I.Design signage

Signage is a largely commonplace field, and its media even more so. While graphic design often meets aesthetic and functional criteria, the media themselves remain mostly standardized. However, my experience over several years working with media featuring identity-based design (I.Design) shows how something perceived as an add-on can become a prominent feature, taking on a different role in the landscape and a different function.

Photograph of a design totem in folded and powder-coated steel, This sign, designed to identify and provide information about an outdoor exhibition or event space, includes the name and description of the workshop, as well as directional symbols.

Prehistory Park

In the heart of the Pyrenees, the Prehistoric Park is a unique site set within a vast natural area, featuring numerous educational installations and organised around a large building with modern lines and colours, housing a museum and various services. My intervention took place within this strong architectural and landscape setting, where the radically lined construction contrasts sharply with the site’s pervasive nature and its mountain environment. For this design, I aligned myself with the existing contrast, avoiding the false pretences associated with the Park’s very theme, by finding my own expression of modernity—one that lends full temporal depth to the prehistoric theme.
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Welcome panel for the Niaux Cave, conceived as an attractive design support in material coherence with Massimiliano Fuksas's arch, which monumentally marks the Cave entrance. The panel, intended to display essential information prior to visiting the site, is a large square composed of Corten steel "scales" whose forms and assembly symbolize both the mechanism of a mechanical camera shutter, like a snapshot zooming into the past, and a metaphor for the cavern descending into the depths of earth and time.

Niaux Cave

Located at the entrance to the Niaux Cave, classified as a Historic Monument since 1911, this welcome panel is an extension of the monumental Corten steel work designed by architect Massimiliano Fuksas, which marks the site with a modern imprint while spectacularly enhancing it. My design, using the same material language, sought its own identity through a subtle interplay rooted in respect, coherence, and complementarity, to create signage that is understated yet original, evoking the depth of the cave into which visitors are about to enter.
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Design directional pole combining wood and metal, designed for an ecological golf course. Design: Alexandre Drabzak.

Ariège Departmental Ecogolf

The Ariège departmental golf course, located in Unjat, opted to make a radical change in its management of the grounds to become an “ecogolf”. On this occasion, I was consulted to create a set of signage that had to meet both a sustainable development objective and the creation of a new design identity befitting the prestige of a nationally recognized golf course.
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