A series of trimestrials posters for Ici l’Onde, for the season 2015-2016. Posters are printed in duotone, plus one big picture on the back, which appears when backlit. Spectacular solid colors are used : reflex blue, warm red, chrome, gold or copper.

Ralph Rugoff, guest curator of 2015 Biennale de Lyon: “The impulse to announce a clean break from the past, to instigate a rupture with tradition, is the modernist gesture par excellence. Is it possible then, that our recurring desire to declare the end of the modern era is, in fact, merely a symptom of the modernity it aspires to bury? […] La vie moderne, the 13th edition of the Biennale de Lyon, sets out to explore this possibility. Its title unavoidably evokes echoes of earlier, and perhaps more optimistic, moments in history, but rather than its potential irony, what drew me to use this title was its ambiguity.” Invited to design the visual identity of the event, my (rejected) project was to propose an oversized identity manual, playing with the principles of modernist graphic design of the 60's. Rather than applying this guidelines to the communication, the manual itself (as an abstract of ideal uses) becomes the communication. It's, of course, typeset in Neue Haas Grotesk.

Le Pigalle is a hotel in the eponymous district of Paris. The agency be-poles (Paris / New York) commissioned me to create its custom typeface, which is inspired by the vernacular signs and inscriptions of this lively and typical district. Photos © Benoît Linero

Visual identity of Zutique Productions (hip-hop, electro and world music) in Dijon. I designed a custom lettering and several patterns. Used as patchs, they form a Z in the middle of the posters. With the help of Samia Charef, intern at the studio.

In October 2014, The Scène nationale de Besançon became Les 2 Scènes : two theaters, l’Espace and le Théâtre Ledoux, joined in a single institution. The Posters of the season 2014-2015 are made with the same typefaces and color palette, with 2 rectangles moving in the format.

Thematical posters for the season 2014-2015 of the Scène nationale de Besançon. The screens are mixed during printing, to obtain several versions of the posters, superimposing the colors and the images.