As all Wes Anderson movies, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a strange and special world, where everything is unreal but seems so real ! I loved it ! I like his other movies, but this one is so funny and so graphic... Of course, graphic design take a big part in it.

 

 

 

 

Creative review has a very interesting interview with Annie Atkins, the film's lead graphic designer who was responsible for every graphic prop in the movie.

 

Here comes a little extract : It's an absolute dream job and my head still spins when I remember the first call from Wes's producer. It was a shock - I remember trying to sound really professional and calm on the phone, but I was actually doing cartwheels around the room. (...) Wes is completely involved in every aspect of his filmmaking, and I worked very closely with him and the production designer, Adam Stockhausen, every day. This film was particularly fun, I think, from a graphics point of view, because we were creating this entirely fictional country that Wes had written - the State of Zubrowka. It meant that every little detail had to be made from scratch - flags, banknotes, postage stamps, everything.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The online promotion is also singular, with the www.akademiezubrowka.com but also the zubrowkafilmcommission.tumblr.com, both designed by Watson Design Group.

 

 

 

 

 

And if you want to know more, read the NYtimes article avout the The Miniature Model, and "Art director Adam Stockhausen on creating the world of "... and if you haven't yet, go to see the movie !

 

I am very please to present you 6 new posters available in the shop. I create 2 collections : Botanique and Ephemera. Each poster is 30x40cm, limited edition, hand numbered and signed. And they are printed on both sides ! Back of each poster has the design of the collection. They are available individually or as a set of 3 posters for the price of 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fishs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love vintage photography, at this time of portrait was something ! Ok, selfie are something too, it is just a question of time ! I have collected a lot of vintage pictures on fleamarkets and now propose them in the shop as set or framed...

 

When I found these amazing wood frames and I want to gave them a new life. I put in them some ephemera and pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also like to put vintage portrait directly on the wall, and compose with them. The back is also very nice with logo of the photographer. I put 5 set in the shop, all comes in a Mr Cup tote bag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an amazing album dated for the early 1900. It contains photos of politics and artists. The images werre given in "Felix Potin" products and you have to collect them to complete your album. They are real "chromo-photgraphies" and not printed image. The album is not complete, and a little used but it is an amazing piece of history. It also contains some images of Paris. A piece of history available here.