From Los Angeles
to France.
A graphic and motion designer since 2003, I design brands and set them in motion, from a logo to a full broadcast package. Sixteen years in the United States, all of them in Los Angeles, before returning to France in 2013. I earned a certificate in Computer Graphics and Graphic Design at UCLA Extension, and taught myself motion design (After Effects).
Freelancing in France since 2013: brand identity, motion design, packaging and websites for French- and English-speaking clients, from Nutridays to Noëlle Keruzoré.
I did not come to design through art school. A master's in economics in Besançon in 1994, a credit analyst internship, then Los Angeles: from 1997 to 2003 I taught computing at the Lycée Français, where I wrote the HTML and office-software curriculum. It taught me two things I still use every day: code, and how to explain an idea to someone who does not know it yet.
The next ten years were spent in American studios: NBC Universal, FX Networks, Spike TV, Precision Post. In television, the air date does not move. You deliver in the format asked for, on time, no discussion. I brought that discipline back to France in 2013, and it is why a quote from me carries a delivery date, not an estimate.
Freelance, France
Motion design (Nutridays, Océania Hotels), brand identity (Hydrascore, Bioscore, Noëlle Keruzoré), print, packaging and websites (Fill'Print, Noëlle Keruzoré Studios). Brands I have worked with for years: Hydrascore since 2014, from logo to packaging, from 3D visuals to advertising.
Motion Designer, Los Angeles
NBC Universal (Pepsi, TurboTax), FX Networks, Precision Post, Grayscale Creative, Spike/UFC, Soul Train Music Awards, Epiphany Pictures. On-air branding, title sequences and commercials, from concept to delivery: animation, tracking, rotoscoping, and the effects nobody is meant to notice, like replacing a sky, a sidewalk or the foam on a cup of coffee.
Graphic Designer, Los Angeles
ViaWorldwide, ABC, Epiphany Pictures: channel branding, film launches, and my first websites (Carnot Investissement). The move from print to screen, and the first animations that led me to motion design.
Lycée Français de Los Angeles
Computer science teacher: created an HTML and Microsoft Office curriculum, managed a team of 5 supervisors. Six years spent making technical things understandable, and my first HTML pages, the ones still behind the websites I design today.
Besançon, France
Master's degree in Economics, Université de Franche-Comté, followed by a credit analyst internship at ADED (Doubs economic development agency). A degree that leads nowhere near design, but teaches you to read how a business actually works before drawing its brand.
Archives
Showreel · 2014 archive
The reel that served as my calling card for years, posted in November 2014. One minute forty-eight of the Los Angeles years and the early freelance work. It belongs here, with the rest of the background.