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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