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24th INTERNATIONAL POSTER AND GRAPHIC DESIGN FESTIVAL OF CHAUMONT
You are now here. You are open to risks, experiments, and are fearlessly advancing into the future. But at the same time you are growing up as a designer in a world in crisis, with revolution happening...
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...
1st prize Duygu Ölcek Cars disappear in universe Royal Academy, la Haye 2nd prize Ferdinand Dervieux et Maïa d’Aboville Lis tes classiques !...
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...
Sunday 27 May Raphaël Bastide, Pleaseletmedesign 18h30, Théâtre le Nouveau Relax Monday 28 May Sa*M*ael, Prill Vieceli Cremer 18h30, Théâtre le Nouveau Relax
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...
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 -...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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 – all to Chaumont!’...
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...
Installation/interactive performance for pinball machine written by Patricia Dallio, Antoine Schmitt, Malte Martin, Uriel Barthélémi You play your destiny... the machine also... Extra...
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...
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,...
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...
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The “French Posters” selection is in its second year. The 2011 rules allowed the judging panel to include any work, irrespective of entry in the international competition. The relevance of the...
Founded in parallel to the Festival, the International Competition has enabled a large collection of contemporary posters to be amassed over the years. This competition strives to reflect the reality...
Students, all to Chaumont! Open Texts “The Chaumont Festival team wanted to refresh the student competition, embracing the diverse media that feature in graphic-design output:...
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, to 10 professional...
As the student competition, the workshops will be on the theme of “Open texts”. The competition and workshops are open to students who have studied graphic design for at least two years....
In recent years, France’s graphic industry has experienced a quickening rate of standardisation. The advent of web-based printers, and the mass closures of independent printworks with the ensuing loss...
“From an historical perspective, seeing design as a whole field of professional practice, as a continuum from high to low – high being the academic and low being the vernacular or the naïve – everything...
The Festival is staging a heritage exhibition at Les Silos devoted to the graphic commissions placed by Italian company Olivetti for its communications, identity and publications. Founded in 1908 by Camillo...
In 2010, the Festival began commissioning a piece of work from a studio representative of the international avant-garde. Last year, Swiss studio Norm explored graphic design's myriad possibilities in...
Concrete tubes, standing in public spaces like classic Parisian 'Morris columns', will host a dedicated exhibition of work by 13 graphic designers and artists of the printed image:
Jack Usine and Fanny Garcia, graphic/type designers and illustrators based in Bordeaux, have worked as GUsto since 2005. Using Spanish white chalk,...
Thierry Chancogne, Catherine Guiral and Brice Domingues are coordinating the Festival symposium for the second year running. In 2010, they explored the idea of archives. This year, they return to investigate...
Some lectures were organized during the first week of the Festival’s evenings, from the 23rd to the 27th of May, at the Bouchardon auditorium. Monday 23rd: Pinar&Viola, presentation...
Pixel Factory 2 .11, this third edition organized by the association Pixxing, features graphic designers, “coder –creators” and students whose common idea is to take up and explore the fields of...
Non-profit body “Oh ? et des Bah !” has invited about 30 independent publishers – often graphic designers themselves, brought together by the pleasure of self-publishing and a love for printed objects....
Since 2010, Franck Chevrier and Gérard Desprez have held a market of vintage advertising objects during the Festival. Nearly 50 exhibitors will be selling enamel signs, posters, and all kinds of items...
For the first time this year, the International Competition is topped up by a selection of 10 French posters. Selected by a separate jury, with no hierarchy between the posters, it gives credit to both...
A selection of posters in competition this year is presented. A jury of 5 internationally reknowned desigers from 4 continents will attribute 3 prizes and 1 excellence Icograda Award the Saturday 29th...
For its 21st edition, the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont has chosen the question : “Graphic design, qu’est-ce que c’est?” as the theme of its student competition.
The International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont is providing for the first time “carte blanche” exhibition spaces of about 25 m².These will be allocated, after assessment of applications,...
The workshops will be on the theme of “Graphic Design, qu’est-ce que c’est?” Winners: 1st price: Majan Dutertre, Esad, Amiens 2d price: Renault Nils, Esad Amiens...
For the first time in decades, 110 russian posters from the constructivist period are presented out of Russia. From the exceptional collection of the St Petersburg National Library, they are shown at...
Manuel Krebs and Dimitri Bruni present a 7-meter-large blank square with a 90-centimeter-wide and a-1-meter-and-20 high door : the format of a swiss poster. Once on the other side, the visitor discovers...
51 case studies printed on fabric show a diversity of projects presented by Silvia Sfligiotti and Cristina Chiapponi in the area of visual identity, typography, informative graphic design and artistic...
Usually a contemplation space, la Chapelle is turned into a logo graveyard, symbols of victimed trademarks of economical wars, killed in action by mergers and acquisitions. In counterpoint to these dead...
For the past three years, a competition awards books whose typography, graphic design and material mirror the content. This remarkable selection of literature, art or images books representing a heritage...
The publisher Bernard Chauveau offers to Frédéric Teschner to participate to his book collection “Les Cahiers”. The result is an artist book, in which the art is the book itself. It contains text...
Since 2009, graphic design is on the streets of Chaumont. A collection of 30 illustrations selected from around the world by the English critic Adrian Shaughnessy are presented on 50 concrete columns.
Print as a Web interface. The project is a new version of Design in question created by Rudi Baur and the Design2contex. It offers answers to the question: what's the deal with graphic design? A
The archive could be defined as an investigation of the real with the ambitious task of a complete description of the order of things. It is a sort of return to the origins of perception; a statement,...
Pixel Factory 2 .10, this second edition organized by the association Pixxing, features graphic designers, “coder –creators” and students whose common idea is to take up and explore the fields of...
The International Posters Competition is an integral part of the resounding success of the Chaumont Festival. For the past 20 years, the competition enabled to enhance the collection. A selection of posters...
The theme of the 16th edition of the “Students, all to Chaumont!” Competition will be « Being 20 » this year. For a cultural event “being 20” is already a lot of time and experience. For...
On the theme “Being 20!”, seven workshops will welcome 105 students from all around the world to conceive and create a poster within three days. Animators: Jocelyn Cottencin (France),...
Facing the urban shelving conserved in Chaumont, there are also the heterogeneous productions of all sorts. Books, badges, graphic charters, record covers and other multi-media creations enhance the subject...
“Digital technology has completely transformed our lives and it is now difficult for us to imagine life without the Web, without Google, without e-mails, without SMS, not to mention our cell phone....
Since 2007, the Graphic Design Department of Chaumont has welcomed the graphic designer Fanette Mellier in residency. She chose to develop a research around the book. Her project entitled “Chaumont:...
Created in 2007, inspired by the Dutch and Swiss model, the Best French Book Design Competition awards each year original and innovative book editions to support the most interesting transformations....
For the 20th edition, the Festival invites twenty graphic designers from all around the world to create one image. This series, commissioned by the French ministry of Culture and Communication/DRAC Champagne-Ardenne,...
Mirroring the twenty graphic expressions created for this edition, the posters from the previous nineteen editions are also be presented. The deisgners: 2008: Frédéric Teschner 2007:...
Born in 1846, Gustave Dutailly is French politician, botanist and collectionneur. Interested in botanic, he becomes in 1879 a professor of natural science. He starts in politics in 1866 on the radical...
Pixel Factory 2 .09, this first edition organized by the association Pixxing, features graphic designers, “coder –creators” and students whose common idea is to take up and explore the fields of...
