AlphaDesigner Blogue

Philippe Starck explains to Wired.com why chairs should be invisible trees should be left alone. Few people can put so many statements packed in a single object.

An experiment inspired by Kraftwerk’s “Mensch Maschine” cover art. It resulted in the creation of six pseudo-constructivist artworks and made me contemplate about the modern cult of simplicity.

A sign displaying a weird ritual performed in the 21 Century by parents offering their children as a sacrifice to wild cats.

Time lapse HD video made from screenshots from the working process of Chad Pugh’s Science Machine illustration.

A Chinese book publisher steals the entire art blog from the Little Chimp Society site. Online content theft at its “finest”!

I am not aware if there is an international Designer’s Day but Pi day can be a good choice for it. Because what can be more essential to design than the number that defines the whole Universe?

Of all the design projects I do, the ones related directly to my own activities are the hardest. It’s like the story of the shoemaker who doesn’t have shoes actually. First there is the pressure coming from all the work I do for clients, it challenges both my physical and spiritual stamina, so even if [...]

I rarely see good films about graphic design, so I guess I’m obliged to write about this one. It’s called Helvetica (official site: www.helveticafilm.com), which is not a very imaginative title. Fancy terms aside, Helvetica is the set of letters that are literary omnipotent, present in street signs and labels, corporate logos and computers. One [...]

Iorek Byrnison (the Golden Compas), originally uploaded by - AeroMartin -.

His work is a strange mix between classic Disney and tribal utopia. Martin Dasnoy aka AeroMartin is one of the many talented illustrators that I have been able to meet in Flickr. Yes, the photo sharing site.

The Ultimate ArtWerk Computer, originally uploaded by ArtWerk.

This is a variation of a design I made for the Christmas campaign of one of my clients. It’s about selling software and computers with a twist of anti-piracy evangelism. I had to do some illustrations and I thought about how would my computer look like, if [...]

All designers hate their clients, don’t they? This is something like an axiom in our profession. Of course it’s not true. If you hate all your clients, you should simply quit, design is not for you. It’s as simple as that. Many people make their first steps in this profession perceiving themselves as artists [...]