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2005“Up side down, in love with a typographer, I went in love with typography… What does the A mean? Amour, »A wie Anfang«, Art, Affiche? Eroticism comes from details… I wish you to write your own love letter with this image.” FC
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2011“This image is my contribution to Fundación Baby in Rosario, Argentina, which assumes a commitment to social problems. An exhibition will take place at the Rosario design center CdD, commissioned by Pablo Kunst, director and graphic designer.
My youngest daughter Violette worked with me. She wrote many trials of ‘At school only’ to get one good. Repetition and right to make mistakes are some of my teaching principles, so I put them all on my black board.
I must precise that she got pocket money for that job and, as I already used her beautiful inimitable handwriting on two of my posters (Louise/The Bears and The Night Even Not Afraid), she toughly negotiated!” FC
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2007 There was another September 11th: the Pinochet coup in Chili, 1973, also a Tuesday. How to speak about an event I could not live like the terror attack in New York? I was five years old, we have only a few images of Chili from this time. How to preserve memory of History for future generations? Will they forget 9.11.2001 in like we forgot 9.11.1973? This is the official portrait of the president Salvador Allende, with the “11” shapes of my poster for NY.
I gave this topic at a poster workshop I gave at University of Art and Design Helsinki (Finland) in October 2007 and at Maryse Eloy Art School of Paris in November 2007. The respond of the students, coming from different countries, was fantastic. I did also an image after them, as a mutual interaction and emotion. Later in 2008, a selection of these students’ posters was edited in the book “Design School Confidential by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico”.
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2002“I designed this poster in September 2002 for the first commemoration of this dramatic event. I saw so many images in 2001, turning around for months and I was so chocked that I couldn't add any one more. A year later, I needed to express myself about 9.11 and I sent this e-poster to all my friends on D-day. I wanted a silent image, a moment of reverence. I simplified the view of the buildings in order to focus on the event itself and use our memory. This image was published in magazines and newspaper then. Ten years later, it is still a date…” FC
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2007Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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2009Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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2009Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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By Carlo Branzaglia in Experimenta, architecture and design magazine worldwide
François Caspar is driven by a creative exuberance. A designer with a vibrant eye, he uses a combination of practice, experience, functionality and communication to confront his work. For Caspar, a poster is a tool for linguistic research that has many levels of sophistication. Widely known for his defence of professional culture, his work stands out for its high-quality, its focus on the international scene, its pragmatism and its visual culture.
François Caspar’s posters have been awarded and shown in over a hundred of international exhibitions, they belong to public and private collections as in Paris, Hamburg or New York…
François Caspar’s posters have been published in specialized magazines or books such as Art and design (China), Etapes (France), Experimenta (Spain), Idea (Japan), Pixel Creation (France), Signes (France) and New Masters of Poster Design (USA)…
2011I came up with this image a few days after the eathquake and its consequences, send it to my friends in Japan. It was then published and sold during the Pecha Kucha international day “Inspire Japan” (400 cities participated), April 16 in Marseille (France). All money collected with other artists was donated to the association Architecture for Humanity in order to build a new school in Sendai.
This e-poster is also taking part of Art Tails, a charity art books App for Japan, a group of professional artists and creators related in different ways to the Japanese Tohoku area cities and communities who have joined together in an effort to help Tohoku in simple, yet creative ways.
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2005Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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2003“I worked on this image end of December 2002, published it in January for my greetings, when medias were preparing the world’s opinion to a new war in Irak for January 2003. When everybody send new year greetings… Unfortunately, this image can be reused again and again, wherever the war is…” FC
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2001“I designed this poster in August 2001. After the announcement the Olympics 2008 will take place in China, a Chinese graphic designer from Beijing emailed me to asked me to create an image to congratulate China. Today we have another vision of all China’s fantastic evolution, but I must say at this time, I was not in the mood to do so. First because Paris lost the competition, but also because China —not its great culture but the country— was unknown for me. My first version was more provocative, but would not have been published in China. Why to give a message if it is not passed on? This hope for medals and for better future was spread in magazines over China and I was many times invited there to give workshops. By the way, the graphic designer, Xiao Yong, whom later designed Beijing Olympics medals, became a friend.” FC
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2001Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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2001Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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2000Free download. Please, Enjoy & Share this e-poster (2000 x 2800px)
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Minutes, hours, days, years… are numbers in movement. When one draws a character, there is a movement too. So I used these both movements to show the year passing to another.
The technical and geometrical shapes of the typeface Transfer designed by Julien Janiszewski, founder of La Laiterie, an independent French type foundry based in Paris, fit perfectly with my purpose, so I use it as a base for my posters.
The first poster of this series was designed in december 2005 for my 2006 greetings. An exciting challenge was then to continue years after years. At the end of 2009, the question was: How to pass from a single figure on a vertical format, to a number with two figures and to stay vertical? (A real poster is vertical!) Numbers are combinations, so I logically used a combinations of two posters (as posters are reproductions). So, since 2010, there is two posters.
My next challenge is not to draw in the same way figures I already drew (what will happen when 2015 will turn to 2016?) and to continue counting as long as possible (the day I stop, I might be dead ;)
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The technical and geometrical shapes of the typeface Transfer designed by Julien Janiszewski, founder of La Laiterie, an independent French type foundry based in Paris, fit perfectly with my purpose, so I use it as a base for my posters.
The first poster of this series was designed in december 2005 for my 2006 greetings. An exciting challenge was then to continue years after years. At the end of 2009, the question was: How to pass from a single figure on a vertical format, to a number with two figures and to stay vertical? (A real poster is vertical!) Numbers are combinations, so I logically used a combinations of two posters (as posters are reproductions). So, since 2010, there is two posters.
My next challenge is not to draw in the same way figures I already drew (what will happen when 2015 will turn to 2016?) and to continue counting as long as possible (the day I stop, I might be dead ;)
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