03 October 2008
THE UPGRADE! PARIS #18 with Etienne Mineur
This evening, the amazing interaction designer Etienne Mineur is giving a talk within the context of The Upgrade! Paris. He's going to present his experimental work carried out for major international companies, like Issey Mikaye. Etienne is one of the few people I know who's able to be edgy, ambitious and explorative within a web commercial context. In his blog, My-Os,he regularly presents his work and reviews with a sharp eye things he likes or dislikes (mostly anything related to the French national train company SNCF's communication).
I've first met him as my teacher at the Fine Arts school almost ten years ago and he's still the same humble and enthusiastic person that he was then. I'll be happy to moderate this talk this evening at the invitation of Julie Morel, who organises The Upgrade! Paris with Incident.net.
-- Joëlle
THE UPGRADE! PARIS #18
Etienne Mineur / at Beton Salon, Paris - 3 oct. 08, 7pm
(English below)
• Beton Salon
9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
Rez-de-Chaussee de la Halle aux Farines.
75013 Paris.
Underground station: Bibliotheque F. Mitterand
+33.(0)1.45.84.17.56
For the last 3 years, Etienne Mineur has developed www.my-os.net. The blog’s aim is to enquire about the relation between graphic design and technologies. For Upgrade! # 18, he will present his interactive projects, focussing on his experiments for Issey Miyake.
Born in May 1968. Art director for many independent agencies such as “Hyptique” (Paris) and “Nofrontiere” (Vienna, Austria), Etienne has also co-founded “Incandescence” and work there as the artistic director.
Moderation: Joelle Bitton. Joelle Bitton is an artiste, an interactive designer, and the founder of Superficiel.org.
http://incident.net/theupgrade
upgrade@incident.net
Thanks to Melanie Bouteloup & Beton Salon Team.
I've first met him as my teacher at the Fine Arts school almost ten years ago and he's still the same humble and enthusiastic person that he was then. I'll be happy to moderate this talk this evening at the invitation of Julie Morel, who organises The Upgrade! Paris with Incident.net.
-- Joëlle
THE UPGRADE! PARIS #18
Etienne Mineur / at Beton Salon, Paris - 3 oct. 08, 7pm
(English below)
• Beton Salon
9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet.
Rez-de-Chaussee de la Halle aux Farines.
75013 Paris.
Underground station: Bibliotheque F. Mitterand
+33.(0)1.45.84.17.56
For the last 3 years, Etienne Mineur has developed www.my-os.net. The blog’s aim is to enquire about the relation between graphic design and technologies. For Upgrade! # 18, he will present his interactive projects, focussing on his experiments for Issey Miyake.
Born in May 1968. Art director for many independent agencies such as “Hyptique” (Paris) and “Nofrontiere” (Vienna, Austria), Etienne has also co-founded “Incandescence” and work there as the artistic director.
Moderation: Joelle Bitton. Joelle Bitton is an artiste, an interactive designer, and the founder of Superficiel.org.
http://incident.net/theupgrade
upgrade@incident.net
Thanks to Melanie Bouteloup & Beton Salon Team.
Labels: Design, Etienne Mineur, Interaction, The Upgrade Paris, Web
24 September 2007
Portrait, Restored
A new look and feel for my online portfolio: the content is restructured around a denser information architecture and the colors are darker. I thought that after almost 3 years since I first designed it, it needed some face lift like when you redo the painting in your house. It also makes better sense that way in my current job hunting strategy, the efficiency of which I'll report about later...
06 July 2007
For Sale
Last time I went to Japan, I brought back with me beautiful deco objects, that I found either in Tokyo or in Kyoto.
I'm travelling there again in 3 weeks to exhibit an installation.
I will also shop again for striking singular objects and I decided this time to take orders in advance to see if I can make a revenue out of my numerous trips around the world.
Here's a sample of different objects I got last time from amazing handcrafters: very thin porcelain hand-painted sake glass, ceramic cups designed after flower shapes, sake set, glass bottles, worked-metal plates and utensils, dyed textiles to hang on walls or use in the kitchen, genmaicha or hojicha teas... To give you an idea, prices varied for these between 10 euros and 100 euros.
If you're interested in details, let me know: joelle |at| superficiel.org
--Joëlle
I'm travelling there again in 3 weeks to exhibit an installation.
I will also shop again for striking singular objects and I decided this time to take orders in advance to see if I can make a revenue out of my numerous trips around the world.
Here's a sample of different objects I got last time from amazing handcrafters: very thin porcelain hand-painted sake glass, ceramic cups designed after flower shapes, sake set, glass bottles, worked-metal plates and utensils, dyed textiles to hang on walls or use in the kitchen, genmaicha or hojicha teas... To give you an idea, prices varied for these between 10 euros and 100 euros.
If you're interested in details, let me know: joelle |at| superficiel.org
--Joëlle
Labels: Deco, Design, Japan, Sale
17 June 2007
Superdrugs
In England, it's fun to shop, even at the pharmacy. Mainly because of the packaging of products: lots of nice colours combinations, attractive layouts, great fonts, texts that talk to you (the customer) as a friend ("pop by anytime at our headquarters"), etc...
I had to bring back few samples.
Poppets are yummy chocolate sweets filled with toffee (the yummiest), mint cream, raisins or orange cream first launched in 1937 and they underwent a major lifting last year. I just noticed them so I guess the new marketing plan works well.
Other candy temptations are sugar-free Hotlix's lollipop with a cricket twist.. I guess, they're surfing on Edible's wave that I wrote about in this blog a couple of years ago ("The last culinary territory to conquest"). I came across the lollipops as they were given away during the Go-North festival, a rock/folk music festival taking place in Inverness this year. I'm not sure I got the obvious link between the 2 themes. Maybe as a hommage to rock bands from the fifties and sixties who bore insect names like the Beatles?
More sugar: I like the straightforwardness of this one.
A candy look-and-feel but very medical: anti-travel sickness tablets. The packaging makes you want to ride again and again so you get to take one of their pills and feel so happy to be traveling.
Finally, I've always been attracted to designs that use the famous eye-doctor test board. I know it's a classic but in this case, it's very appropriate. Also, it's the best design ever I've seen for a contact lens solution. And it's made by a chain and they usually don't put so much effort into their own product packages, so it's something to acknowledge.
-- Joëlle.
I had to bring back few samples.
Poppets are yummy chocolate sweets filled with toffee (the yummiest), mint cream, raisins or orange cream first launched in 1937 and they underwent a major lifting last year. I just noticed them so I guess the new marketing plan works well.
Other candy temptations are sugar-free Hotlix's lollipop with a cricket twist.. I guess, they're surfing on Edible's wave that I wrote about in this blog a couple of years ago ("The last culinary territory to conquest"). I came across the lollipops as they were given away during the Go-North festival, a rock/folk music festival taking place in Inverness this year. I'm not sure I got the obvious link between the 2 themes. Maybe as a hommage to rock bands from the fifties and sixties who bore insect names like the Beatles?
More sugar: I like the straightforwardness of this one.
A candy look-and-feel but very medical: anti-travel sickness tablets. The packaging makes you want to ride again and again so you get to take one of their pills and feel so happy to be traveling.
Finally, I've always been attracted to designs that use the famous eye-doctor test board. I know it's a classic but in this case, it's very appropriate. Also, it's the best design ever I've seen for a contact lens solution. And it's made by a chain and they usually don't put so much effort into their own product packages, so it's something to acknowledge.
-- Joëlle.
Labels: Design, Graphic design, Packaging design
