Iris and The Giant is a fusion of the CCG, RPG and roguelike genres. You play as Iris, who must brave her fears in her imaginary world. Dive into a melancholic and gripping adventure, filled with cute monsters and buried memories. Ready to face your inner demons?
Iris is now published by Goblinz Studio and will be launched end of 2019 on Steam (page already here!)
In this book in the shape of a big top, a little family of heteroclite and talented artists is getting ready for their big number! Entering the stage one after the other, a great human pyramid forms under the eyes of the readers.
With Anouck Boisrobert. Published in November 2018 by helium and available in bookstores.
My new video game is waiting for beta testers ! Iris & the giant is a turn-based card game, mixing puzzle game, RPG and roguelike gameplay. Iris is distressed. It feels like someone is crying inside her chest. She will have to fight her own demons to climb up the level of her mind to finally meet the giant and find a way to comfort him...
VERSO is our first artist's book created with Anouck Boisrobert. It has been screen printed at Paris Print Club by Tristan Pernet. It is a big leporello pop-up on the theme of the border between two peoples, each living on one side of the mountain.
Éditions Francs marmots. Hand-made. 18x35cm format. 100 copies, numbered and signed. 120€.
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Risography 'Famille Acrobate" ! For the book launch this evening at the '11e Salon du livre animé' and tomorrow at 'Le Musée de poche'!
With Anouck Boisrobert. Printed by Studio Fidèle.
Join us at Rennes during the festival 'Les P'tits bouquineurs'. We created the poster of the festival and we exhibit our book "That's My Hat!" with a lots of sketches and mock-up.
The second part of tip tap, an interactive picture book. Book and screen come together to offer kids an amazing word initiation game ... in English! Start the game and tap on the keyboard the letters of the word you chose in the book: the associated image appears instantly on the screen. You can complete and enliven the scene by giving life to the two hundred or so words of the book. Enlarge or shrink the elements, change their color, drop the night, accelerate or slow down the speed of animals and vehicles, listen to the words or a guitar tune ... an infinite number of possibilities allow the child for create crazy and fantastic worlds, each time unique, while learning about writing and reading. Created with Anouck Boisrobert.
published in september 2017 at helium and available in bookshop.
Poster designed for "la fête du livre animé" (pop-up book fest in Paris). More information here and on the facebook page of the event.
Exhibition of original artworks, mock-ups, giant pop-up and sketches at the Hyundai Museum of Kids' books and Art, Seoul. From July to December 2017, this exhibition presents all our children books and apps with a very playful way. Each project is the subject of creative games or workshops for kids.
Diorama created for the exhibition "Struwwelpeter recoiffé" at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017.
Children app designed with kids during a three days workshop in the multimedia library of Montreuil. It's all about monsters and how to blow them away.
Small pop-up card created for the Hyundai Museum of Kids' books and Art, Seoul, on the occasion of our exhibition.
Cinno Star was created during a summer camp in the cinematheque of Bologna, Italy, in june 2016. We were invited with Anouck Boisrobert by Hamelin to conduct a one week workshop with 25 children. Together, we imagined this musical game. Children created music bands, draw and animate their musicians before recording sounds.
Pop-up greating card designed for "la fête du livre animé 2017" (pop-up book fest in Paris). More information here and on the facebook page of the event.
Plouf & Floup is a book and an app, created with two classes of primary school in La Rochelle. Dive into an imaginary underwater world full of fantastic animals.
The exhibition from the book "Oh! Mon chapeau", published by helium ("That's my hat", published by Thames & Hudson). Original artworks, mock-ups, blank models and sketches show all the steps of this book projects. This exhibition was created by imagier vagabond.
Three coloring pop-up books with cut-out shapes, foldings, embossing. Binded in a accordeon way (leporello), they can be completly unfold to be colored and exhibited. Published in September 2015 by helium and available in bookstores.
