But it is impossible (I guess) to know what are the impact of a publication on ffffound... Would you help me ?

If you arrive on this site and want to help me to estimate this impact, please just click on www.harmonie-interieure.com and I will see how it increase the traffic on my stats...

Beside that, I have put new visuel creations on flickr, including "La dame en noir" I am really pleased with :

Thanks a lot for the very constructive feedback I get, specially the one from Damien, I am happy to promote him here as he help me so much without waitting for anything in return...

So, in few hours (or minutes), the calendar's sale will be closed. It is thus time for me to present images of the new project I am working on...

These are varied visual explorations, that will be printed on fabrics for home decoration. I never have produced so many visuals in so little time, and this is just a start... I published them on flickr ;) This is the result of my encounter with Laurent, who wants me to design rooms for his Paris hotel...

The picture underneath is just one of them, there is a lot more to see on flickr, and please please comment on them, we need to know what you think (and be constructive, because even it is always nice read "wow", or "great dude" it is hard to really now what you think ;)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/harmonieinterieure/

So, it is time for the results of the letterpress calendar project. The original idea was to pre-sell them, without any idea of whether or not it would work. The only promotional tools I have are this blog and my other websites (www.fabienbarral.com, www.harmonie-interieure.com, cargo, behance, flickr). I hoped that it would result in a snowball effect. No Twitter, no Facebook. I'm don't really have time to be on them...but as I see the number of visits coming from Facebook, I may change my mind...

I first mentioned this project back in October and it went up for pre-sale in November. Of the 300 copies produced, we wanted to sell at least 200 and use the other ones for self-promotion as well as gifts for clients as well as friends. Of these remaining 100 copies, 30 of them are special (and I'll talk about that later, I promise) Finally, after seeing all the demand, we have already sold 230 copies; and since we have sold more than we originally set out to sell, we have 22 copies left...

What surprised me the most is that we are shipping them all around the world. There were a lot of orders from Germany (why, I'm not sure), France (of course), the United States, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. We also got orders from New Zealand, Thailand, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and India! It's amazing how small the world can seem when you have a website, it amazes me every day.

All of this motivates me to do more projects like this in the future. I have actually started a new big project with less letterpress this time around. This allows me to have more fun with layers and textures in Photoshop ; ) You can view the first images here, on flickr. Any feedback is welcome. 

So, here are the latest images (which were used in the final promotion for the product which aimed more at getting it published in a book or blog. Remember the snowball effect). Lastly, if you want one of the last 22 copies, its now or never since we won't be reprinting these ; )

www.letterpress-calendar.com

With the letterpress calendar project, it was hard to talk about other projects I work on... Some month ago I was in contact with Rossignol to design adverts for their new "Experience" ski... I am pleased to present them now...

www.fabienbarral.com

At last, we get the calendars and during the last 2 days, we have to do all the packages... As we said, orders done before december 25 will get extra cards... So, I am very pleased to have them in hands, it is a very nice feeling...

After numbering each of them, we put them in boxes... A lot of them are going to France, USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK and other European country, but we even have orders from Taiwan, South Africa, Brazil, New Zealand, India or Indonesia... Always amazing how the world is small with a web access ;)

We still have some copies for sell, around 30 copies left... So, if you want your copy, it is now or never... I have of course keep copies for myself, and these are a little special... will show you why another day...

www.letterpress-calendar.com

Not arrived ;( Next week ???? Here come a picture taken by Marek before they werre finalized (there will be a strip around each set) and send... It scares me a little to get all this ;) You still can order it... hurry up before it go (go)... you have it mind now...

www.letterpress-calendar.com

While I present you the last shots send by Marek, the calendar should be in big box and coming from Poland to France... They should took 3/4 days to travel if we are lucky, so on friday we can send the first orders...

I am very please to saw all the colors now, I am very please of the result and contrast between the cold colors of winter and spring to the hot colors of summer and fall... I am as impatient as you are to have them in hand...

While I write this, I am listening a new REM song wich sounds amazing... and if you check the official site www.remhq.com you have access to another song, discovere, you can see a nice trailer here & listen to the first single here... REM understand than in 2011 it is big giving a lot that you will attrackt people... the time of one single at a time is over...

www.letterpress-calendar.com