Fubiz Talks 2018 – Meet Seb Lester

Les Fubiz Talks, organisés conjointement par Fubiz et l’agence TETRO, vous donnent rendez-vous pour une troisième édition le 4 octobre prochain dans la prestigieuse enceinte de la Salle Pleyel. De nombreux talents viendront révéler leurs inspirations et les secrets qui se cachent derrière leurs créations. Parmi eux, le calligraphe Seb Lester.

Seb Lester est un magicien des lettres. Ce calligraphe et typographe anglais captive son audience dès le premier regard. Il passe avec aisance du papier à la tablette, du simple crayon au stylet, pour offrir des créations impressionnantes de précision. Il a notamment imaginé des illustrations typographiques pour de grands annonceurs et institutions tels que la NASA, Apple, Nike, ou encore le New York Times.

Cet artiste hors du commun parvient à offrir un nouveau souffle à l’art de la calligraphie en profitant notamment de la puissance des médias sociaux. Parmi ses créations les plus remarquées figurent ses reproductions de logos de marques tels que Netfilx, adidas, Google ou encore Ferrari.

Un talent à l’état brut à découvrir le 4 octobre prochain à la Salle Pleyel. Vous pouvez d’ores et déjà vous munir de vos billets sur les billetteries de la Salle Pleyel, de la Fnac et Digitick.

Beautiful Mirror Shots by Laura Moreil

Depuis son enfance, la photographe Laura Moreil entretient une passion inconditionnelle pour la photographie. Ayant connu toute sorte d’appareils (le jetable, l’argentique et le numérique), son objectif premier reste le même : celui de garder une trace de l’instant présent. Il y a dix ans, ressentant une « envie irrépressible » de s’y mettre, elle choisit l’argentique et en fera sa technique privilégiée. Son choix n’est d’ailleurs pas anodin : il s’agit d’un moyen pour l’artiste de se détacher de la question de l’image parfaite, cadrée et nette.

Véritable terrain d’expérimentation, l’artiste a pu, de fait, découvrir de nombreux modes et techniques associés à l’argentique : multi-exposition, pellicule redscale, lomographie, construction d’une afghan box… Elle développe et réalise ses tirages par elle-même, maîtrisant ainsi la chaîne de réalisation du début à la fin. Cette technique lui permet ainsi d’élargir le champ de ses expériences photographiques, en termes d’image ou encore de matériel.


Emouvante et pleine d’éloquence, sa série « Broken » a été réalisée en vue d’une exposition collective avec l’association Aléa Club dont elle fait partie, tous ayant décidé de travailler sur le portrait. N’étant pas sa méthode de prise de vue favorite, elle décide de photographier les modèles en train de se regarder dans le miroir, alors placée derrière eux, sans leur faire face. Ce choix photographique « indirect » tient aussi à sa volonté de ne pas s’inscrire dans les codes habituels du portrait, ce qui permet d’apporter à ses clichés une dimension surréaliste. De plus, la gestion de la mise au point dans un miroir brisé constituant un véritable challenge, et l’artiste n’étant pas assurée du résultat final, le hasard est partie intégrante de cette série.






The Wonderful World of Alis Bouyer

Nantaise de 28 ans, Alis Bouyer décide de débuter la photographie courant 2011. Dès l’âge de trois ans, elle vise, déclenche et expérimente avec un appareil argentique « bas de gamme » qui lui a été offert. Sa mère possédait alors une « boîte à trésors » : Une ancienne boîte à chaussures remplie d’images de grands photographes comme Edouard Boubat, René Maltête ou encore l’emblématique Man Ray : C’est alors l’occasion pour la photographe en herbe de faire de magnifiques et inspirantes découvertes.

Aujourd’hui, Alis ressent un besoin constant de créer et de concrétiser les images qui naissent dans son esprit. Malgré l’éternelle insatisfaction qu’elle ressent, la photographe nous livre des clichés percutants et décalés, aux couleurs parfaites, dont les personnages semblent prendre vie. Au beau milieu de paysages sélectionnés de par leur beauté, l’artiste mise sur des clichés pris sur le vif, de l’instantané, et ce pour le plus grand plaisir des yeux.








