October 2007

Design....
posted on October 28th at 0.50 pm from home, listening Cinematic Orchestra ma fleur
I spend the last 2 weeks over busy... today, I rest, play with Thaïs, watch a movie, take a nap, eat a pizza... and 10pm, back in front of computer, alone, headphones... I take a look at the web, but no, tonight I want to do something for free, without timetable, without brief, without reason, without need... So, I interpret these 2 sentenses that I so true for me...

So... tomorrow, I start a new project, with a brief, with timetable...etc ....etc...

But after... I prepare something new, I want to see my graphic design work differently... I just need time, I want to be in HARMONY...
Traduction : Les designers (graphistes) ont pour but d'être aimé, pas d'être compri... / Le Graphisme doit seduire, donner forme, et, le plus important, évoquer une réponse émotionelle...
Lunatic age promo album + digipack album
posted on October 22th at 11.49 pm from home, listening Cinematic Orchestra ma fleur
After working on the double digipack version of the album, and the 12 pages booklet, I just did the design of the promotional version.

Why stay simple when you can do complicate things? As record's collector myself, why just put the sleeve at the right size when I have material to do an "alternative" version?... Hopfully, the band follow me on that kind of things...

Faut dire que j'ai à ma dispo le superbe travail photo d'Eric Canto qui a fait des portraits que je trouve très puissants... Ci dessous la pochette de l'album et des "morceux" de l'intérieur du digipack...

Also, I have all the amazing pictures taken by Eric Canto who did very powerfull portraits of the band... Here comes the album sleeve and "parts" of the inside of the digipack...

le myspace du groupe pour découvrir leur musique >>
ou la page virb, ça marche aussi...

the myspace of the band or virb page to discover the sound of the band...

C'est tellement vrai
posted on October 15th at 9.30 pm from home, listening Piers Faccini
It's rare that a commercial tells exactly what I feel... it is the case of this one...
Traduction en français : Parfois, il est difficile d'exprimer ce que l'on ressent. Les gens pensent que l'on peut être créatif sur demande... mais ça ne marche pas comme ça. Le plus souvent, les idées jaillisent d'elle-même. Un mélange de tout ce qui vous passe par la tête. On ne sait jamais quand ça arrive. Mais quand c'est le cas, c'est vraiment magique. C'est aussi simple que ça... et aussi difficile à la fois.
Syria Textile exhibition - Textile art museum of Clermont-Ferrand
posted on October 14th at 00.07 am from home, listening Anoushka Shankar - A perfect rain
I read on the evasion blog this sentence : "A lot of graphic designers are good. The best are the ones who met the good clients".

It is so true concerning the Textile art Museum of Clermont-Fd, and the projets I realized for them with mediafix. (see also : les invitées, les Amish, Terre du peuple rouge, Tisser le paradis, Reine de Saba)

La preuve encore avec cette nouvelle exposition sur les techniques textiles en Syrie. Même si les délais étaient horriblement courts (3 semaine entre la fourniture des éléments et le vernissage de l'exposition) pour une telle quantité de travail (l'affiche, l'invitation, 10 calicots en tissu de 2x1,5m et 15 cartels 20x30 cm qui expliquent toute l'expo), c'était encore une fois un vrai bonheur de travailler sur ce genre de projet.

Another proof is this new exhibition about textile art in Syria. Even if the timetable was so short (3 weeks from first meeting with client to opening night), specially for so much work (poster, invitation card, 10 textile displays of 2x1,5m and 15 20x30cm cardboard displays); it was again a pleasure to work on such a project.

Tout d'abord car je me sens dans mon élément... Le but est de faire du beau, tout en résumant en 1 visuel et 1 principe graphique toute l'essence de l'exposition.

Il n'y a pas de contraintes commerciales comme en publicité... il faut donner aux gens l'envie de venir, ce qui est totalement différent que de leur donner envie d'acheter...

Ensuite, pour la confiance que m'apporte l'équipe du musée pour un projet comme cela, une véritable collaboration... Ils me présentent l'exposition, je m'en imprègne, et je le retranscris visuellement...

Firstly because I feel myself in the right place (can I say that?)... The aim is to do a beautiful work, but also to sum up in 1 image all the exhibition...

There is no commercial purposes as in publicity... the aim is to give people the envy to come, and not to buy...

Also, I like these projects because the team of the museum so trust in me, it is a real collaboration... They present me the exhibition, I feel it and levae me freedom to express it visually...

Merci donc à mediafix et à Christine, Marie-Bénédicte, Sophie, FX et Ludo/GDAO le superman de l'impression ;)

So, thanks (againà to mediafix and Christine, Marie-Bénédicte, Sophie, FX and Ludo/GDAO the superman printer...
Yoga CD project
posted on October 09th at 1.02 am from home, listening Fink- So long
These are the 10 stickers of the Yoga CD project I am working on... For more info, check setember month archive...
Textiles en Syrie
posted on October 08th at 4.30 pm from home, listening Anoushka Shankar - Breathing under water
This is the poster I design for the new exhibition presented in the textile art museum of Clermont-Ferrand. I am designing the invitation, as the displays (25) that will explain all presented pieces inside the museum. A mediafix project.
moreYELLOW and Powercore
posted on October 02th at 2.53 pm from home, listening Anoushka Shankar - Breathing under water
As you maybe know, I work for a while with moreYELLOW, I did the truform and concrete wave project with this California Agency.

We just bring a new version of the web site online, with a lot of new projects to see. Especially the powercore project, and the web site.

 

 

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