Expo Crozet 2016

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And, finally, all that brainstorming I started talking about two entries ago was about this. This poster. For some of you it might seem a bit too much... whaaat?? for a poster?! but yes, indeed after a well done poster there's a lot of thought and care! This one is for an Art Exhibition, in Crozet, the first weekend of October.

Each year during the exhibition the artists have a contest among themselves about a given topic. This year the contest is themed "Black and White" (Le blanc et le noir), and that's why I was forced to go back in time, to what it seemed ages ago, when I mostly drew but seldom colored my drawings, and my brainstorming brought back illustrations like the ones in my twenties. Even these patterns, they go all the way back to my seventeens. Although the patterns, they never completely abandoned me.

So, if you are around, you are all invited to the Art Exhibition. As last year, I will be exposing my latest works, together with other artists of my village. And there will be paintings, photography, and other craft arts like clothing works. 

Poster for a Scientific Conference
2016 edition

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Last year I made a poster for a scientific conference that took place in Amsterdam, do you remember that poster? 
It was a conference about tracking detector mechanics, and I explained a bit about the idea behind the illustration and the poster design here. This year I was contacted again to make the poster for the 2016 edition of the conference, so this is what this entry is about!

These conferences usually take place every year, and usually they change venue every time. For this edition, the meeting will take place in the German city of Bonn. I have never been in Bonn so, before starting with the real work, it took me a bit of documenting myself to get a feeling of the place. And yes, behind every illustration, every poster, every graphical work, there's always some investigation involved.

I watched some documentaries, asked some friends, and did a small research about the the personality of the city, and about its emblematic points. When this was clear, I decided what I wanted to emphasize from all that, and I started drawing buildings, walls, skylines...

I drew various buildings, that I've just dropped together in this image above: the ancient city house, a piece of an ancient wall that is still standing, the ancient post office, the University, the Cathedral, and then a skyline. 

Bonn is also the place of birth of the great Beethoven, and so I drew him as well (but this will come later ;) ).

Then, I turned the city into a particle detector.

I decided what structure I wanted to give the poster, where the text should be, where the image would be, and so on. After that I drew the basic structure of the detector I wanted to build, and I cut the various buildings into pieces, using my computer, and deformed them to fill in the detector structure I had created, trying to build Bonn as realistically as possible.

Once this was done I started painting the various parts, using the real colours the buildings have, and sometimes tuning them a bit so they would be more outstanding, more contrasted, more balanced... 

When I had the broken Bonn ready, I drew the cables, the cable boxes, and the metallic structures that also conform a particle detector, and merged them with the rest of the city. When this was done, the detector was already built!

And now what I'd promised... a bit about Beethoven. Well, I invite you to look into the poster and see if you can find him. If you did find Wally when you were children, then you should be able to find Beethoven too!

After a long summer... Poster for the 20th Art Exhibition in Crozet

Après un long été... Affiche pour la 20 ème exposition d'arts à Crozet

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This summer has been a busy one for me, but it is only now that the various things I've been working on will start being public, and so it becomes the time for me to share them with you. Back in June, I worked in this poster for the 20th Art Exhibition in Crozet, an exhibition of arts and crafts by local artists, which will take place this October, in my little town, and in which I will also show some of my work.

During the exhibition, a contest among the participating artists takes place. This year's contest is themed about "voyages", and so this is what the poster is about, voyages from the perspective of the artist who goes everywhere with his pencils, paint box and sketch book, and captures everything that will inspire him.

Sometimes, when time allows it, I can myself be this artist, and so I could use some of the drawings I've made in the past, but I also did others specially for this occasion, and mixed papers with different textures to make the final effect. And yes, in case you're wondering, that aquarelle box in the bottom, yes, that one, is mine :)

Poster for the 20th Art Exhibition in Crozet, 2015

Cet été a été très occupée pour moi, mais il est seulement maintenant que les différents projects que j'ai réalisé commencent à être publiques, et il devient le temps pour moi de les partager avec vous. Au mois de juin, je travaillais dans cette affiche pour la 20ème exposition d'art à Crozet, une exposition d'art et d'artisanat par des artistes locaux, qui aura lieu en Octobre, dans ma petite ville, et dans laquelle je vais aussi montrer quelques de mes travaux .

Lors de l'exposition, un concours entre les artistes participant aura lieu. Le concours de cette année est sur le thème "voyage", alors c'est aussi le thème pour l'affiche, voyages sur le point de vue de l'artiste qui va partout avec ses crayons, boîte de peintures et son cahier, et capture tout ce qui va lui inspirer.

Parfois, quand j'ai le temps, je peux être moi-même cet artiste, et alors j'ai utilisé quelques dessins que j'avait déjà fait, et je n'ai fait aussi d'autres spécialement pour cette occasion. Après j'ai combiné des papiers avec des textures différentes pour rendre le effet final. Et oui, au cas que vous vous posez la question, cette boîte à aquarelles tout en bas, oui, celui-là, est la mienne :)

Publicity for the 88 edition of the Festival de Musiques du Pays de Gex

Publicité pour la 88ème édition du Festival de Musiques du Pays de Gex

Poster for the Festival, also used as a cover image for the booklet with the program...

Affiche du Festival, utilisée comme couverture pour le livret du programme...

... and flyers with the same theme 
... et flyers avec le même thème

Poster for a concert

Affiche pour un concert

Póster para un concierto

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Poster I recently made for a concert this coming May. Maybe it will make you feel the warmth of May evenings...