Giant Hands Bridge in Vietnam

Installé en proximité du résort Bà Nà Hills, près de la ville de Da Nang, au Vietnam, ce pont est soutenu par une gigantesque paire de mains en pierre. La structure, étrange, se font parfaitement dans le paysage local et confère un aspect mystique à la vue. Vieillie artificiellement avec du lichen et un subtil travail sur les rochers, les mains semblent les vestiges d’un temps révolu. L’attraction a déjà séduit un bon nombre de touristes.




Design Job: Create Packaging with High Luxury Aesthetic as a Designer for Estee Lauder 

Designer, Global Package Design, Aramis & Designer Fragrances at the Estee Lauder Companies Principle Objectives: Assist in creating and developing innovative graphic art direction for packaging with high luxury aesthetic, within budgetary and timetable restraints of all programs. Responsible to maintain and uphold all

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Sketch Nerds: Want to Help Kickstart This Designey Felt-Tipped Pen?

There is the “jotting something down” version of sketching, where you grab the nearest mark-making object and scrap of paper to capture an idea; some gewgaw drawn in lipstick on the back of a receipt. Then there is the prepared type of sketching you do in the studio, where many of you probably prefer to have a tightly curated arsenal of pens/pencils/markers at your disposal.

This product is for the latter type of sketching, and it’s pretty niche: When you want more single-pass line weight than a rollerball can produce, but less than what a marker puts out, industrial designers Tony Badu and Coco Lombarte hope that you’ll reach for their unnamed felt-tipped pens in aluminum or titanium.

If you want one, you’d better spread the word, and fast: At press time there were only three days left to pledge, and they’d only garnered $11,245 on a $39,373 goal. If you want to help get it across the finish line, here’s the campaign.

Buy: Trophy Medium Roast Coffee

Trophy Medium Roast Coffee


Drive Coffee’s newest blend, Trophy, is inspired by the rally races in chase of the Camel Trophy. The races tasked drivers with surmounting the terrain of places like the Mongolian Desert, Sumatra, and Sulawesi–the latter two are also where the beans……

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Late Summer Cookout Essentials: How this season's gear can make al fresco events easier

Late Summer Cookout Essentials


At the beach, as the sun sets on the horizon, it can seem that the world goes on quietly forever. Those summer nights—when the sand has cooled down, the coolers are full of beers and cocktail accoutrement, and the grill is a colorful display of seasonal……

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Paulo Mendes da Rocha and David Adjaye on Mies Crown Hall Americas 2018 shortlist

Washington DC’s African American history museum and a leisure centre designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha are among the six finalists for this year’s Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize.

The museum designed for the US capital by a team including British architect David Adjaye, and Mendes da Rocha’s project in São Paulo, Brazil, are in the running to be named best project completed in the Americas between January 2016 and December 2017.

Also on the shortlist, revealed yesterday, is a concrete performing arts venue in Mexico, a “labyrinthine” university building in Peru, a residential cluster in the US and a Brazilian cultural building.

The projects were shortlisted from 175 entries for the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) – a biennial prize established by the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture. It takes its name from the school’s headquarters: modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‘s SR Crown Hall in Chicago.

Entrants were cut down to 31 in May this year, following which jury chair Ricky Burdett and his team – including Jose Castillo, Ron Henderson, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce and Claire Weisz – toured each building and interviewed architects, teams and clients, before coming to the final shortlist.

Comprising a residential scheme, a museum, a school, and cultural and leisure centres, the shortlist offer examples for alternative takes on various typologies, according to Burdett.

“We were looking for projects that – regardless of scale or budget – might set new typologies for universities, museums, public institutions, galleries, and housing as we move forward in the 21st century,” he said in a statement.

The selection process took into consideration a number of factors, including the project’s longevity, sustainability, use of local materials, relationship to surroundings, and community benefits.

“We were interested in buildings that work — for the city, for the institution, for the neighbourhood, community, and the individual occupants,” said Burdett.

“Buildings that have meaning and complexity, and enrich the lives of the people who use and inhabit them,” he continued. “We looked carefully at how projects related to their natural and man-made environments, their social and ecological landscapes.”

MCHAP director Dirk Denison added that many of the designs also showcased references to the modernist style of the 20th century, but with a “maximal impact”.

“We were surprised that the architectural language of some of these very contemporary projects we admired are deeply rooted in the spatial concerns of the mid- or even early 20th century,” he said.

