ANTOINE+ MANUEL

GRAPHIC DESIGN

http://www.antoineetmanuel.com/ Associates since 1993, Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz, are two of the designers who, belonging to the first wave of graphic designers to work naturally with computer generated imagery,imposed their own radically innovative style, creating their typography and illustrations from collages and photographed three-dimensional models using paint smudges, felt pen and vector graphics software. Antoine+Manuel combine their personal visual expressions in a world in which dreams, the bizarre and Surrealism rub shoulders. Their work embraces sensation, emotion and touch. It was their penchant for visual exuberance which captivated Christian Lacroix. They redesigned his couture house’s visual identity and since 2002 have been designing the invitation cards for his shows. In 2009 Antoine+Manuel had their first retrospective exhibition at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris (January-May 2009). They also showed for the first time at the Milan furniture fair “Cabinet, Tout va bien” a sideboard produced by BD Barcelona. At the end of 2009 till mid-February 2010 their Paris exhibition moved to Hong Kong in a totally new scenography they specially created for the HK Heritage Museum (November 2009-February 2010), showing most of their works in a monumental installation named Graphic Village.