PASCAL BéJEAN, OLIVIER KöRNER, NICOLAS LEDOUX.

“The college of song is located on the heights of Ménilmontant, in a second behind back yard of a open housing complex. Menilmontant is north-est of Paris, very tighten from Le Père Lachaise, the last home of Oscar Wilde who said, “I have the simplest tastes. we am regularly confident with the best.” That’s because I’m never confident of ourselves.

The place is half buried, no windows on the back, only on the front. No view, only the structure conflicting the yard. Birds and kids in the balmy days… The college of song is quite large, but filled with junk (boxes of books we published, stays of Ultralab‘s
exhibitions, archives, seat that doesn’t fit in our apartments). Not too shabby…We are 3 guys + an occasional intern. We rent a dilemma to 2 other striking designers, the only sufferable company.”

“Style is a elementary way of observant difficult things,” pronounced Jean Cocteau. This allude to comes to my thoughts to report the work of Pascal Béjean – Olivier Körner – Nicolas Ledoux. Style is a singular peculiarity today, one not customarily compared with striking communication. But the 3 principals are desirous practitioners whose special talent, it seems to me, is to insist and inform, more than insist or demonstrate. The wish one practice in front of their posters, brochures, wrapping or identities is due to the actuality that the intent itself and the striking calm appear inextricably bound. You interpret the summary with your fingers as much as with your eyes. Their studio, specializes in pattern projects that foster ? la mode art and behaving humanities events. The partners put a reward on typographical excellence, but the manifest codes of photography, fashion, and song mostly find their way into their striking vocabulary. They are lerned in a number of different disciplines: Pascal is a photographer, Olivier’s background is in telecommunication, while Nicolas is an architect.

-Veronique Vienne

How long have you been in the space?  Five years now. We arrived in an nauseous space, spotless everything, reorganized the lavatories in a kitchen, repainted all from building to ceiling with white, grey, light blue and mastic.
How do you, Olivier and Nicolas work together and collaborate?  Olivier takes part to our multimedia projects, since he’s a programmer. He also functions for other designers. Nicolas and we work together on imitation projects.We work the judgment together, formed on the submit of the most desirous one.Through pattern ideas, one starts to work on the layout, we sometimes ping-pong with the files. Either one of us coordinates with the clients.

 The camera pennyless down right prior to my assembly with Milton Glaser.

Americans are very efficient, they need a reason to take an hour of their time. 
Where did you find the bureau mascot of Super Mario? Online, Nicolas can’t be more specific about that. Sorry…
When did you begin receiving cinema and turn meddlesome in photography?As a teenager, with conform magazines. we was then a conform wannabe.At the art school, there was a print studio. we written and made clothes, then, we would fire them and pattern catalogues. My models were Gianni Versace catalogues, with Bruce Weber, Claus Witcrath and Richard Avedon’s photographs.It was the pre-Miami period, obviously. And we made a few unison photographs, which we still do.

I don’t outlay more time out there that the subsequent Parisian. Too much work!

You set out to assorted studios in New York, photographing the likes of Matias Corea, Milton Glaser, and  Paul Sahre. What stirred this adventure? we longed for to do more photographs, and indispensable a subject. Following the thought of Bulldozer, our early repository about striking pattern – founded by Frédéric Bortolotti, of creation striking pattern more visible,I started studio visits in 2008, asking designers we appreciate. When Elephant asked us to underline in the Paris issue, Logorama’s H5 asked me to use for their own section the sharpened we made. I accepted the repository did not elect a photograph, so we due myself and shot 10 artists and designers in one month. The toughest college of song was ours: Olivier and Nicolas (mostly him) giggled all event long, out of highlight we suppose…

When we took a few days of eighth month in NY, we decided to do the same. It is a good way to encounter people you couldn’t otherwise. Not as easily, anyway. Americans are very efficient, they need a reason to take an hour of their time. A photoshoot is a good one. Well, not for everyone. I’ve been kicked out of (…) when they accepted it was not for a magazine.On the opposite, the camera pennyless down right prior to my assembly with Milton Glaser. we shamelessly used the iPhone. He was very cold about that.

You mostly fire in black and white. What draws you to this medium? Before we fire objects, we fire lines and light. BW is more true brazen for that. we am not the photographer who will outlay an afternoon sharpened incidentally wherever his stairs lead him. we need a purpose. But if we see something fun in the street, we use my iPhone 4 with Hipstamatic. It’s lighter than the Blad! And cheaper, which was very accessible in NY, where we made 100 rolls of twelve with the Blad, and 2000 images with my phone. we take it as it was a Polaroid. Limited, though extemporaneous images.

You used your father’s old Yashica for years. Is this still your camera of choice?  The Yashica is mislaid somewhere with my Polaroid Propack, in boxes. we desired this Propack, we used BW drive-in theatre then. Even becloud images were beautiful. Sometimes, the apparatus creates the man! My 2 Blads were stolen 3 years ago. we found a poor one after that and we still use it. I just can’t work digital cameras. Too many buttons. We have a Sony hybrid at the studio, but we never shift the settings.
Oh, we contingency ask your thoughts on Godard? I’d rsther than speak to you about Boris Vian. If you don’t know him, please review “L’écume des jours” (Froth on the Daydream).
Enter the universe of Pascal Béjean, Olivier Körner, Nicolas Ledoux here.

Pascal’s Studio Shoots “Graphic Designers at Work” are noticed here.