A digital pop-up book created by children from Valenciennes. Story, texts, voices, pop-up and animations were created by kids from 6 to 11 years old with me and their teachers.
Conception and webdesign for the publishing house "hélium". Based on the graphic design by Philippe Bretelle.
Graphic design and illustration for the Christmas campaign of the Grand Front Osaka, a huge mall by the Osaka train station. Anouck Boisrobert made the illustration and I designed the pop-up of the Santa Claus factory.
You can find here a quite funny video made from our works.
I made the graphic design and the illustration of this innovative app : "Sur les Bancs" (on the bench) is the first app in sound augmented reality which offers bubbles of short stories, geolocation-based in the parks of Paris. Find out more : surlesbancs.com
Big pop-up book (70x70cm) showing the history and the urban planning of a Northern French city like Lille or Bruxelles, from the medieval times to nowadays. This project was commissionned by the CAUE du Nord and is based on our popville book.
Collaborative book with the primary school of Arromanches during an artist residency at la Villa La Brugère.
This video was made for the TV show 'Karambolage', broadcast on arte. Ohrwurm is the german word for earwigs. This small insect symbolize a tune that keep turning in your head.
Animation on the history and the architecture of Brussels. Made for "Bruxelles Pop-up", a serie of games and educationnal tools to understand the city. Illustrations of Anouck Boisrobert.
For the first time, book and screen come together to offer children an incredible game to learn words. Children can type on his keyboard any words of his pictures book : the image of the word appears on the screen. One by one, the drawings create an animated scene. Make elements bigger or smaller, change their colors, make the snow fall, accelerate or slow down vehicules, listen to the words or to a guitar tune... endless possibilities for the children to create fantastic small worlds, and be initiated to reading and writing. Created with Anouck Boisrobert. Publish in 2011 by helium et available in bookstores.
Collaborative greating card for this year under the sign of the goat. Draw me a sheep !
Oops ! Looks like you just turn into a frog !? But fortunately, you found the good place : the mysterious spider tower. In that scary castle, full of weird spiders, a terrific princess is waiting for you. Her well-known magic kiss will give you back your human appearance. Are you ready to face ferocious boss, solve tricky riddles, move both your brain and fingers in the same time... The way will be hard to the top of the tower, 50 levels, thousands of spiders and vicious traps are waiting for you...
"In a pop-up city, from the zoo to the skyscrapers through the bakery and the library, stolen by a mischievous monkey, a hat zigzags, disappears behind the sets, then rises again ever higher !". Our new pop-up book "Oh ! Mon chapeau" published by helium, in bookstores.
Poster of the movie "Regards sur nos assiettes" directed by Pierre Beccu in 2015. A journalistic investigation into the food made by six students. From their plates to the soil, they track back the food and the impact of our choices as consumers.
An illustration from our book "Océano" created in Frankfurt for the exhibition Kindheitsräume. Kindheitsträume. From Septembre to February 2015. More pictures on the website of our German publisher Jacoby Stuart.
Tropical Plants overrunned the little ski ressort of Gourette, French Pyrenees. A treasure hunting game in the snow where pop-up flower made of plastic papers have to be found. Made with Anouck Boisrobert for the Vertigo comics festival.
This video was made for the TV show 'Karambolage', broadcast on arte. Dicke Bertha is the nickname of a huge cannon used by the German during World War I.
This year we illustrated the helium stand at the Montreuil book fair in the world of tip tap, mon imagier interactif.
Conception and webdesign of a puppets company website "Les chaussettes en pâte à modeler". This website was programmed with the help of Wordpress and Nicolas Laurio.
Workshop with the inhabitants of Mons en Barœul about the transformation of their district. The first one week workshop ended with the creation of two big pop-up books.
Tip tap city was created by 3 classes of primary school, during the salon du livre jeunessse de Chaumont. Based on the book tip tap, mon imagier interactif, each child designed an element of the city with cut out colored papers.
