Magazine Etapes published my diploma project on second hand clothes. A pity, they didn't show the book cover pics...

In this book, you will find some examples of my work, e.g., editing, photographs, logos, designs, and packaging. I designed this book to interact creatively with the most important and critical issues of the actual news.

The driving force of this book is the fantasy generated by the mystery of a second hand cloth. But it is also a certain nostalgia of our childhood, when we used to borrow clothes to our mother or sister. All those treasures we discovered in our grandmother's attic and the olfactory sensations of old fragance mixed with dust are common to everybody. "Bribes de fripes" (fragment of second hand clothes) tries to describe these emotions thanks to an ensemble of drawings, photographs and a sample of tissue wrapped around the cover.

A typographic project where the basis of the small and capital letters is the same. The sliding suport allows one to play and show the small or the capital characters.

In the Netherlands, squats are houses of culture in extinction, altough they are occupied by people who have a great influence on the underground movements. This squat has been demolished and its occupants expelled a few weeks after this work. I wanted to keep a document of the people living there.

Steeve Iuncker was invited by the Haute Ecole d’Art et Design to discuss the issue raised by the journalist Myriam Poiatti concerning the use of press images, whose status is part document and part work of art. With the visual processing of the flyer, the transparency of the  newspaper merges the title of the article and a picture (of a football match) on the back. Does this intermediary status distort in any way the information conveyed by the image? The visual work tries to answer this question by recalling the conveying role that newspapers have played for photography. 

Personal project of photography on the theme of the sublime. What if sublime was what we can hardly explain and, yet, inevitably fascinate us. In this photograph, sublime is the mix of strangness and beauty produced by a girl-goddess emerging from the water of a mountain lake.

To go out, to face the social world and its looks, to submit to its codes, to surrender to its criteria of beauty, to dress up and make up. All these are part of the process we go through when we prepare to leave our place. This book is a photographic documentary on a woman about forty years old, who plans to go out. I follow her along all the steps, from the bath to the leaving, going through the hair removal, the makeup, the clothing. In the end, the question remains open: has there been a change? Is this woman more attractive? Is she a more “social” human being?

Theme of the mobility and of the dream, the “journey” renews every day the tight line between these two cities, characterized by a variable background but inevitably bound by the constant nibbling of the countryside by the towns. Sites and cranes punctuate this route. The texts are poems inspired by the travel, when the morning thoughts wander among trees and houses, or when one tries to escape from a tedious day by sinking into a fleeting reverie  

The exercise required creating a book by exploiting only its black-and-white typography, namely, the Sabon font of Jan Tischold. The text is a sustained reflection on the work of the typographer, and historically it answers a letter from his fierce opponent, Max Bill. The inspiring title, Faith and Reality, condenses the opposition between belief and reality. The cover attempts to contrast believing and seeing. The folding allows one to read either "faith" or "reality". The content of the book consists of the text by Tischold and unveils a fragmented typographic universe which is recomposed by a backfolding of the pages.

May 17 2009

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kissing Syrian defence minister, Hassan Turkmani, may 2005, Teheran >>>

Poster for the Arlequin Theater, which was inaugurated in Val d’Orges(Paris) in September 2008. It is meant to be accessible to people with different cultures and social backgrounds.

Anna Politkovskaïa disapeared in 2006, she was a controversial journalist in Russia that's why she was killed in front of her house the day of Putin's birthday. Among her publications, she wrote "A Dirty war" about Chechnya, "Putin's Russia, life in a failing democracy"... and she devoted her life to reveal the truth.

>>> article on Reporter sans frontières

The “Geneva Trade & Development Forum” is a conference that took place in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, in September 2008. The event has brought together representatives of the marketplace, politicians, and delegates of several NGOs, in order to discuss frankly and openly the possibility of promoting the economy of developing countries. According to the principles of the forum, humanitarian help does not provide a sufficient support. On the contrary, it contributes to the impoverishment and to the dependence of these countries as far as raw materials are concerned. Local sustainable projects for the self-sufficiency of small communities were on the schedule. My clients for this visual communication project asked me to create something suitable for a public specialized in economics and politics. To reinforce the image of the forum as a place for debate and concrete action, I chose photographic documentation linked to everyday events in the news.

Johnatan Puckey photographs the sky of Rotterdam every five minutes since five years ago; a huge stock of pictures which he has submitted to the imagination of the students. I have proposed a scheme relating a word to every chosen image. A gray sky can evoke the word “anxious”, a shiny sun the word “happy”, and so on. The more the participants, the more visible will be the text in the sky images. >>> Sky-catcher

Most people have a nearly religious belief in medical research. Nevertheless, a growing number of scientists question the efficiency of the animal model for healing human diseases. In this photo I wanted to convey the absurdity of using in modern days so primitive means, like a mouse. In addition, the disproportion between the sizes of the man and of the pill, and that of the mouse, suits perfectly the message of a mismatch between aims and means of animal-based methods in medical research. Ruesch Hans >>>>

Throughout the years, the Junior Enterprise (JE) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) has grown with a solid reputation of seriousness and efficiency as the bridge between the students in engineering and the world of professionals. They have chosen my logo, visible on www.je.epfl.ch  >>> webswite

The shell-shaped logo that identifies the oil company alludes to the drilling stations that extract oil from the oceans. The red and yellow colors recall the combustion process. The synthesized product has lost all signs of its natural origin. The new logo is based on the Fibonacci series, a mathematical succession of numbers which is intrinsically present in the growth process of certain shells, as well as in the human body evident in the growth of bones. The colors of the logo optimistically suggest an evolution towards greener energy policies for the company.

The challenge of the competition was a big one, but for the love of humor, derision and irony have pervaded the conception of the posters. The festival is highly popular in the North See, and it is to the credit of this fish who just gobbled the music instruments.

The society Sinergi of Lausanne has responded to an invitation to tender by the prince of Bahrain in February 2008 for the Olympic Games in Pekin. As designer for Sinergi, I have proposed a logo embodying tradition, with the tree of life, symbol of the island, and the contemporary age, with the modern towers of the capital city.

“My home is myself” is an international competition which took place in December 2007. It has joined students of five different schools of art from every continent.. Selected within the top 5 from the school of Geneva, my workwithin  was composedin three pictures using the Freudian concept, opposing the id, ego and super-ego. >>> See