
2012 – President of Jury of the DNAT in ESAM, Caen
– Jury of DNAP at ESAD, Reims
– Jury of Master 2 Editorial Design in ERG, Bruxelles
– Conférence at ERBA, Valence (with Guillaume Grall)
2011 – Jury of DSAA at ENSAAMA, Paris
2010 – President of Jury at ECV, Aix-en-provence, France
– École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, France
2009 – Pecha Kucha, Espace(s), Divan du monde, Paris, France
– École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, France
– Jury at ERG, Brussels, Belgium
2008 – Revues parlées, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
with the Club des chevreuils.
Awards
2009 – Most beautiful french book
– Fernand Baudin Price
2008 – Most beautiful french book (for two books)
Contributors
Vincent Fillon (Accords Chromatiques)
Frédéric Tacer (Guide d’architecture Paris)
Mélanie Guéret (Artistes d’Abomey)
Damien Monteau (Russian constructivist posters of the 1920s and 1930s)
Vincent Desclaux (Maisons d’architectes)
Geoffrey Pellet (Myriad-la-Vallée)
Gauthier Boutrou (Éditions Jalou)
François Girard-Meunier (Biennale de Venise)
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