Affiche que j'ai récemment fait pour un concert le prochain mois de mai. Peut-être vous pourrez sentir la douceur des soirées du mai...

Póster que hice recientemente para un concierto el próximo mes de mayo. Quizá os hará sentir la tibieza de las tardes de mayo...

Poster for a scientific conference

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This is one of the jobs I've been lately doing and that now is public in 
http://forum2015.nikhef.nl, a poster for a conference on mechanics engineering on particle tracking detectors, called simply "trackers" in scientific jargon. 


Behind every poster, design or illustration there is always some research, and a lot of thinking and brainstorming with yourself. 
What is that image that you are looking for that will represent the whole idea in an attractive way? 

Sometimes ideas come easier than others, it depends a lot on the topic and in your experience. If you are familiar with it, it may help, if the topic is very popular it can be trickier to find something original. In this case, I can say my previous life as a physicist helped quite a bit.

This was my first drawing for this poster:

Do you see what it is? 

Clue: How is the design related with the conference topic and place?

Can you guess where the conference is taking place? 

Why are these buildings placed in a circle? 

Why are there bridges? 

What is this circle divided like a cheese in the middle?

There is nothing random in the design, and every element has a reason to be there:


First thing to think about: what is a tracker? How does it look like?

Trackers are designed by physicists and engineers. Usually, the former think about what is needed in terms of the physics they want to measure, while the latter design and maintain services that are essential for the experiment.

Trackers can have different geometries depending on the physics targeted by the experiment, but in general, if one is interested in collecting as much information as possible, they are cylindrical to cover all possible physical space (see here). They are usually immersed in a magnetic field, and measure properties of charged particles. And they are called "trackers" because charged particles do actually leave tracks on them.


Second thing to think about: what is different about this conference edition?

Scientific conferences have usually many editions that take place once in a year, or once in every two years, depending on the conference. Normally, each edition is organised by a different scientific institution, and so it changes venue every time. 


Can you answer now all the questions above?

In this poster, I have used a very distinctive and recognisable feature of the conference location, Amsterdam. Its beautiful buildings and canals are known and admired by everyone (counting myself in!). 
I painted some typical houses in a circle, emulating a frontal view of a tracker detector, made the "cheese" to mark the geometrical center of the detector where the tracks of the particles come from, and placed the bridges in the front to relate the city architecture and canals with the water of the Amsterdam canals, which actually represent the tracks of the outgoing particles. 

Indeed during this conference Amsterdam will become the center of tracking detector mechanics, won't it?

Music Posters

A couple of posters I recently made to advertise two upcoming events in Thoiry. The first poster is to announce a concert, the second one to announce a Masterclass. The two posters have a total different finality and hence they have been conceived with very different styles. 

Poster Concert Echo du Reculet Fev. 2015

The design of a poster for a concert will of course depend on the nature of the concert itself. In this case, the music will be quite varied, so the poster does not evoque a specific style. The poster features most of the elements of the harmony who will play the 1st part, as well as the four flutists that will play the 2nd part, displayed in the circle that drives the whole design. The background color is black, and it is the magenta featuring the music floating in the background (in the atmosphere) which gives some warmth to the design (does music warm us up in a winter day? I'd say yes!). 

Poster MasterClass for flutes Fev. 2015

This poster belongs to the Masterclass series initiated already last year (see this entry), and so it keeps a similar style, with some specific changes for the occasion. Aside from the picture featuring the new musicians, colors are warmer, and the background displays a landscape made of staves, so that the lights and shadows from the musicians picture seem to come from the drawing behind, don't they?

Social posters

A social poster is one with a social message. Through images, social posters can be used to denounce injustice, something abusive, or to celebrate some achievement. The final goal is to make people think about something in particular, and if possible, react about it.

One of the most critical things in our society now is the lack of job for many individuals. Lots of people loose their jobs for a very long time, starting a chain that ends up with the collapse of their lives and themselves. Someone loses his job, then cannot pay the bills, cannot pay the house, cannot pay his food, and eventually becomes alienated from the society, and from himself. Others have jobs that are very little rewarded, and also collapse, in a different way. So our job is that foot that we cannot loose, like in the image below.

See it in http://www.posterfortomorrow.org/en/gallery/view/38113

Música, Fiesta y Color

Music, Party, and Color

(junio 2014)

La música se celebra, y ayuda a celebrar. Nos acompaña en la vida, en la naturaleza, en nuestra cabeza. Pongámosle música y color a la vida, celebremos el día de la música el 21 de junio!
Music is celebrated, and helps to celebrate. It accompanies us in our lives, in nature, in our heads. Let's put some music and color to life, and celebrate the day of the music the 21st of June!

Póster para La Fête de la Musique (EMCCE)

Otra de pósters

Another poster one

(junio 2014)

Póster promocional para el Coro Mixto Matices, la música a través del color

Más posters!!

More posters!!

(mayo 2014)

Más posters! Porque una imagen vale más que mil palabras... 
More posters! Because an image counts more than a million words...
Concierto Anual Echo Du Reculet con Moya Trombones

MasterClass ofrecida por el grupo musical Moya Trombones

Posters! Concierto Anual EMCCE

Posters! Annual Concert of the EMCCE

(abril 2014)

Poster del evento

Portadas programas de los dos conciertos