Summer is time for fleamarkets everywhere... specially on august 15th which is a holiday in France... I am not sure my grand mother will understand than a 40 years old "Vache qui rit" box now cost 30€ ;) I have buy a lot of items, will sell some soon in the found section, but now I am preparing the trip to Spain and Bordeaux next week. Will came back with great stories and images, but the best is to follow me on instagram for a day to day update ! Will also post here archives from last year all along the week...

 

 

 

So, as you know if you read this, we are in a new home, back in France for 2 months, and it seems I look at it differently... Having the phone &  instagram always near my hand, make me want to shoot on a day to day basis to report all what I do, see, feel... So, here comes a visual sum up of the great moments of the past 2 months. What I love the most in France is his history, is graphic history. There are vintage type everywhere if you watch it !

 

There are 2 vintage suitcases labels found on an old box found in my grand mother attic :

 

I also drove a lot ! Went to Uzès, Marseille, Montpellier, Nîmes...

 

I also went to Clermont-Ferrand to met friends and clients, or to be precise friends which are clients... mediafix where I was art director, and the www.unairdevoyage.com shop for which I am working on a redesign.

 

 

I also had the chance to met Piers Faccini, and see him live in an amazing old church from the 12th century.

 

I also work on the Mr Cup products, thank for all the orders that make me wants to do more...

 

We spend a lot of nights at our friends guest house "Les Sardines aux yeux bleus" and it is also one of the project I am working on now.

 

And we have a new member in our family ! A horse, well a big poney called Nounours !!! It is the dark one, but I love this picture of the white horse done at the place where Nounous stays (it is to big to have a room in our new house).

 

Some picture of what I love the most in France : light and vintage painting walls...

 

I order some of my own products at society6 to check the quality and it is very nice...

 

And the new house ! We are so happy to found this, an old 18th century house amazingly well renovated... A lot of things will happen here !

 

And I can do my favorit sport : hunting old packaging and type related items on fleamarket on sunday ! Last time was a very good day !

 

All that to say I am happy to be back. First month was not easy, but now I know, we know we took the good decision and a lot of things will hapen ! I am working on a lot of new projects and one of the them is the 2014 letterpress calendar ! I share all this with you to tell you, if you need to remind, that "life is beautfull" !

 

Back in april... During our last trip in Singapore in april (before going back to France after 7 months in Bali and 1 years and half without home !), Yah-Leng Yu & Arthur Chin, of Foreign Policy Design group (read "Nice to meet you" article here) invite us to see their city ! After visiting nice art galleries, they bring us to Haji Lane street, a nice street full of independant stores and coffee shops... The funny thing is that it was the street behind our hotel but we will not have seen it without them ! Some pictures took in this nice walking street far away from the craziness of the usual Singapore mall.





























More in the Life and travels section

I try to never apologize because I did not post, but I have so much done this week, so few time online... I am now back in the south of France, checking 7 months of mail is something... among them I found nice greetings cards, calendar and other gifts received for the new year and the amazing Luminare poster by Kevin Cantrell... simply a masterpiece !!! Thank you so much for all that, sorry to haven't been able to post on all of them...

 

The CSHH coffee (Chye Seng Huat Hardware) is a new, but already famous, coffee shop in Singapore. But it is not only that, it is also a coffee school and you can found everything for fan of coffee... I love the "capsules are dead" causers. The problem of travelling for so long is that you have to limitate your bagages, otherwise I would buy a lot of things in this shop... Introduced by the nice guys of the ACRE team (will talk about them soon) I had the chance to have a private visit of all the place, even the offices and baristas teaching rooms... memories...

































CSHH coffee (Chye Seng Huat Hardware)