23
December
2016

I think holiday is a great time to work on my own identity work. Now I launch the new mrcup-shop.com and mrcup-studio.com websites, I think a multi-cards would be great and this one by Carosello is really inspiring! I want to share it as soon as I see it on The designers league facebook group created by Tom Ludd... Tom who design a page for the letterpress-calendar.com... you follow me ? No ? Whatever, enjoy the images...


















05
December
2016

Tomorrow, I will do a visit to Studio Pression to finish the printing of the letterpress calendar ! JC, the man behind it, works like a Christmas elf for the past days to have it ready ! Then it will be my turn to pack and send them !
If you haven't get your copy yet, hurry up as the wood cover edition is almost sold out ! Check www.letterpress-calendar.com, and here come some teasing details !










Get it now at www.letterpress-calendar.com
30
November
2016

Earlier in November, I was invited by Adobe France to live and cover the Adobe Max Event in San Diego, where the brand presents its new features and updates. I went there with 2 other french creatives, Geoffrey Dorne, a global creative activist, and Olivier Huard, an amazing pixel artist! We create a small blog for the event that we update live from there... This experience will deserve more than one post and I hope to find time to do that...








Adobe presents all the updates on their tools, of course, and I know dedicated technical websites and blogs will present them better than I do. And if you like these kinds of new things, you are already aware of them. Adobe presents Sensei, which is hard to explain as it is not a new tool but more a global improvement of creativity. More in ink and paper, I see in the innovations Adobe presented this year all the possibilities that this offers to the creation of print. I already imagine how Sensei will be able to evolve the collaborative process of creating a magazine, to work with others on the same project simultaneously in order to feed your creation on what the other team member does when he does it. Also, the most inspiring tools for me presented there are the improvements of Spark (now Adobe Express) which is so useful to do quick videos or images with text on social media!


Adobe also presents talks by inspiring people. One of them was just... Quentin Tarantino! Yes, the one and only. It was just WOW!


I spend a lot of time in the community pavilion to meet a lot of creatives I follow for a long time! Such a pleasure to see in real amazing prints and items! I almost run to "The French paper company" (which has a French only name!), their stand is just pure happiness! They give away amazing posters, samples of packaging, coasters, and other amazing papers good all designed by Charles S. Anderson design co.!






Another exciting project present at Max is the "national poster retrospecticus". It is a traveling exhibition of 400 posters created by more than 125 designers. Their mission is to celebrate the art of poster, handmade aesthetics and share their enthusiasm. It was also great to see Fields notes new products or DKNG posters.






I was eager to meet Mama Sauce, a passionate printer in letterpress and silkscreen. Their booth proposes the experience of print, in the heart of Adobe's speech: "Experience is everything"! So I printed a poster in silkscreen, then cut it out in postcards to finish them in letterpress... It was also the chance to hug Nick Sambrato, the man behind Mama Sauce.




I have done so many things in 3 days! One of the high moment was to interview Aaron Draplin and Tomaz Opasinski, for which I will dedicate an article later on and probably in the next Walter magazine! Because the best thing was to meet all these creatives in real, such as Tad Carpenter and so much more!




Thanks again to Adobe for the invitation and the big shot of inspiration!
27
October
2016

After weeks of work, I am pleased to present my new portfolio. It will be now under the mrcup-studio.com name as after working freelance for years, I am now in a real studio with Jef working with me. He designs this website and I thanks him for that, I guess it is important to have a new eye on your own work ! An important thing to was to separate the project for what I was commissioned to do by clients and companies and the work on I self-initiated and do with other designers and creatives like the letterpress calendar and the Walter magazine done with the mediafix team !
Here come some of the latest works I have done over the past work and never found time to present in details !

















