La Fête du Graphisme
Poster selected for the exhibition What's my job? from January 20th to February 6th, 2015 at Condé Paris School and associated with the 2015 Graphic Design Festival.
Un workshop mené par Alban Gervais et Elamine Maecha sur la thématique C'est quoi mon métier ? a été l'occasion de concevoir une affiche exprimant notre vision du graphisme en tant que communicants au grand public.
A workshop lead by Alban Gervais and Elamine Maecha on the theme What's my job? was the opportunity to design a poster expressing our vision of graphic design as visual communicators to the general public.
The picture is created from a projection of light on a shadow area, which gives it a furtive, ephemeral appearance. This refers to the duration which is often very short when we observe a graphic work, whereas, despite this, the working time to think and design the message, as well as the creative process put in place to built this picture are often infinitely more long in comparison.
The picture is created from a projection of light on a shadow area, which gives it a furtive, ephemeral appearance. This refers to the duration which is often very short when we observe a graphic work, whereas, despite this, the working time to think and design the message, as well as the creative process put in place to built this picture are often infinitely more long in comparison.
Temporality at the heart of the creative process
Core target
• General public
The purpose of this poster was to make the viewer aware of the issue of graphic design and its concerns. I wanted to invite him to reflect on themes such as the creative process and our relationship to the picture in the current context where "consciences are increasingly shaped by pictures" as the graphic designer and poster designer Vincent Perrotet explains.
How long does it take to make a poster? What is its lifespan? How long are we looking at it ? How many time do we need to get to decrypt its message? Can the poster live a while after "its death"?
All these question marks question our relationship to pictures and the poster, in parallel to the time factor that plays an increasingly important role in our lives and in our way of communicating.