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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 28\/03\/2018 <\/div>\n
\n Rule number 1: break taboos<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n De l'art imberbe \u00e0 Freud, en passant par les r\u00e8gles bleues des publicit\u00e9s, le sexe f\u00e9minin fait honte, surtout parce que l'on l'a tant cach\u00e9. Le voici qui sort enfin de l'ombre et brise peu \u00e0 peu les tabous. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 26\/03\/2018 <\/div>\n
\n Railfreight visual identity (1987)<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n With their modern, minimalist and lively identity, Railfreight's rail freight badges will leave their mark on the British transport landscape for a long time to come. So much so, in fact, that they have become designers' favorite trains! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 05\/03\/2018 <\/div>\n
\n Gordon Young, a mason typographer!<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n For over 20 years, Gordon Young has been working on the border between art, graphic design and typography. To his credit, he has created dozens of art installations in public spaces, a forest of typographic trees, a wall of wishes in a school and this incredible Comedy Carpet in Blackpool! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 19\/06\/2017 <\/div>\n
\n Happy Helvetica to you!<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Happy birthday Helvetica! The spanish studio Husmee has invited a selection of international studios to create a tribute poster to celebrate the 60 years of the creation of the famous typography. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 30\/03\/2017 <\/div>\n
\n Evolution of the Paris metro map: from spaghetti dish to futuristic city<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A concentrate of the evolution of the Paris metro map and beyond, in which we also talk about spaghetti, beer and futuristic cities. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 13\/03\/2017 <\/div>\n
\n Oi! In love with a Brazilian ear<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Let's fly to Brazil to meet a local star. It's neither the Cristo Redentor, nor Gilberto Gil, Pel\u00e9 or even Giselle B\u00fcndchen. We will talk about curves though, but introduce you to the famous orelh\u00f5es, the Brazilian phone booth of Oi -the local phone company. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 09\/02\/2017 <\/div>\n
\n Ski trail map designer: such a cool job!<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Un m\u00e9tier rare comme le y\u00e9ti : dessinateur de pistes de ski. Sans le savoir, vous avez tr\u00e8s probablement d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu des oeuvres de Novat. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"livre<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 05\/01\/2017 <\/div>\n
\n Codex Seraphinianus: the most peculiar book in the world<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n The Codex Seraphinianus is considered by some as the strangest book ever published. A unique, beautiful, confusing... and above all indescribable art book! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 05\/01\/2017 <\/div>\n
\n Follow your passion or work with passion: a story about summit<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n How to work with passion, and what career choices to follow to avoid cracks? <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"customer-feedback\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 10\/10\/2016 <\/div>\n
\n My client is a graphic designer<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Imagining customer feedback on mythical posters. The tone is exacerbated and any resemblance to real and actual feedback\u00a0is purely coincidental. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 04\/10\/2016 <\/div>\n
\n Graphic design and children : \"They lived children ever after and had many happily !\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Adult drawings inspired by children's drawings, a diversion into surrealism and an exercise in style. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 21\/09\/2016 <\/div>\n
\n When Africa meets design<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Graphic design in Africa. From the first alphabets to contemporary issues. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 18\/07\/2016 <\/div>\n
\n Humanity as Heritage. Dialogue between Le Corbusier and Anish Kapoor<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 17 works by Le Corbusier enter the World Heritage inventory at the Tourette convent. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 09\/11\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n The Parisianer, a real Paris !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A Parisian tribute to the covers of The New Yorker, The Parisianer brings together illustrators for the front cover of a virtual magazine. Illustrating a multiple and colorful Paris. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 21\/07\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n How Pantone colors the world !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Twice a year Pantone proposes ten seasonal colours... a little technicolour deciphering from the big man of colour! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 04\/06\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n DNA and advertising marketing<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A Hong Kong advertising campaign using DNA sequencing raises questions about the link between marketing and genetics. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 24\/05\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n The genesis with pictograms<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n The genesis with pictograms <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 25\/04\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n A visit to Basel's printing museum<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A short visit to the Basel ( Switzerland ) printing museum. A unique opportunity to discover a little treasure: the Helvetica protocol ! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 18\/04\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n Pareidolia, or the art of seeing faces everywhere !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Pareidolia, or the art of seeing faces anywhere! A cognitive phenomenon to which we may owe the survival of the human species and some amazing image collections ! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 07\/01\/2015 <\/div>\n
