France — VISUALOUNGE

Malika Favre

Malika Favre has drawn for Vogue, Penguin and The New Yorker, working in flat colour and hard edges borrowed from graphic design.

Brooklyn-based French illustrator Marie Assénat draws humorous characters, with clients including Le Chocolat Des Français and the French Open.

A Nuits Sonores 2015 programme cover of torn colour bands, and a poster whose organic mass shifts from orange to blue.

Maite Franchi builds kitchen and fruit scenes from bold grain, turning leaves blue and laying a kettle, bread and eggs over pale green.

Damien Poulain's LOVE cover cuts white letters and red marks into black slabs, and his paper work builds characters from flat blue shapes.

Astro covers a building facade in black-and-white calligraphy, then paints a teal rectangle that reads as a corridor receding into the wall.

JR covers the Louvre's glass pyramid in photographic prints of the museum itself, so the structure vanishes against the palace facade.

Avant Post's identity for AM is an orange circle around an A with an M beside it, set small on dark brown and white cards.

Julien Malland paints large faceless figures onto rural buildings: a kneeling figure on a brick house, a pair back to back under a canal footbridge.

Recent work from French illustrator Nicolas Dehghani.

Murmure's business card carries its own argument: good design is for good clients, set in heavy lowercase on thick charcoal stock.

Don't Try Studio's card set is five letterpress inks and white foil on triplex Colorplan, printed with loose line drawings.

Valérie Hugo drew an illustrated alphabet in ink, building each letter from flora and fauna: a dahlia, curling leaves, a toucan on a B.

Frédéric Lagrange photographs the Tsz Shan Monastery: a white Guanyin above the hills, monks at prayer and calligraphy in progress.

Paris graphic designer Sara Haraigue builds images by cutting photographs away to flat colour, then layering type and paint over what remains.