Domestic violence - part 2

Our A1 posters printed on paper.

Domestic violence

My friend Isabelle Gondran and I entered a poster competition on the topic of Domestic Violence.

We submitted the poster in portrait and landscape formats. We use a domestic interior that portrays a quiet, innocent and static scene in opposition to the domestic items that reveal to be criminal weapons within a household.

Heather Copling's business card - Final artwork

Front

Back

At the end, Heather chose route 3 and I designed her business card.

Proposal for the identity of a Hair Artist

Route 1

Route 2

Route 3

My friend Heather Copling - a Hair Artist - asked me to design an identity for herself. Knowing her, I tried to define an appropriate tone voice that reflects her personality and hair expertise. Contemporary, light, artistry, floral and handmade were my inspiration to come up with 3 different routes.

Route 1: The organic and volatiles shapes are an abstract representation of hair flying in the air.

Route 2: A calligraphic and fluid version of hair that represents her initials

Route 3: A more modern interpretation of herself with psychedelic and sharp shapes

16.

16 is the number of the letters that composes my last name. Every graphic designer has experienced the joy of branding her/himself. I've been developing a marque for myself.

An afternoon at the V&A

I spent a couple of hours at the V&A this weekend to go to see an exhibition called Decode.

It just ended last sunday. Here is the synopsis of the exhibition that you can find on the V&A website:

The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works.Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.

I just posted some pictures of my favourite projects, especially the ones that involves synesthesia (the production of a sense impression related to one sense by stimulating another sense). How can we translate a sound into visual elements? Universal everything give us one of their interpretation. I also enjoyed the interactive projects where I was painting a blank digital canvas only with the motions of my body.

Photoshop advert

I love when craft meets high technologies.

“As real as it gets” says this advert for the new Adobe Photoshop CS4.

A picture that I found in a good design blog www.visualstreal.com

a screenprinting sunday

How lovely is to wake up on a sunday morning for a screenprinting session.

It happened at the Print Club from 11am to 4pm. A good idea to get away from your computer and having a hands-on experience of printing your artwork on different types of paper and with inks that you would never be able to get from a regular house printer.

Green has several meanings. Each meaning could be illustrated by a particular tone of green. I decided to use the different key words that reflect green and laid them out within the green spectrum.

Green and imagery

Some random green images I picked today!

Green - a collaborative thought

Today is St Patrick's day. I asked my colleague to give me an image that features the colour Green. Jo went for Lady Gaga's insane outfit, Daisy imagines Jesse and myself driving this cute "pea" truck, Matt gave me Kermit the frog and finally Kate offered me two of her shots she took herself: a nice close-up of Peacock feathers and a psychedelic jelly fish. Thanks Creative Interpartners!

Origami - Part2

1 - Magdalena Czarnecki
2 - Change
3- Jurlique unfolds

4-La Companie de Provence

Origami has been so trendy lately. Folding in a sophisticated manner some piece of paper is a good means to make well-engineered packaging that would be used again in order to have a go with origami and convey an important message like saving the trees of the planet.

Pantone _ The compilation

My colleague gave a pantone mug to everybody at work for Christmas. I received the dark blue mug (286C). It was such a thoughtful and appropriate gift. I am obsessed with colour and I therefore love Pantone. So I decided to compile visuals where pantone has been used on different media. From the most obvious such the Home paint to the most brilliant use I just discovered: the Make-up packaging from Renata Viega. If anyone has seen other uses of Pantone colours, please let me know!

Bread & Butter

I am enjoying working on a new project which is firstly designing the brand identity of a coffee shop located in France. Hopefully, later-on, I will extend the brand onto the different media of the coffee shop. The coffee shop Bread & Butter will be a cozy place that aims to attract all members of families by serving British food specialties anytime during the day. The branding of Bread & Butter is directly influenced by British culture. I got inspired by the polka dots and liberty pattern that characterise the English style such as Cath Kidston or Emma Bridegewater.

When design encounters make-up

I just discovered on TheDieline website this lovely packaging project designed by Renata Viega. The pantone brand on mugs was a great success. The concept has been extended by Renata Viega through a range of cosmetics products. I really appreciate the Pantone brand on make-up insofar as this design is useful to describe the product on itself.

Pica Pica Cover Magazine

Submission of the project : Designing the front and back cover of Pica Pica Magazine on Thursday 25 February at 12.50am. Here is the result.

Pica Pica - Make Sew Colour Bake Cut Paste Knit Create

My boyfriend and I decided to enter a competition that has been posted on the website http://www.jotta.com/jotta/. We are asked to design the cover of a magazine called Pica Pica http://www.picapicamag.co.uk/. This is their first printed issue that will be screenprinted in 3 colours. The tagline of the magazine is Make Sew Colour Bake Cut Paste Knit Create and the theme of their publication aims to promote craft and hand-made skills. Here are some shots of experimentations we did with paper, thread, scissors, glue, nails, hammer and a lot of fun.

Soul Game from Sophie Darly

One of my freelance job was to design the CD case of a Jazz singer: Sophie Darly. http://www.myspace.com/sodarly. First I designed a branding identity for Sophie Darly that has been applied on a business card, CD pack and promotional flyers. It was the first I was asked to design a CD pack cover and I thought it was a challenging project because this is similar to design a magazine cover; the imagery of the front cover of a CD pack needs to be very powerful in order to catch the attention to people. After presenting a couple of ideas to Sophie, she picked this very strong visual that moves radically from the conservative styles of traditional Jazz CD packs. I think she was right to make this decision because she got rewarded and her CD is now sold at one of the biggest French music retail store (La Fnac) in 2 different branches (Forum des Halles, Champs Elysées) located in Paris.

Corps à Corps - Short movie from Julien Ralanto

My brother shot his 2nd short movie last summer and I was glad to be asked to design the poster of his movie entitled Corps à Corps (whose English translation is "Hand to hand"). The movie is about a young woman who is questioning her gender identity after getting molested by two strangers. The composition of the poster is based on a segmentation of 3 crucial moments of the movie that emphasizes the complexity of the relationships between the characters.

Corps à Corps will be projected on Thursday 25 February on a boat in Paris: La Péniche Cinéma (Canal de l'Ourcq, Parc de la Villette-métro porte de la Villette ou Porte de Pantin) Festival Courts-Bouillons - Free entry.

From origami to props

Over the weekend I was working on a project that required some crafty skills. I then decided to make origamis. While I was doing some research on the topic, I luckily bumped into the website of an amazing photographer called Gregoire Alexandre who transformed a section of the colorama into a giant origami. Amazing concept, amazing picture!

His style is very unique and innovative. His photography is based on experimenting with the entire space of the set and challenging the initial purposes of props and photographic devices.

Have a look at http://www.gregoirealexandre.com/

Reflection

Hello.

I am a graphic designer based in London and today - Tuesday 23 February 2010 - I decide to start blogging. I am interested in pretty much everything that relates to artistic activities such as design, visual communication, painting, movie, music, dance, fashion, architecture, photography.

Aesthetics, yes, is a good word to define my interest.

I spend time during the day to look around and observe my surroundings in the quest for a source of inspiration.

How often I bump into an amazing website... I like the idea of blogging, sharing and recording the goodies.

So here it is.

Let's blog.