This series of labyrinths are works by Felipe Zitecias, an architect who suffered recurrent dreams where he was unable to read, draw, and calculate. The problem affected his career until his work changed completely; from precise blueprints to abstract and incomprehensible works that were impossible to construct in reality. Through the development of a fictional character, this project is inspired by a psychological phenomenon which describes the apparent human inability to read in dreams. Part of this project has already been presented as an unfolding map, but the extensive publication is indefinitely postponed.

This is my latest work which has been paused from being published. These are poster-ticket variations made as a part of a student’s graduation project. The poster is about a novel from the 1880s called The Night Circus, and the graduate’s project involves making an animated movie for this novel alongside this poster representation.  

The DMZ Peace Train Music Festival is designed to provide an opportunity to experience freedom and peace. This would have been the third year of the festival and it was going to be held in Cheorwon, Korea. The design concept focuses on overcoming and spirit. It shows wild grass growing with strong vitality among wire mesh that symbolizes division. However, the festival was postponed due to Covid-19. As the lineup was changed to only domestic artists, the lineup posters could not be used.

Jazzdor (Improvised music Festivals in Strasbourg in November and Berlin in June) is our oldest client. We have been working with them since 2002. Once a year, we design a new poster for the festival, trying to do it as if we were designing it for the first time. This is not particularly easy since we have been designing it for 18 years, but according to the programmed music and personal graphic research of the year, it’s like our free (jazz) improvisation room. The exercise is also difficult because the festival puts together a lot of different musical approaches: contemporary music, free jazz, chamber music, sometimes classic jazz, slam and New Orleans jazz, noise… Our posters can’t be too specific in terms of genre, it’s about inventing images of what Jazz is and its larger contemporary meaning.

Helsinki and Puma were organizing a music festival in Madrid in March. They invited us to create the visual identity and animated visuals for the stage show. We reinterpreted the featured show and created animated cartoon heads for the performing artists. One day before the festival, the event got canceled due to the coronavirus. In order not to let the campaign go to waste we recycled everything as a social media campaign.

Jazzdor Berlin Festival is the little brother of Jazzdor Strasbourg Festival. For 14 years, it has brought the French improvised music scene to Berlin; building bridges between German and French scenes. We have been designing the posters since the very beginning, always as variations of the ones from Strasbourg. We often design a series of 4, considering the way posters in Berlin are displayed side by side, to create surfaces which are more than a mechanic repetition. This year the design introduced a bold coloured geometric variation of the word JAZZ, crossed by tiny free black lines by hand. These are only noticed and appreciated from a close distance and represent the struggle of graphic languages and scales. The posters were about to be screenprinted by Lézard Graphique in April when Jazzdor finally decided to cancel the festival because of Covid-19.

Fulgurances are friends running restaurants and food events in Paris. We have been working with them since 2012. Their main idea is to put rising culinary talent into the spotlight through their chef residency programs, magazine and events. In March, they asked us to design posters for their regular special events. On a basic layout, as a speed exercise (1/2 day), we came up with this duotone trio name / date / image-document from our archives. These 3 riso printed posters are the only ones we’ve designed so far: everything has been cancelled since the lockdown of the restaurants in France.

Here is a collection of posters designed for the National French Theater “TheatredelaCité.” I have been in charge of the visual identity of the theater for 3 years now. The main graphic idea of its identity consists in inviting illustrators, artists, professionals or amateurs to contribute with a silhouette, in a way that reflects the diversity of the creations programmed by the ThéâtredelaCité. Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe contributed with a “Chérie” for La Dame aux Camélias. We introduced a papercut from Luise Duttenhoffer (1776–1829) for the last Joël Pommerat play named Contes et légendes. And we found a dog silhouette, anonymous (apparently linked to a Guns’n’Roses tour) for Léonce et Léna the last creation of Galin Stoev, the artist-director of the ThéâtredelaCité.

This series of labyrinths are works by Felipe Zitecias, an architect who suffered recurrent dreams where he was unable to read, draw, and calculate. The problem affected his career until his work changed completely; from precise blueprints to abstract and incomprehensible works that were impossible to construct in reality. Through the development of a fictional character, this project is inspired by a psychological phenomenon which describes the apparent human inability to read in dreams. Part of this project has already been presented as an unfolding map, but the extensive publication is indefinitely postponed.

This is my latest work which has been paused from being published. These are poster-ticket variations made as a part of a student’s graduation project. The poster is about a novel from the 1880s called The Night Circus, and the graduate’s project involves making an animated movie for this novel alongside this poster representation.  

The DMZ Peace Train Music Festival is designed to provide an opportunity to experience freedom and peace. This would have been the third year of the festival and it was going to be held in Cheorwon, Korea. The design concept focuses on overcoming and spirit. It shows wild grass growing with strong vitality among wire mesh that symbolizes division. However, the festival was postponed due to Covid-19. As the lineup was changed to only domestic artists, the lineup posters could not be used.

Jazzdor (Improvised music Festivals in Strasbourg in November and Berlin in June) is our oldest client. We have been working with them since 2002. Once a year, we design a new poster for the festival, trying to do it as if we were designing it for the first time. This is not particularly easy since we have been designing it for 18 years, but according to the programmed music and personal graphic research of the year, it’s like our free (jazz) improvisation room. The exercise is also difficult because the festival puts together a lot of different musical approaches: contemporary music, free jazz, chamber music, sometimes classic jazz, slam and New Orleans jazz, noise… Our posters can’t be too specific in terms of genre, it’s about inventing images of what Jazz is and its larger contemporary meaning.

Helsinki and Puma were organizing a music festival in Madrid in March. They invited us to create the visual identity and animated visuals for the stage show. We reinterpreted the featured show and created animated cartoon heads for the performing artists. One day before the festival, the event got canceled due to the coronavirus. In order not to let the campaign go to waste we recycled everything as a social media campaign.

Jazzdor Berlin Festival is the little brother of Jazzdor Strasbourg Festival. For 14 years, it has brought the French improvised music scene to Berlin; building bridges between German and French scenes. We have been designing the posters since the very beginning, always as variations of the ones from Strasbourg. We often design a series of 4, considering the way posters in Berlin are displayed side by side, to create surfaces which are more than a mechanic repetition. This year the design introduced a bold coloured geometric variation of the word JAZZ, crossed by tiny free black lines by hand. These are only noticed and appreciated from a close distance and represent the struggle of graphic languages and scales. The posters were about to be screenprinted by Lézard Graphique in April when Jazzdor finally decided to cancel the festival because of Covid-19.

Fulgurances are friends running restaurants and food events in Paris. We have been working with them since 2012. Their main idea is to put rising culinary talent into the spotlight through their chef residency programs, magazine and events. In March, they asked us to design posters for their regular special events. On a basic layout, as a speed exercise (1/2 day), we came up with this duotone trio name / date / image-document from our archives. These 3 riso printed posters are the only ones we’ve designed so far: everything has been cancelled since the lockdown of the restaurants in France.

Here is a collection of posters designed for the National French Theater “TheatredelaCité.” I have been in charge of the visual identity of the theater for 3 years now. The main graphic idea of its identity consists in inviting illustrators, artists, professionals or amateurs to contribute with a silhouette, in a way that reflects the diversity of the creations programmed by the ThéâtredelaCité. Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe contributed with a “Chérie” for La Dame aux Camélias. We introduced a papercut from Luise Duttenhoffer (1776–1829) for the last Joël Pommerat play named Contes et légendes. And we found a dog silhouette, anonymous (apparently linked to a Guns’n’Roses tour) for Léonce et Léna the last creation of Galin Stoev, the artist-director of the ThéâtredelaCité.