Nomadic Chess: Geography is a piece created by the dutch studio Metahaven (Daniel Van der Velden et Vinca Kruk) and is produced by the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont....
For its 24th edition, the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont is organizing "Bookroom", a new salon for publishers, which will take place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 June. Graphic...
After opening up the poster competition to all kinds of graphic work in 2011 and 2012, it was decided that this year we would resume the poster competition, and supplement it with a panorama of other...
The exhibition "Identity" takes place at les Subsistances from May 25 to June 9, 2013
At once graphic designers and publishers, the Anglo-American duo Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt...
Presented at the last Graphic Design Festival of Breda, this exhibition questions our behaviour in a society in which we continually assimilate information through images. Search / Find / Like / Share...
The 24th edition of the Festival is eager to pursue our work of promoting graduation projects that are led by students and teaching staff together. Now, more than ever, schools represent the research...
june 1 – 2, Banque de France The public can experiment forms, patterns and colors thanks to some ink pads created especially for this occasion. The workshop will be animated by the students in graphic...
june 1 – 2, Banque de France Five graphic designers and illustrators designed special illustrations for the festival : Jean Jullien, Nicolas Ledoux & Pascal Béjean, FLAG, Jochen Gerner and Anthony...
june 3 – 4 – 5, Arago school This workshop is about drawing your own patterns on the wall, following the rules of pixel art : one color in one square which forms a grid. Yassine is a french graphic...
May 27 – june 5, Banque de France Have you ever printed the smallest posters ever ? It is now possible with the dutch studio Letter Proef Tuin who brought with them their special silkscreen printing...
May 27 – june 2, Arago school Killian Loddo and Aude Debout are leading a workshop about marbling technic on silk. Each participant creates a flag during an entire day.
june 1–2, Banque de France Get your own drawing using Roch Deniau's "Normotype" and create an alphabet or abstract forms following different modules combined with each others.
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For its 24th edition, the Festival offers six graphics participating workshops for the public that will mainly take place at the Bank of France and also at the Arago school. All workshops will be free...
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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,...
Installation/interactive performance for pinball machine written by Patricia Dallio, Antoine Schmitt, Malte Martin, Uriel Barthélémi You play your destiny... the machine also... Extra...
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,...
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
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...