Poster designed for the Villeurbanne children book fest. We were guest of honor of this edition 2013. We also create an exhibition from our last pop-up books. This exhibition is now available at the Centre de Creations Pour l'Enfance.
Our new pop-up book Océano published by helium. For this publication we exhibit out original artworks and mock-up. Come and join us at the musée de poche.
Twenty puzzling and weird stories, imagined, draw and told by the children. Created during a two weeks workshop in 10 classes of the school Saint-Exupéry, Villeurbanne.
Graphic design, poster and leaflet created for the communication of the National Council of the French music schools CFMI.
Copy and clone try to explain the effect of biotechnology in the food-processing industry. Through the window of your computer, watch the evolution of agriculture from a few cows wandering in a field to genetic modification. Suddenly, the 'copy and paste' of the machine invade the real life.
"All hands on deck, the day of departure of Oceano has arrived ! We leave the port for a great expedition around the world. The Ocean awaits us!" Our third pop-up book published by helium has for theme the ocean. With Anouck Boisrobert, we found a pop-up system that lifts a paper sea in the middle of the book. Doing so, we represent the upper and lower side of 6 different marine landscapes. A crowded harbor, iced transparent icebergs, whales at sea, a violent storm and finally the idyllic lagoon with thousands of colorful fishes.
Published in April 2013 by helium and available in bookstores.
Website created during the WIF 2012 (Webdesign International Festival). With Anouck Boisrobert, we received the 1st prize by answering a theme dear to our heart : the school of the future.
This accordion book illustrate one by one the stanzas of the famous poem by Paul Eluard. This book has been designed with Anouck Boisrobert and published by Flammarion.
Three days workshop with fifteen students of the Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg.
Four days workshop at the Haute École Albert Jacquard, Namur. Creation of a pop-up book from scratch, with colored papers only.
Website created during the short-listing of the WIF 2012 (Webdesign International Festival). The theme was "interactive design and sustainable development". With Anouck Boisrobert, we imagined an off the wall concept : GreenGeek.
Interactive greating card inspired by the illustrations of our last book, Tip tap.
Our book "in the forest" was out of stock for several months. It will be available again on March 28th. This time, our little forest was was translated in several countries : Japan, US, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Catalonia, Germany, England...
Serie of 26 episodes which approach different aspects of chemistry. universcience.tv gave me the direction and the animation of this serie, with the help of Thomas Schwartz (sound design), Anne-Sophie Nallino (voice) and of the centre de vulgarisation scientifique (texts). All the episodes can be watch on universcience.tv.
A digital greating card created during a workshop in the toy library of Tourcoing.
As part of a residence INSITU (2010-2011) in college Leon-Jouhaux, Livry-Gargan, the anthropologist Nicolas Césard, the schoolchildren and their teachers, undertook an investigation on the relation between humans and insects in beekeeping. The purpose of this site is to show those relationships through meetings with beekeepers. The students question beekeepers about their knowledge and practices, to lay the contours, and finally to ask a fundamental question : what is a good beekeeper ?
The city as a living body that is born, develops and differentiate its buildings and functions: from the very first nucleus (an isolated church among the trees in the countryside) to the huge metropolis crowded with streets, pylons, factories and stations. Some urban and landscape elements remain constant references for the growth of the city, while others simply disappear and make place to new ones. What lasts is the steady stream of occasions and possibilities which, in the book just like in reality, remain unpredictable till the moment of turning the page. Published by helium in 2009 and available in bookstores.
★ Concours des plus beaux livres français 2009
The city as a living body that is born, develops and differentiate its buildings and functions: from the very first nucleus (an isolated church among the trees in the countryside) to the huge metropolis crowded with streets, pylons, factories and stations. Some urban and landscape elements remain constant references for the growth of the city, while others simply disappear and make place to new ones. What lasts is the steady stream of occasions and possibilities which, in the book just like in reality, remain unpredictable till the moment of turning the page. Published by helium in 2009 and available in bookstores.
★ Concours des plus beaux livres français 2009