\n I just want to cry!<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo! I just want to cry... <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 25\/12\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n Happy and creepy Halloween ! A Cassandre tribute...<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Graph\u00e9ine wish you a joyful and scary Halloween party! A tribute to the publicity made by Cassandre in the 1930s: \"Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet, Dubonnet\", <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 13\/11\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n W\u00aerds are dead, w\u00aerds live! The privatization of language<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n When brands privatize language, it's death of words. Yet language must remain a common good, not susceptible to privatization. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 22\/10\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n Tutorial: Poster Festival of Lights (part2)<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Tutorial : Do your poster for the festival of lights. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"cr\u00e9er<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 29\/04\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n A good illustrator idea !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Draw quickly a city map with Illustrator ! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 25\/04\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n Chaumont festival goes bazooka<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n The two ironic, subversive posters for the 2014 Chaumont Festival question current affairs with a bazooka... and it's great ! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 17\/04\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n An island shaped like an April fool's<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n CNES unveils a new island discovered by the Pleiades satellites, a new kind of high-resolution earth observation satellite ! It's also a great opportunity to discover a visual April Fool's ! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 08\/04\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n nature \"bold\" our loves...<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n At first, you want to say \"I love you\" with a penknife... Whatever the moral is, we engrave a few letters with the tip of a N\u00b02 opinel, and let time do its work: light, regular, bold, extra-bold... <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"Pourquoi<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 01\/04\/2014 <\/div>\n
\n Typography and ecology<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Ecology and typography : Garamond typography, the 14-year-old prodigy and $136 million in savings ! Why this equation isn't entirely true ! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"Portman<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 01\/10\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Natalie Portman, serial killer for Dior Rouge<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n After eight eventful seasons, the Dexter series has just come to an end. (You can continue reading this article without fear, it's guaranteed spoiler-free!) It's hard to come back down after being inside the head of a serial killer for so long. Will you miss it? I'm not so sure. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 02\/09\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Another brick in the wall : lego graphics !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Ah the pleasure of rummaging through a crate full of Legos in search of the right brick and the right color - a real Proust's Madeleine ! As you probably know, graphic designers are big kids, and they love to play this timeless construction game. The return in force of <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 23\/07\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n \"Wild idea\", magical Land Art installations and photographs<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Land Art, artistic installations, sculptures and photographs. Ludovic Fesson's art invades the banks of the Loire. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"comprendre<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 24\/06\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Flat design vs Skeumorphism : The game !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Flat design versus Skeumorphism, a brief analysis of the latest trends in web design and communication. Google, Apple and Microsoft, 3 case studies under the microscope! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 20\/04\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Vitra Design Museum<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Visit of the Vitra Design museum near Basel. A delight of architecture, Pop Art, design furniture... and also graphics! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 16\/04\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Rolland Garros in the spotlight<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n In 1980, Daniel Lelong, director of the gallery of the same name, suggested to the French Tennis Federation that they entrust the design of the poster to a great name in contemporary art. Valeria Adami signed the 1980 poster. Today, David Nash has signed the 34th poster in this collaboration. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 31\/03\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Design Biennial 2013<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A brief review of the Saint-\u00c9tienne Design Biennial. Of course, it's difficult to give you an exhaustive account of this event, which brings together several hundred exhibitions all around Saint-\u00c9tienne, let alone when visiting it with two little girls aged 3 and 5! In this context, I can already announce <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 28\/03\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n Design and empathy<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Design and empathy, a reflection that brings together all areas of society. Whether it's putting ourselves in the user's shoes to understand and anticipate their needs, or enabling and supporting new forms of social bonding, empathy has been at the heart of the design discipline since its origins. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 19\/01\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n A short history of the word \"Branding\" !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A short history of the word Branding. Brander, brandir, branler... when etymology sheds light on the meaning of words! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 16\/01\/2013 <\/div>\n
\n The kitten invasion<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n A brief analysis of the Lolcats phenomenon and its influence on communications. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 27\/03\/2012 <\/div>\n
\n Minimalism is dead !<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Less is more, or \"laisse, c'est mort\" ? In graphic design, as in architecture, we've been oscillating for centuries between two paths... minimalism or baroque... simplicity or visual overload. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 04\/05\/2011 <\/div>\n
\n Turkish graphics<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Fortunately, as I turned down an alleyway, I came across the \"Istanbul Design Center\". It's a school of applied art, a venue for exhibitions, workshops and conferences, a publishing house... in short, just what I was looking for! A few posters have piqued my curiosity! Unfortunately, I had to drop <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n \"\"<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n 28\/07\/2009 <\/div>\n
\n A \"Disabled\" pictogram for women...<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n The disabled pictogram was born in the 60s in the context of the international disability rights movement. It represents a fight for the widest possible accessibility to places and buildings. Today, it's feminized... for a new fight! <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>
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\n 05\/07\/2008 <\/div>\n
\n MICKEY CHEATER ! Semiological chronicle<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n When Mickey's ears inspire us to write an acidulous chronicle! A story of illustration, semiology and cartoons with big ears. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div> <\/div>\n