A little about myself

Design is what I do, it’s part of who I am. I love it, I hate it, I love and hate it all over again. It isn’t similar to running in a circle because after each lap the circle expands bigger with knowledge, experience and understanding.

As I was raised in both Paris and New York, two of the world's greatest cities, I have a diverse cultural background that has led me to where I am today. Education is a never ending book from which I read and learn similar to the way one quenches his thirst on a hot day.

In tenth grade, when I was at the Lycée Français de New York, we had a two week mandatory internship culminating in a written and oral exam. I found an internship at Raison Pure, a french design firm, that was located then in Soho. Working there was an experience that I will never forget. I was working with a graphic designer who was designing a glass bottle for Pepsi, linked with the 2007 World Cup, which gave me my first idea in the realm of design: to have a soccer player kick the ball so hard that it would create a trail of flames all around the bottle. I enjoyed being part of their team and learning to use the programs I would later use in college.

However, most of all, I enjoyed seeing my idea come to life. In the end, I was rewarded with the Best Intern Award of 2006 with a paid internship at Crédit Commercial et Industriel (CIC) a french bank in 2007.
That award and my internship at CIC made me realize that graphic design is what I want to do. In graphic design as in martial art nothing is perfect and everything can endlessly be improved on, our technique, our fluidity, our strength, everything. I will never get to a point and say: “That’s it! I am done.”

“If an entity is perfect, then there is no room from improvement. It is banal.”