“Natural daylight and natural ventilation were, wherever possible, prioritised over the hermetic box,” Denison added. “The interplay of sun and shadow on internal and external surfaces marked the changing of the seasons and passing of time. Interior complexity, in many of the projects, was prioritised over symbolic facadism.”

The final winner will be revealed at a symposium on 10 October 2018, at the Illinois Institute of Technology College. As well as receiving the prize, the winner will be awarded a position as the MCHAP Chair at the school’s College of Architecture, and $50,000 (£38,000) to fund research and a publication.

Read on for more information on the six finalists:


SESC 24 de Maio by Paulo Mendes da Rocha and MMBB Arquitetos, São Paulo, Brazil

An 11-storey ramp was used to connect a 1940s department store in São Paulo and two neighbouring buildings, creating this leisure and culture centre for the SESC chain.

The adaptive-reuse project was designed by Brazilian architect, and RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner, Paulo Mendes da Rocha with locally based MMBB Arquitetos, and also included the addition of a rooftop pool.


NMAAHC by Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup JJR, Washington, DC, USA

One of the most significant new museums in Washington DC, The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture comprises a stacked structure covered with perforated bronze plates that reference the history of African American craftsmanship. Inside, there is a triple-height gallery and an underground theatre.

Awarded in 2009 to team a including British architect David Adjaye with American firms The Freelon Group and Davis Brody Bond, the project was named Design of the Year 2017 by London’s Design Museum.

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IMS Paulista by Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados, São Paulo, Brazil

IMS Paulista provides a new headquarters for major Brazilian cultural organisation The Instituto Moreira Salles on one of the São Paulo’s most important streets: Paulista Avenue.

The building, which was completed by local firm Andrade Morettin Arquitetos Associados, has two clear sections split by a terrace. An “urban hall” intended to draw visitors in from the street is located on the lower portion, while a museum situated in the upper section features red interiors that are revealed by a glazed exterior.


UDEP by Barclay & Crousse

Edificio E, University of Piura by Barclay & Crousse Architecture, Piura, Peru

Architecture studio Barclay & Crousse completed this wood-textured concrete building for the Universidad de Piura’s campus in Peruvian city Piura.

Its square-shaped plan is fragmented into independent volumes for lecture halls, classrooms, group study rooms, faculty offices, administrative offices and cafeteria and reception hall that are connected by outdoor circulation.

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Teopanzolco Cultural Center by Productora and Isaac Broid

Teopanzolco Cultural Center by Productora and Isaac Broid, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Designed by Mexican architect Isaac Broid and firm Productora, the Teopanzolco Cultural Center performing arts venue is located in central Mexico, on a plot next to an archaeological site with Aztec ruins.

Among its key features are triangular geometries that allude to pyramid-shaped temples built in the 14th and 16th centuries, a pigmented concrete exterior, and a landscaped roof patio.

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True North by EC3

True North by Edwin Chan/EC3, Detroit, USA

True North is a complex of eight steel and polycarbonate affordable residences in Detroit’s Core City neighbourhood.

The curved-roof homes are updated versions of the Quonset hut – an arched, prefabricated, lightweight structure that became popular during the second world war – chosen by US studio EC3 for cost efficiency as well as aesthetic.

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Kanye West albums illustrated as houses by Amaory B Portorreal

Kanye West‘s discography is portrayed as a set of architectural illustrations in this series by designer Amaory B Portorreal.

Portorreal embarked on the project to visualise each of West’s albums as houses after the rapper announced his Yeezy Home venture in May 2018.

The first project from the arm of Yeezy fashion label is expected to be social housing, so Portorreal imagined how the musical and graphic style of the records could be represented as residences.

“Using the musical and aesthetic diversity of Kanye West’s hip-hop albums as his reference and inspiration, each home he has created tells a unique story about the possibility of marrying beauty and low-income housing,” said a statement on behalf of the designer.

“After hearing that the hip-hop artist was venturing into the world of architecture, and focusing on low-income housing, he decided to envision what these homes could look like.”

The result is a series of isometric architectural drawings, set against a single-colour rectangular block and paired with the logo that accompanies the corresponding album.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

Working chronologically, Portorreal started with The College Dropout – the debut solo album that catapulted West to fame in 2004.

