Plateform Mag #5 (EN)

INTERVIEW Describe us your universe...

Whether it’s in everyday life or in my work I like to evolve in a colored and cheerful universe. I’m very influenced by the 60’s and 70’s, by the pop, lightness and warmth which come from that time, it’s appealing and inspiring.

Your sources of inspiration...

Everyday life, true life, the little things on which I like to linger and try to extract from the ordinariness. I get my inspiration from people around me too. I like Pedro Almodovar, David Lachapelle, Cindy Sherman, David Hockney, Sophie Calle...(to name a few). I feed on their work and huge talent.

Your way of creating...

Creation is quite linked with emotion, I take a lot of photos and I use them for my compositions. I collect papers, old advertisings, materials... The trend is to take old photographs of Playboy and give it a second breath, a new youth! It takes its place at random whether what I feel like, inspiration, mood of the moment. I rarely know where I’m going when I start to work on an illustration and that’s what I like about it.

Words and images...

The letter (Letraset mostly) gives a dynamic aspect to the composition. Words come naturally upon the visual, they become a part of it and give informations on what I want to expose, they lead the viewer but let them interpret.

Any projects, any desire?

I think I’ll take further the illustrations ink/photographs/Letraset, and make a serie, like a travelling notebook, of a graphical road movie on route 66, with its codes and atmosphere I appreciate particularly. To be continued then... www.cacodesign.com