Adrian Vilardem
Artistic director
My job :
A good DA is above all someone who has the culture
graphics necessary to be able to address a wide variety of subjects while maintaining overall consistency throughout a project.
You must also be able to clearly express your vision of the project
to the various stakeholders, whether customers but also
external service providers (illustrators, photographers, printers, etc.).
Some advice :
Stay open to anything that can enrich your creativity, don't
don't put up barriers and explore as many different areas as possible
Xavier Morley
Artistic director
My job :
A DA is someone curious, who has the will to constantly learn. He must be easy to contact and not hesitate to question himself. But above all, he must, whatever the project, find a way to enjoy lead him to end.
Some advice :
Constantly questioning yourself and always looking further and trying, putting yourself in danger and starting over.
Marion Lawrence
Illustrator
My job :
I place orders for Gallimard jeunesse in particular,
to illustrate a wide variety of articles and covers. You have to know how to be listening and responsive. An illustrator is a person
who manages to translate an idea while keeping an identifiable style and universe.
Some advice :
Do not stay fixed, be curious, know how to be versatile and question yourself while trying to stand out
Audrey Gaucher
Castus Flower
Illustrator
My job :
Being an illustrator/rice is often a freelance job. This freedom is a luxury but requires self-management and setting rules to work well. To know how to renew oneself, to show
creativity, take initiatives, know how to sell yourself, put your stamp on it but also know how to respond to the request of a client, here are the qualities that a good illustrator must have. be able to exercise a
profession which is also a passion, it's really a chance!
Some advice :
Always give your best and do your best to have no regrets, not be afraid to think outside the box and really do what you want to do. Even if sometimes you have great doubts, always take a step back and hang on and above all communicate!
Emmanuel Polanco
Illustrator
My job :
I am an illustrator and author of children's books. My main types of work are book covers, theater posters and illustrations for the French and international press. I am also a children's book author. I work with editors, DAs and other authors. The illustrator is an image maker, a magician and an artist. He or she seeks to synthesize, in an image, the beauty and the idea. He is also a storyteller. And he is the one who puts words and ideas into images.
Some advice :
Be curious about everything and be as ambitious as possible, even if it means putting yourself in danger. Reading is the greatest source of inspiration there is. We have to know how to put ourselves in danger and get out of our comfort zones. But before getting out of the box, you have to acquire a solid foundation. The greatest virtue of the creative (any kind) is, in my opinion, patience.
Lauriane Pierlot
model maker
My job :
My job is to make reading the magazine more pleasant, fun and more understandable. I then seek to match the images to the text as appropriately as possible, while creating a coherent layout. The goal is to make the reader want to immerse themselves in the article. I have as tools to achieve this the shape and the style of the characters, their color and their size. The balance between texts and visuals, the distribution of white spaces and many other things.
Some advice :
To be curious, to be interested in as many things as possible, to store a lot. Take advantage of the fact that the school teaches a wide variety of disciplines to discover new areas of expression and learn new skills
Alumni course
“The school taught me how to develop design mechanics and it's a real plus in our professional field.”
Arnaud Forestier
Director
“The school guided me, it taught me to experiment and to see projects with an overall vision, giving meaning in addition to form.”
Adrian Vilardem
Artistic director
Julien Egron
motion designer
My job :
For me, a motion designer is a designer for whom the need to combine rhythm, movement, music and visuals is essential. But above all, who cultivates a taste for images, graphics and his artistic sense! My job comes in several forms: I am solicited for my expertise in motion design and artistic direction
(Graphic animations, brand content, explainers, films,
dressings, montages, etc.). For interface design (Cr a Web
and mobile). And for design (Strat and Artistic Direction) in connection with the teams in place at my clients (Luxury, Consumer Goods, Entertainment, Corpo…)
Some advice :
Enjoy ! Keep the passion!
be curious, cultivate your sense of image and idea non-stop. Be hardworking and take risks, don't be afraid of failure. And be open-minded and not afraid of criticism.
Arnaud Forestier
Director
My job :
I am a multimedia director. The explanatory, educational video is the core business of our cooperative. I am in charge of designing the scenarios (in tandem with my designer-editor partner), I then produce the storyboards (illustrations, creation of a graphic universe, cutting, transitions) and I animate them in After Effects (animation, voice-over editing and
sound effects). Our cooperative occasionally carries out more traditional missions such as visual identity or publishing. A director is a graphic designer capable of juggling all media and all techniques to ensure the relevance and visual coherence of a global communication project. He's someone who has to be creative within the set framework. by the communication strategy, always keeping in mind the objectives of these media.
Some advice :
Do not neglect the strategic aspect and the design phase! Be strong on these aspects, you will make the difference.
Jean-Baptiste Fraisse
Artistic director
My job :
To be DA Video is to be a translator, a versatile artist
who understands how an audiovisual production works at the micro level (design of elements, creation of images) and macro (narration, color script, symbolism etc.). He knows how to understand the director's vision, assimilate it and convert it into visual language through shapes and colors, to tell a story. He is the guarantor of the artistic direction of the film.
Some advice :
Take a step back, accept that learning artistic subjects takes time and that this curve cannot be accelerated. I would also advise putting their ego aside and learning to work in groups, not to judge and to take the good ideas from where they come. 'Cause that's how the working world works
in the creative world. Finally, my last piece of advice would be to
not wait to have a super level to do projects that excite them, but rather to learn to do with their limits to explore intelligent and effective formulas. That, in fact, is true creativity...