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MAY 2010 SAÂDANE AFIF
Vice de forme: In Search of Melodies —the latest poster we've designed for artist Saâdane Afif on the occasion of the Marcel Duchamp Prize competition 2009— is part of the "Sélection française 2009" of the International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont.
MAY 2010 CITÉ DU DESIGN / ÉCOLE SUPÉRIEURE D'ART ET DESIGN DE SAINT-ÉTIENNE
Graphic identity of the Cité du Design and the Arts school in Saint-Étienne, France, October 2009.
MAY 2010 MARCELLE ALIX
For a few months now we work with Isabelle Alfonsi and Cecilia Becanovic on the graphic identity of their art gallery Marcelle Alix, based in Belleville, Paris. Here are two advertisings for the very first exhibitions to have taken place in the gallery. Photos Aurélien Mole.
MAY 2010 FRAC PAYS DE LA LOIRE
Graphic design for Chapitre III (Les Récits autorisés) – Chapter III (The Authorized narratives)– about the XXe résidence internationale du FRAC Pays de la Loire, 2008. Curated by Yoann Gourmel with Mariana Castillo Deball, Alex Cecchetti, Will Holder, Benoît Maire and Falke Pisano.
Bilingual French/English available on B42 website.
MAY 2010 INSTITUT D'ART CONTEMPORAIN
Since September 2008 we are running the art direction and graphic identity of the Institut d'art contemporain, in Villeurbanne. Here are a few samples of printed works.
MAY 2010 DADA GROTESK
Watch online the two videos we shot last year for the exhibition Connexions/Connexoes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where we chose to show several own works using our font Dada Grotesk (designed for the exhibition “Dada”, Centre Pompidou, 2005, and available at Optimo).
MAY 2010 ZONES
Three of the latest covers we’ve designed for the collection.
MAY 2010 LE CENTQUATRE
Since July 2009 we are in charge of the graphic communication of Le Centquatre, in Paris. We’re trying to use Experimental Jetset typographical work and recommandations very precisely and to bring something new to it.
MAY 2010 HF|RG
Our book HF|RG is awarded at the 2009 Concours des plus beaux livres français and at the Belgium Fernand Baudin Prize.
FEBRUARY 2010 RAEBERVONSTENGLIN
We work for a new contemporary art gallery based in Zürich, Switzerland. Here is a picture of the Karsten Födinger opening exhibition. Have a look at their website here.
FEBRUARY 2010 MUSÉE D'ORSAY
Cover of the catalogue for the exhibition about James Ensor at the Musée d'Orsay, 2009-2010.
FEBRUARY 2010 BACK COVER
3rd issue of the French graphic design and typography magazine Back Cover.
NOVEMBER 2009 SAÂDANE DEVALENCE
View of the exhibition of the posters we designed for French artist Saâdane Afif.
Since 2006, from our Parisian studio, we conceive printed objects for the exhibitions of the artist in Lyon, Carquefou, Caen, Brussels, Antwerp, Margate, Rotterdam, Monaco, Turin, Berlin or Miami. "Saâdane deValence" presents the posters, the books and the cds we created.
NOVEMBER 2009 RAPHAËL ZARKA
deValence has designed the new edition of Chronologie lacunaire du skateboard, 1779-2009 published by Editions B42.
JULY 2009 KOKO VON NAPOO
We designed the new E.P. of the French band Koko Von Napoo.
APRIL 2009 HARUN FAROCKI | RODNEY GRAHAM
Poster and catalogue of the exhibition HF|RG curated by Chantal Pontbriand at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
APRIL 2009 MARTIN SZEKELY
The new website of the designer is online here. Have a look!
APRIL 2009 INSTITUT D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, VILLEURBANNE
We are currently working on the visual identity. Here is the invitation card/poster of the “Nine Evenings” exhibition.
APRIL 2009 AA41 architect
Graphic identity of the Rennes (France) based architecture agency. Here is the stationnery.
APRIL 2009 ZONES
Design of a new book collection for French publisher La Découverte.
APRIL 2009 B42
Book for French artist Anthony Duchêne with a fiction by Émile Soulier, published by B42.
APRIL 2009 CNAP
Poster for Tilt, 11 exhibitions of a selection of piece of art part of the Fonds national d’art contemporain in different museums of the "Région Centre".
FEBRUARY 2009 BACK COVER
2nd issue of the French graphic design and typography magazine Back Cover. We made an interview with Elektrosmog. We also designed it. All typeseted exclusively in Dada grotesk.
SEPTEMBER 2008 GRAND CHAOS ET TIROIRS
We edited and designed the book of the 2008 artists’residency of Ateliers des Arques curated by Claire Moulène and Mathilde Villeneuve with Åbäke, Boris Achour, deValence, Marcelline Delbecq, Aurélien Froment, Benoit-Marie Moriceau, Jean-Luc Moulène et Raphaël Zarka. You can purchase it there
SEPTEMBER 2008 DADA GROTESK
The font Dada Grotesk is now available in 5 weights with italics and east european characters.
You can purchase it there: www.optimo.ch
SEPTEMBER 2008 FLAMMARION
deValence redesigned the classic pocket book collection Champs for french publisher Flammarion.
SEPTEMBER 2008 SAÂDANE AFIF
For the artist Saâdane Afif exhibitions One at Frac Pays de la Loire and Two at Frac Basse Normandie,
we designed four posters interpreting four of his pieces. Each poster is silkscreened in two colors
(size 70x100 cm.).
MARCH 2008 MATHIEU MERCIER
We designed the poster and the catalogue for the solo show of french artist
Mathieu Mercier at Arc/Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2007-2008).
MARCH 2008 DOUBLE
Artistic Direction, design and lay-out of the French fashion magazine Double.
MARCH 2008 LYON CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIAL
Promenade au zoo is a nook/signage for eponym exhibition curated by French artist Saâdane Afif and Valerie Chartrain, about Patrice Joly and his Zoo Galerie (Nantes), during Lyon Biennial in 2007.
