Pub is here!

And it’s a girl!!
The first issue of Pub, the CalArts graphic design students publication,
is now available! It is for sale online, check Pub’s website now!!

summer time at Stripe L.A.

School is over, at last!!
Before going home for a more than deserved vacation, I’m a “summer associate” at Gail Swanlund Jon Sueda’s studio in Eagle Rock, Stripe L.A. It is a lot of fun and we’re collaborating on exciting projects.

Phonetic Alphabet

In Jon Sueda’s typographics class we had to create a phonetic alphabet and use it on poster. In France all the phonetic alphabets are based on first names, I decided to create mine with my friends’ names, the letter forms comne from pictures of each of them.

10 silkscreened prints

Exercice de style

Typographic exercice based on Raymond Queneau’s Exercice de Style in Jon Sueda’s typographic class. Those two posters are the result of a lot of experiment based on the ignorance version of Queneau’s story.

Bartleby

Last Seminar assignment for this year, provided by Ed Fella and Michael Worthington!! We had to design a metaphoric poster for “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville. The process was very interesting because we first had to find 8 visula metaphors, then 8 typographic metaphors and finally combine them on a 30/40 inches “kickass” poster. This poster is very dense and every graphic element is justified and was taken from my metaphoric studies of Melville’s story.

digital print

TSHIRT show

Annual CalArts graphic design department TShirt Show on April 5th at 7.30pm in Tatum!!! 70 different designs submitted by current students, faculty members and alumni printed on over 700 tshirts, here’s mine!!

File poster

Poster co-designed with Victor Hu during Toffe’s workshop.
The assignement was to use a word that is used both in english and in french and use the duality of the meaning in the two languages as a start for the design.

type sample book

Type sample book for Adrien Frutiger’s Avenir mixed with Romeo and Juliet, assignment for Jon Sueda’s typographics class.

The map of Graphic Design today

For this seminar assignement directed by Louise Sandhaus, we were asked to make the map Graphic Design today. I immediatly thought that I didn’t want to have a static represantation of graphic design because I think that it is constantly evolving and in motion. I decided to create a card game because I believe that every designer has control of his work with his own technics and influences. I was interested in the idea of actually having the “graphic design” in my hands and playing with it to try to find an accurate combinaison. There are three different sorts of cards, the basis of Graphic Design (typography, collaboration, communication etc…) the technics (scale, contrast, drawing, collage etc…) and the actions (teaching, brainstorming, researching etc…). You can litterally play with the cards and connect any of them together.

Reinventing Julie

20/30 inches (50/76 cm) poster realized in Seminar, faculty Lorraine Wild and Michael Worthington.
This poster was really a hugge turning point for me, it was the first time since I arrived at CalArts that I really felt that I actually achieved something in my work. It was also my first very positive crit!

We didn’t really get a brief for this assignement but a list of questions written by Paul Theck for his Cooper Union students. We were suppose to use these questions as a starting point for a piece of graphic design. I first selected the questions that I thought were interesting and finally kept 2: why are you here and why are you doing this. These questions were completly relevant to me because I mooved from France to go to school. So I am here and I am doing this to become a better designer so I’ve created a list of rules to try things I don’t usually do in my work in order to put myself in a completly new situation.
This poster was also the first piece that I really had fun working on at CalArts.