Master memory:
"Graphic designer-collector - the collection as a model of graphic creation"
The layout of this thesis echoes the theme of the collection through several graphic systems:
The Red color :warm, sensual, it evokes the velvet of a case and brings a strong identity to the whole. The solid areas, accompanied by illustrative images, mark the separation between the different parts of the dissertation.
The keywords:placed in the margin of the main text, they provide the reader with points of reference like a classification.
The paper :on the title pages of the main parts, a semi-transparent paper recalls the tissue paper used in stamp albums or herbariums. He creates reading games with elegance and lightness.
Executives :connoting a collection of paintings, they support the value of the images in a refined way while giving rhythm to the layout.
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Summary :
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"While at present, the tools and supports of graphic design tend more and more towards dematerialization, what reasons would push a graphic designer to collect? The idea may seem absurd when digital technologies today offer access instantaneous to innumerable contents; while collecting requires a great investment of time and space, from collection to filing. However, it is in no way a waste of energy for the graphic designer: the collection constitutes both a creative process and a unique personal resource of forms, materials and representations For the graphic designer at work, collecting is not an end, but a means.
What are the interactions between the graphic designer and his collection? How is it an active method and an activated tool? Far from the dusty cliché of a classic collection where there is a place for everything and where everything is in its place, the graphic designer's collection reflects his profession: in perpetual transformation, both actor and witness of its environment, updating the past to build the future, always breaking its own rules. By drawing on the reflections of philosophers and writers, by analyzing the practices of graphic designers, designers and artists who have a strong link to the collection project, as well as through the spectrum of my own practice as a graphic designer -collector, this research aims to reveal the collection as an essential model of graphic creation."