Basile Fournier

(EN): Art Direction, Graphic Design and Product design for the Off-White™ FW23 “Lunar Delivery” show invitation. The invitation reflects the idea of an artifact coming from another world. It suggests a sense of nostalgia and preciousness. Creative direction, design and conception by Ibrahim Kamara, Anthony Bigazzi and Basile Fournier. Produced by L' imprimerie du marais Reproduction pictures by Margaux Piette.

(EN): RAM_1.0 is a project that originates from the collaboration between Sara and Artificial Intelligence. It’s a fictional narrative of her life, based on her personal visual archive, yet constructed and mediated by AI. The project explores the concept of memories and the importance of the construction of an archive within the digital realm. Focused on the interaction between images and text, she let AI analyse her memories to then reinterpret its captions and create new staged images. New fabricated memories take form as 5 different books and 5 slideshows presented on a modular installation. Floating between human and non-human, the dialogue between Sara and the machine originates and lets you get immersed in a new dataset of her memories through the gaze of technology.

(EN): A dream of counter-culture revolution. Introducing Slam Jam’s (Un)corporate Broadcast conceived along with Ill-Studio and SlamJam.
(Un)corporate Uniforms is a global expression–and ongoing research project–with the aim to understand and help define the concept of uniform. The distinctive clothing is intended to be worn by members of the same group, in order to unite and stand out among others.

(EN): CORE is a book designed for Marine Serre presenting archives of Marine’s previous collections and introducing the new F/W21 show looks.

(EN): Poster design, film credits, invitation design and interactive online platform created for the last film of Marine Serre called AMOR FATI.

(EN): Read only Memory is a speculative and fictitious design project that describes the concept of mind uploading through photographic images of landscapes taken by my grandfather, that symbolise his memories. It takes the form of a short film, with the aim of imagining how the transfer of a memory could be created and transformed into digital data that one could re-experience endlessly.

(EN): YOUNG GUNS is a fictional magazine about the influence of advertising and propaganda of fire arms on children in the USA. Through the pages, you can discover CGI Images of real guns customized to attract young people, and archives of old and recent advertising from big fire arms corporations.

(EN): Futur.e.s is my Bachelor thesis project, it talks about imagining the future of graphic design and creation at large. Through exemples of works that inspired me and my personal works, I've wrote an essay about various possible futures for the designers of today and speculate on what would be the next step in design. This book is also talking a lot about how technology affect us as human beings, and how it is represented in the realm of contemporary creation. It is about the new challenges that we are going to face as designers, and how we are going to imagine and shape the world of tomorrow.

(EN): Selection of posters and different layouts / proposals for The Nike Space Capsule campaign Referencing China’s first human spaceflight mission that took place in 2003, the Shenzhou 5. Made for the release of a pack containing three new Nike pairs.

(EN): Absurd adventures, fantasy fables and provoking plots, whimsical creatures and powerful princesses: TUSH 45 is a never-ending story.

(EN): Selection of Posters and visual direction proposals I did for CLOT, a fashion label based in Hong Kong.

(EN): White Smile™ is a publication gathering pictures took at Ardentis Clinical, confronted to white smiles of happy people.

(EN): Marcelo Burlon, a Patagonian transplant, took control of Menswear-Meca Milan under the nickname County of Milan. A modern mix of nightlife, music and clothing, County of Milan has become a global phenomenon. On Saturday, June 17, 2019, Marcelo Burlon presented Technofolk at the Palazzo delle Scintille of Milan Fashion Week. I created for this occasion a graphic and visual language in the form of labels and technical symbols that incorporate the textile, completed by a typographic system in the spirit of the collection, inspired by the sound of free parties and the world of cycling.

(EN): Poster I did for @iocus_poster on the theme copy; 01. an imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work (such as a letter, a painting, a table, or a dress)
02. one of a series of especially mechanical reproductions of an original impression
also : an individual example of such a reproduction.

(EN): KALEIDOSCOPE is today’s most innovative magazine of contemporary art and visual culture, founded in 2009 in Milan at the core of a creative studio with a distinctly curatorial and interdisciplinary approach.Released twice a year, the magazine is a meeting place for a global community of creative minds, drawn by an audacious art direction and ever-surprising contributions from visionary artists, writers and image-makers.

(EN): Atlanta is a typeface that is focused on the individual shapes of the letters, as if every letter could be an illustration or a graphic element, so each letter as a specific detail and offers an original shape. I experimented with the various depth of the ink traps of the characters. It is inspired by the rap movement coming from Atlanta originally called TRAP.

(EN): Super Paper is a Newspaper designed by the Bureau Borsche team every month, it talks about events in Munich, and it is a playground for graphic experimentations. This issue features the work of Diane Dal-Pra.

(EN): 0-Mono_Serif is a display typeface designed for poster and headlines. The concept of the specimen was to create hypothetical dreamed concerts posters.

(EN): {A Brighter Darkness} Is a video about meditation, data centers and dark thoughts.

(EN): How to become (almost) Invisible (on) Internet is a practical manual to make you almost completely anonymous and invisible online with 21 simple actions.

(EN): Dreamscape is a dystopian story on the quiet suburbs of Palmdale. The book features a series of images taken on google maps, showing an immersion across the screen in a suburb in the middle of the California desert, it talks about emptiness and an artificial happiness idealized.

(EN): Dreamscape is a dystopian story on the quiet suburbs of Palmdale. The book features a series of images taken on google maps, showing an immersion across the screen in a suburb in the middle of the California desert, it talks about emptiness and an artificial happiness idealized.
These posters are inserted within the pages of the book.

(EN): Lithography exploring the dark side of the internet.