The house is based on those found in some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Chicago, the city where the rapper grew up. The single-storey, pitched-roof home is depicted in red to match the bear mascot logo on the album cover.

“Excessive materialism, minimum-wage labor and institutional prejudice are prevalent themes that run through this album, touching on Kanye West’s humble beginnings,” he said.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

Chicago’s architecture also influenced Portorreal’s house for Late Registration (2005), which takes cues from more upscale greystone buildings found in the city.

“The production was much more lush and elaborate, with the use of more sophisticated samples and string orchestration,” Portorreal said. “Here, the themes are consistent with those in The College Dropout, but the production is more mature and refined.”

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

For 2007’s Graduation, the designer adapted the album artwork created by graphic artist Takashi Murakami. The pastel colours from the imagery are translated into splotches across a domed structure, which features an arched doorway and a porthole window.

“The aesthetic created by Murakami on the cover art draws upon circular shapes and patterns that evoke the image of Japanese Bubble homes,” said Portorreal.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

The themes of loss and alienation in 808’s and Heartbreaks (2008), along with its minimalist sound palette, resulted in a pared-back modernist-looking residence. A series of thin windows along one wall match the pale colours found along the CD spine, and the entrance court is textured to mimic the artwork’s heart.

“The cold concrete facade draws on the themes of loss and sadness that run through this album, and the coloured windows draw on each of the complex emotions explored in this album,” the designer said.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

West’s self-exile to Hawaii, to remove himself from the public eye, influenced Portorreal’s building to represent fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – which was written during this time. Based on a gothic style, a small structure is placed atop a cylindrical tower and cut off by a drawbridge as a “castle in the sky”.

“The album boasted an opulent production quality and dealt with themes of excess, consumer culture and the American Dream,” Portorreal said.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

The patterned golden cover for Watch the Throne (2011) – a collaboration with fellow hip-hop star Jay-Z – was created by fashion designer Riccardo Tisci. This artwork features on a tower at the front of Portorreal’s house, set beside a lower, flat black roof.

“The black stone cladded walls of the Watch the Throne house are overshadowed by a large volume wrapped with a golden rain screen perforated by the same geometrical pattern adorned on the album,” said the designer.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

Similarly, the statuesque woman that appears on Virgil Abloh and Joe Perez’s artwork for compilation album Cruel Summer is applied to a wall on Portorreal’s corresponding home. This tiered white building features overhangs and a pergola to shade its outdoor areas.

“The Cruel Summer home is a contemporary summer villa with a large motif of a woman on the exterior,” said Portorreal.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

As the clear Yeezus case was influenced by the simplicity of Braun designer Dieter Rams, so is Portorreal’s transparent box house that represents the 2013 album. The two-storey residence, connected by a spiral staircase, also has a red portico to evoke the label that adorns the case.

“The Yeezus home follows this same minimalist agenda with a glass cube with and an entrance with a pop of red colour,” said the designer.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

Next up is 2017’s The Life of Pablo. “Kanye’s seventh album The Life of Pablo demonstrated one of Kanye’s greatest talents: his ability to take samples and use them as a tool to switch the beat, introduce the chorus or even emphasise a statement,” Portorreal said.

Referencing this idea of repurposing, his house is built from a pair of shipping containers, arranged perpendicularly and stacked one atop the other.

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

West rewrote his 2018 record Ye in just two weeks at his ranch in Wyoming, after coming under fire for airing his controversial socio-political views. Portorreal therefore set a modest cabin into rocks, like those of the state’s Teton Mountains.

“Albeit his shortest album, it is one of his most self-analysing,” said Portorreal. “Speaking about his state of mind, his family and how tumultuous his life has been.”

Kanye West-inspired homes by Amaory B Portorreal

Finally, the psychedelic artwork created again by Muragami for West’s collaboration with Kid Cudi – Kids See Ghosts – formed the inspiration for a Japanese style residence.

“Portorreal used those bended trees, and displayed them as the centrepiece for his Japanese courtyard home,” said the designer’s statement.

Others that have reinterpreted themes or sets as architectural illustrations include artist Federico Babina, who has created several series of fictional buildings based on sources like architects’ faces, famous artworks, classic songs and even the Karma Sutra.

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