Open-air graphic design
Published on 5 July 2024
As a field of its own within the design world, graphic design struts its stuff all over the walls of Paris during Paris Design Week. Visitors are invited to participate in the installations!
Paris Design Week offers many perspectives on design by inviting graphic designers, for the second year running, to show off all their creativity throughout the walls of the city. A partnership has been formed with the Design, Fashion and Fine Craft Office of the City of Paris and the Écrire la Ville association founded by graphic designer Silvia Dore, to create a standalone circuit. Graphic art in urban landscapes is a field in its own right, with the specificity of including city dwellers’ strolls and bodily movements in its practice. Within the former Caserne des Minimes in the Marais neighborhood (a former convent, then barracks), several big names in contemporary graphic arts have been invited to take over the courtyard walls with original creations. Here, you’ll discover a wide variety of inspirations, like variations on the theme of Japanese sewage drains, from Atelier HELMO, Thomas Couderc and Clament Vauchez, or ultra-colorful graphics from Damien Poulain. As for Eddy Terki, he has put together a participatory project that everyone will be invited to participate in. Such will also be the case for the textile-art installation set up within the walls of this complex, designed by the Société Choletaise de Fabrication, who specialize in weaving and lace. Artist Anaïs Beaulieu invites us all to the creation of a collective piece of “urban embroidery” using scrap materials made available by SCF. The other point of convergence for Open-Air Graphic Arts will be the Librairie Eyrolles bookstore on Boulevard Saint-Germain. The public will be able to attend live events with the students from the school of the Campus Fonderie de l’Image, under the direction of Ivan Murit. This artist diffracts shapes using his computer. In this case, the process will be applied to graphic design. The workshop will have students creating all over the walls, the shop window, and even the floor…A program of talks is also planned. And finally, the Ecole d’art Publique de la Ville de Paris (Public Art Academy of the City of Paris) will exhibit its pieces at the City of Paris’ Quartier Jeune space.