23rd International Poster and Graphic Design Festival
26 May–10 June 2012, official week-end: 2-3 June

From 26 May to 10 June 2012
Official week-end: 2-3 June

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SNCF, trains and shuttles


Due to the perturbations on the railway line SNCF Paris-Chaumont, special trains are scheduled by SNCF for the Festival visitors on the weekends of 26-27 May and 2-3 June. We strongly advise you to book...

We Welcome You!


The task of creating the 23rd Festival’s communications was handed to Jean-Marc Ballée. He knows Chaumont like a graphic designer knows the Festival. He knows the local area like the town itself, where...

Symposium


Saturday 02 June
- 2:00 - 2:40 pm: The Past, the Present and the Possible
Paul Gorman & Caz Facey about Barney Bubbles

- 2:40 - 3:20 pm: Laurent Fétis & Étienne Hervy
...

Concerts


Saturday 26 May
- 7:30-10:15 pm: Made in Shantytown, Leo Les Mains, le Khédive

Tuesday 29 May
- 8:30-10:30 pm: The Roosters, le Parisien

Thursday 31 May
-...

Confusion 004 Party


Friday 01 June
10:30 - 00:00 pm: Paulus P & Shyler

Samedi 02 juin
- 10:00 - 10:45 pm: We’re no good we’re super, Killian Loddo
- 10:50 - 11:35 pm: DJ Arc de triomphe,...

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White Noise, When Graphics Make the Noise


The ties between graphic design and music are legion, transcending eras and media. Whether in rock, electronic or jazz, there is always an exemplary collaboration that jumps immediately to the mind of...

Un Imprimeur


The quality of a poster stems primarily from its designer’s talent. But one intermediary, though essential to the production chain, is little discussed: the screenprinter. The exhibition staged at Les...

Moving Picture Show, Jürg Lehni



The current migration from analogue to digital movie projections in cinemas across the globe is slowly rendering the medium of 35mm motion picture film obsolete, along with the technical equipment used...

Babel on demand: a monumental manifesto


On the initiative of Étienne Hervy and Émilie Lamy, respectively artistic director and publications manager of the Festival, a number of French graphic-design figures have been invited to take part...

Iron Cubes


During this 23rd edition, eight containers will be located around town. The interior of each container will host a project by a young graduate chosen by their school, where they will have matured their...

Lettres Type


After a first showing at the My Monkey gallery in Nancy, from 17 November to 30 December 2011, the exhibition ‘Lettres Type, nouvelle création typographique en France’ is now being held in Chaumont,...

Sorties d’usine


Gérard Desprez, a retired primary-school teacher and now a volunteer educator, presented his collection of 79 workplace-safety posters to a class of top-year primary pupils at École Jean Macé – who...

La Life


Besides hosting the welcome and sales desk for this year’s 23rd International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont, the former Banque de France building will accommodate a brand-new project,...

2012 International Competition


The 23rd International Competition, with prize money from Icograda, and considered one of the leading events of its kind in Europe, has appointed Armand Mevis and Linda Van Deursen to chair its judging...

Student competition 2012


The 2012 student competition, entitled “Graphic design in public space: an active form”, is both a subject and an experiment.

For its 19th edition, the ‘Students –...

Call for Projects PixelFactory 2.12


Association Pixxing together with the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont is offering young professional “coding-artists” an exhibition venue in the context of the annual...

Extra Ball


Installation/interactive performance for pinball machine written by Patricia Dallio, Antoine Schmitt, Malte Martin, Uriel Barthélémi
You play your destiny... the machine also...

Extra...

Workshops 2012


This year’s workshops are again reserved for students, but are now separate from the “Students – All to Chaumont!” competition. Instead of focusing on a theme and medium, they will be run like...

La Fabrique 2012


For the third year, the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont is providing “carte blanche” exhibition spaces of about 25 m². These will be allocated, after assessment of applications,...

Practical


Graphic Design Department | International Poster and Graphic Design Festival
Les Silos – Maison du Livre et de l'Affiche
7/9 avenue Foch
52000 Chaumont
T/ +33...