On top of being a brilliant illustrator, Jérémy Schneider is a hugely talented typographer and graphic designer through his creative studio Violaine et Jérémy. Their type foundry, VJ-TYPE, has been very successful since its launch last year. We’re particularly fond of the Cako font, with the particularly graphic form of its letters and serifs. Check out the rest of their typography at https://vj-type.com/.
Kim Roselier
Café de l'immo
Kim Roselier signs a series of sunny daily life sights in Marseille for Café de l’immo. A real estate agency hosting landlords to be in their boutique-café.
Alexis Tyrsa
Compilation 2017-2020
The last three years have been prolific for Tyrsa, as evidenced by this poster compiling a selection of his latest projects. It features a mix of logos, lettering and illustrations created for Nike, Booba, Childish Gambino, NTM, PSG, Ami, Galeries Lafayettes Champs Elysées, and many others. This beautiful composition is available in 2 colors on his eshop!
Jean-Michel Tixier created a series of six illustrations on the theme of holidays for Birkenstock 1774. He brings the brand’s stand-out collaborations to the fore in these comic scenarios : a giant Birkenstock in a pool, a man lost in the desert with his parasol, or Birkenstock rollerskates…
Culture TV channel Arte turned to Playground to create the teasers for its summer documentary series “La Vie en Face” (Face to Face with Life). Using the protagonists’ voice-overs as a basis, Playground came up with a series of lively illustrations, animated image by image, echoing the powerful testimony of these witnesses to some very dramatic situations. Discover the series on arte.fr
Cruschiform
Office français de la biodiversité
Cruschiform worked with L'agence Verte on an awareness-raising campaign for the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB). She created a wonderful series of seven poetic and educational illustrations, showing the diverse range of common species of plants and animals alike that can be found in the regions of France.
Tableware publisher Maison Fragile and Jean-Michel Tixier have decided to expand the “Chers Parisiens” (Dear Parisians) collection launched in 2018, this time extending the invitation to novelist Marcel Proust. Reimagining with relish Proust’s era, his universe, his texts and his iconic madeleines, Jean-Michel Tixier uses his pared-back, clear line to decorate a fine porcelain set (including plates, coffee cups and tumblers) made in Limoges to the highest standards by certified craftspeople. Explore the collection here.
Damien Cuypers is both a contributor to, and an avid reader of, the famous US food magazine Bon Appétit. He recently created full-length portraits of a selection of their journalists, demonstrating his characteristically precise and subtle stroke.
Rosé Posey is a new wine dreamt up by three friends who all love good wine, the summer and the sun. Following their first collection in 2019, they have once more joined forces with Jean-Michel Tixier for a new series of labels featuring illustrations that have lost nothing of their burlesque and defiantly summery character!
Jean André
Orangina / Trends Paris
Just for this summer, Orangina is shaking up the letters of its name and bringing out a range of products branded Onagrina! To mark the launch of this new range, inspired by the brand’s slogan “Shake it!”, Jean André has come up with a series of fun and quirky anagrams to adorn different goodies to be sent to influencers and journalists.
Cruschiform
Longines Tuxedo / H5
H5 turned to Cruschiform to give their campaign a party feeling with an illustration celebrating the iconic Tuxedo model from watch brand Longines. With her delicate universe and her sensitivity to color, she expresses the sophisticated elegance of the 40s through a snapshot full of life, paying homage to the brand’s creative heritage. Discover the animation here.
Bruno Mangyoku
Midi Minuit / Maison Tangible
Bruno Mangyoku and Kim Roselier are taking part in the Midi Minuit (Midday Midnight) exhibition organized by Maison Tangible to mark the company’s first anniversary. “A total of 11 artists will lead you on a fantastical journey between day and night, telling you a tale that takes you between images fixed in time and extended narration on screen.” This augmented-reality exhibition is shaping up to be an amazing experience. Runs from July 4 to August 28 at 3 bis Rue Jules Vallès, in the 11tharrondissement of Paris.
Antoine Corbineau
EDF / Ici Barbès
Antoine Corbineau has created two illustrations for the latest edition of Vivre EDF, the internal magazine of French energy company EDF, looking at how working conditions are changing amid lockdown. With his distinctive compositions of brightly-coloured landscapes teeming with life, Antoine brings a light-hearted approach to the thorny issues surrounding working from home.
Jérémy Schneider has teamed up once more with French chef Jean Imbert, this time along with Pharrell Williams, for the opening of their new St. Tropez restaurant, To Share. Jérémy has created a gargantuan visual identity, based around an illustration of an imaginary funfair full of outsized fruits and vegetables. In his usual style, Jérémy signs off here on a rich and sophisticated identity, which can also be shown as an animation accompanied by music composed especially for the occasion by Pharrell Williams.
Playground
McDonald's / TBWA Paris
TBWA turned to Playground to create a series of illustrations for McDonald’s, setting out the distancing measures being put in place for the reopening of the chain’s restaurants. These modern and educational pictograms are brought to life with Playground’s signature range of bright, joyful colors!
Alexis Tyrsa
Wanderlust Street Food
Tyrsa created a new identity for Wanderlust Streetfood, a pop-up restaurant that will take its place on the Wanderlust terrace this summer. Chef Alexia Duchene will be serving up a menu full of streetfood classics, made from ingredients sourced from small-scale producers. Driven by his constant search for new tools and new mediums, Alexis Tyrsa created a logo and a signage using colored chalk, allowing him to come up with this box-fresh identity, full of innocence and color, inviting us to get back onto the terraces! Mandatory reservation and further info on the Wanderlust site.
Bruno Mangyoku
Standart Magazine
Created in 2015, Standart is a magazine featuring interviews, articles, city guides and short stories – all themed around the art of coffee. Each edition features talented artists, writers and contributors from around the world. Among these creators is Bruno Mangyoku, who had the pleasure of illustrating the magazine’s most recent edition, themed around the Olympic Games.
Julien Pacaud
Nouvelle série
A new illustration series by Julien Pacaud for Liberation, Politicomag or taken from his personal collection.
This season, Lacoste gave Jean Michel Tixier carte blanche to reimagine their emblem, the famous little crocodile. He conjured up an array of anthropomorphic crocs, each with its own look - a stylish hipster, for example, or an old-school Parisian dandy from St Germain des Près. Jean-Michel Tixier’s quirky and comical Parisian crocs have appeared full-size in ad posters, and also as logos on polo shirts, sweaters and totebags in the #crocoseries collection. Check out this limited edition series in Lacoste stores or on their site.
The French mail service (La Poste) and newspaper Le Figaro turned to Playground to create the graphic identity for their joint new show “Postalk” on website Figaro.fr. The result is a series of illustrations in a minimalist style exploring themes such as sustainable development, the digital world and proximity, as well as discussions about the mail of tomorrow.