Chermayeff & Geismar, American logo duo

"A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood. " - Ivan Chermayeff

"Trademark design challenges us to use all the magic and intelligence at our command, all our skill, knowledge, vision, and ability in the creation of a single, clear, direct image that will embody the character and aspirations of the organizations that come to us in search of identity." - Chermayeff & Geismar

Paul Rand at Chaumont

"Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting. " - Paul Rand

After acknowledging the work of major 20th century European figures of graphic design, the 2007 Chaumont Poster Festival crosses the Atlantic to present Paul Rand’s work, one of the most emminent modern American designers. He created a great numbers of posters, children's books, logos, and visual identities that have become international standards such as for the American computer company IBM, Westinghouse, ABC broadcast and the international shipping company UPS to name a few.

Embassy VFX

“We need to create robots components to transform it into an intriguing character with personality”

Tabas

“My inspiration comes from my environment, from graffiti, from the city, or even from trash for example. I recover lots of aged objects that have character. The late 70’s inspires me a lot.”

Mike Mignola

"When I read Dracula, I said, 'I'm done. I'm done picking that other stuff. I found my thing.'""It's not just that I started liking monsters—it's that I started liking monsters to the exclusion of everything else."

Diane Arbus

"Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats."

H5

"Minimalism isn’t simplicity ; it’s, on the contrary, about composing something pure where the decorative gives way to visual and graphic efficiency."

Beat 13

"People look at us now and think what we've done is easy, but it's taken four years and we still feel like we're at square one, and we're still not making any money."

Aaron Horkey

"Surreal skateboard artist and dreamworld designer Aaron Horkey left the city for a place where cats go to die".

Michel Gondry

"Sometimes it's better to have less money [for budget] and more freedom."

"'Back to the Future' is one of my favourite films, and if I was offered a quirky, funny, big-budget movie,
I would do it in a minute."

NON FORMAT

“ Butterflies and flowers are there for a reason - it’s not just gratuitous decoration”

David Shrigley

I’m drawing in the most immediate, simple way that I can in order to communicate the things I want to communicate.

But my drawings are quite childish really. Well, they’re very childish. But I think they’re better than kid’s drawings. I guess.

Alexey Brodovitch

“There is no recipe for good layout - What must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast.
A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.”

Neville Brody

“To play jazz properly, you have to become highly skilled at an instrument. Working with a Mac, you have to learn the technology just as you would learn to play an instrument or learn to paint with a brush. Then you have to forget it and then simply start creating and building. A pianist doesn’t spend time peeking inside the piano.”