... I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like! :)
Today, I'm taking a trip with my small blue bicycle through a graphic landscape, free like the cute bird which came with me, starting to invent stories of my own. Discover this inspirational pictures and...
Notebook made with recycle leather from Labrador Factory
Pencil by Papier Tigre
Sometimes all you need is a calm and a peaceful break in your life... Just a few days to be with yourself and the people you love. Taking the time to read, think, eat and enjoy nature. Here are a few inspirational graphic photos to pay tribute to the soothing boredom!
Smart notebooks from Le Papier fait de la Résistance and if it was up to me, I'll put basil in every meal!
Imagine you're going to embark for an overseas ship cruise. SImple and smart. Discover these inspirational graphic and colorfull pictures and welcome aboard!
Smart notebooks from Papier Tigre and Le Papier Fait de la Résistance.
"Buy one, give one" - For one pair of classy glasses bought at Jimmy Fairly's, they give one pair to someone in need. Love the spirit!
What if I could summarize the perfect summer with a few objects of my own? What it would looks like? Discover these inspirational pictures I've create!
"Voyage à Motocyclette" (original title: "Diarios de motocicleta"), a fantastic roadtrip in Latin America written by Ernesto Guevara himself, before he became El Che. The movie with Gael García Bernal is also well adapted.
"Paris Vs New York", a really cool book of illustration summing differences between the cities.
I love this swimwear with its handmade brazilian links from Amenapih.
Graphic and colorfull notebooks from Papier Tigre.
For those who know me, you know how much I love to travel. It's an immeasurable desire to see places I've never seen before, to talk with people way different than me, to be challenged by getting myself into a complete new situation. Every time I return from a trip, I feel different. Recently I asked myself why travelling matters so much and why is it more than a hobby but a profound need?
The answer is simple : because travelling is good for creativity!
The most important thing that I experience when I travel is to capture the mood of the city or the country I'm in. Are the people stressed, in a hurry, quiet or open minded? What kind of architecture, design, patterns dominate the streets? Which color, word and sound can summarize the all place? In what state of mind does the trip leave me? Tired? Perplexed? Lucky? All these informations create some "moodboards" that I can use later on professional projects, without realizing it.
When you travel - especially when you discover a place for the first time - you look at things with complete fresh eyes. Everything feels new, different, original and interesting. It's important to capture the way you feel to try to feel it again once you're back in your personal and professional routine.
When you travel you are forced to be constantly open. You can't be shy too long or stay in you hotel room all day! You have to face new places, new culture, new people, new way of doing things... And it could be a challenge to you but it's always a good thing. It opens new spaces in your brain and we all know that creativity comes from a free mind!
Of course you may say that trips cost money, sometimes a lot of money! But travelling is above all moving you forward no matter the - geographical or spiritual - destination.
Photo: I love these familiar objects which remind me to see things with fresh eyes and bring back memories from my trips.
In the recent years, I've discovered more and more graphic designers and motion design studios based in Barcelona. Dvein, Lobulo, Vasava... regularly show us a really talented, open-minded and colorfull way of doing Art Direction. Is this coming from the city they are living in?
Personally, I went 4 or 5 times in Barcelona and I always get a lot of pleasure in the city. Of course - as you all know - it's a really cool city to party, but not only! I think there is an atmosphere, an environment conductive to creativity: colorfull Gaudí's architecture, soft heat that push you to go and do stuff outside, Barcelonian's exhuberance and way of life...
So as I previously did with New York - you can read the article here - I wondered if this city could be a great place for living and working? Here is a few reasons to go:
- Every year, you could attend the OFFF Barcelona. Founded by Hécto Ayuso, this event gathers all the very best talented outhere right now. I highly recommend it to you and this year will be the 15th anniversary!
- For those who are still students, you could try to enter the Atelier, the visual arts and design school also founded by Hécto Ayuso. Each year, the current students create all the visual communication elements for the OFFF Barcelona, not bad? ;)
- You could walk all day long in the footsteps of Gaudí, Dalí, Picasso, Miro... and see how they can inspire you as a graphic designer: think about colors, shapes, lines, patterns...
- And oh, beer is cheap! :)
Remember Freddie Mercury and sing...
Photo: Cool posters inside OFFF Barcelona, may 2013.
In may 2012, I finally took a trip I had been dreaming for years and discovered the Big Apple! New York is a confusing city, far from what you've seen on movies and series. I loved it and I hated it. Once I was there, I wanted to go home and when I came back, all I could think about was how to return! And it was a new and strange feeling!
So I asked myself, if you had the opportunity, would you live and work there?
So here is 5 things why the answer could be a yes:
- You could live in a cool hipster's neighborough! My favourites are Williamsburg and DUMBO in Brooklyn, East Village and Meatpacking in Manhattan.
- You could attend awesome conferences about design and creativity, such as the brillant 99U.
- Your life could be an eternal Instagram: just buy a MacBook and work in a Starbuck all day long! ;)
- You could taste the Brooklyn lager beer brewed on the spot. I love it!
- But most of all, you could live in the city where all cultures, languages, styles and moods are mixed together to embrace creativity!
Hum... So why not trying there? Remember...
Photo: Chelsea Market, may 2012