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Greeting cards 2026 

art direction, illustration · 112 × 74 mm · gold foil
mini studio

This greeting card is full of stories and symbols of the studio bi-cultural identity: the mini studio horse gallops lightly from Mont Blanc to Mount Fuji, moving through places and time as the sky turns from daylight to Japanese-style clouds and stars.
In its mouth are rice sprouts, symbol of prosperity, and all around it runs the shimenawa rope, a sacred hemp rope commonly found at the entrance of shrines or on New Year decorations hung in front of doors to welcome the new year deity.

Épidémies, prendre soin du vivant

art direction, book design · 165 × 240 mm · 112 pages
Musée des Confluences and Éditions courtes et longues

For the Épidémies exhibition catalog at the Musée des Confluences (April 12, 2024–February 16, 2025), Mini Studio designed a layout inspired by two contrasting sources: 20th-century scientific documents (reports, forms, etc.) and the concept of a cabinet of curiosities.
Throughout most of the catalog, text is confined to the lower third of each page, while images dominate the upper section—like objects displayed on the shelves of a curiosity cabinet.
Five spreads focus on a specific mega-disease such as plague with various insightful data. The base materials being very scientific and difficult to grasp for a novice, we offered to make it playful and on-theme by splitting information in smaller sections and adding engraving illustrations.

Paris Rêvé

graphic design, editorial management · 210 × 292 mm · 392 pages · with Twice studio
Chêne éditions

A love letter to the City of Lights, written by illustrator Clara Panetier through more than 300 drawings of her favorite spots in Paris. From high-fashion boutiques to small breweries, she paints a dreamy portrait of the capital in vivid colors and striking compositions.

Amélie Chiba

logo design · logo and hallmark · with Timothée Goguely
Amélie Chiba

Amélie Chiba is a jewelry brand led by designer Amélie Chiba, based in Tokyo. Her process of creation is deeply respectful the intricate relationship between the object itself, the artisan’s crafts, and history of jewelry.
The hallmark design, three overlaping leaves, is based on the meaning of the name Chiba in Japanese, “a thousand leaves”. The leaves’ curve then served as base for the C in “Chiba”, turning into a chiseled logo, mixing both geometry and organic.
Jewelry photos ©MasanoriAkaishi and ©AmelieChiba. Card printed by Bird Design Letterpress.

In yonder garden wedding invitations

art direction, illustration, lettering · 112 × 160 mm · gold foil stamping, offset & digital printing
individual client

This couple having ties in France and Japan, inspirations were drawn from both European and Japanese visual traditions; a custom lettering, loosely inspired by Parisian letterpaint and style echoing both medieval ornaments and Japanese woodblock prints. Flowers found in both families’ gardens are arranged in a season-based composition, creating an imaginary ever-changing garden. This transformation theme is then carried through the printing process itself: three techniques combine distinct textures and subtle color variations that shift with the light.
On the back a modular sticker system allowed different informationto be added to each card. This playful device was then extended to the envelopes, creating a cohesive ensemble throughout.

Man Ray, le beau temps

art direction, book design · 245 × 280 mm · 176 pages
La Banque, musée d’Hyères and Éditions courtes et longues

For the Man Ray, Le Beau Temps exhibition catalog (July 8–November 19, 2023), Mini Studio chose to work with Federico Parra Barrios’ Exposure (205TF) typeface. Its principle—where text fades or enlarges depending on light exposure—resonating with the artist’s own work.
The overexposed version of Exposure nods to the very practice of photography, to Man Ray’s rayographs—one of which was selected for the catalog’s cover—while evoking the harsh Mediterranean sunlight that bathed his summers with Ady, Picasso and others.  

mini studio logo

art direction, logo design · 55 × 85 mm · letterpress printing
mini studio

Print lies at the heart of mini studio’s work. It is what we do and what we love—not exclusively, but definitely partial to printed matters and typography.
We’ve also always been drawn to small, precious things (hence the name), to ornament, to history, and to nature. From this blend emerged the idea of a logo with a strong reference to medieval illumination.
Like those meticulous works of gold and color, we believe in the power of details—whether in the beautiful imperfections of letterpress print, a carefully chosen typeface, or the quiet beauty of a well-crafted object.

Je veux être riche et célèbre, je serai artiste

art direction, book design · 170 × 240 mm · 112 pages
Éditions courtes et longues

From word-famous paintings to contemporary pieces, Je veux être riche et célèbre, je serai artiste aims at showing children and teenagers the various aspects of what it is to “be an artist”.
Tired of the overtold story of the pennyless genius, Dominique de Font-Réaulx (mediation director at the Louvre) tries to paint a different picture with detailed explanations about artist’s works, historical context, and vision.
A presentation label accompanies each artwork, giving useful details such as artists’ names, title and techniques but also unexpected ones like the moment the work was created in the artist’s life, or the artwork size compared to an average human being.

Le Cahier de vacances des Rencontres de Lure

art direction, editorial design, writing · 160 × 240 cm · 68 pages · with Anton Moglia
Rencontres internationales de Lure

The Rencontres de Lure is a week-long meetup dedicated to typography and letter, held every summer in the south of France. Being both a place to rest and a place to learn, it gave us the idea of a holiday workbook—as a tool to learn and have fun at the same time. This workbook is aimed at all designers and typographers—beginners and experts alike.
Through 33 activities, it offers a playful and educational approach to typography, lettering, calligraphy, and composition—guided by Titivillus, the mischievous little demon known for scattering errors throughout the work of copyist monks.
The workbook can be purchased from the Rencontres de Lure.

Réderie Amiens

art direction, branding, visual identity · mixed media

The Réderie is a vast flea market held twice a year, in spring and autumn, in the city of Amiens. First held in 1909, it has become one of the city’s highlights and plays a key role in its cultural identity. This eclectic spirit is captured in colorful kaleidoscopes, created from the shapes of objects and adapted into spring and autumn variations. Like the Réderie itself, the visual identity can reinvent itself endlessly while preserving strong, recognizable codes.

Ceci n’est pas une nature morte

art direction, editorial management · 220 × 280 mm · 80 pages
Louvre éditions and Éditions courtes et longues

This children’s book was designed to accompany the Louvre exhibition Les Choses. Une histoire de la nature morte (“Things. A History of Still Life”) in 2022.
Each spread puts in perspective one of the artwork shown in the exhibition, with a recap of its historical context and particularities, as well as a contemporary artwork that resonates with it.
Similar to how our thoughts go from one thing to another, various anecdotes, quotes or concepts dance around the artworks, throwing some light on various related point of interests. Some pages even feature activities, playfully inviting readers to look more closely.

Loading, l’art urbain à l’ère numérique au Grand palais immersif

art direction, magazine design · 215 × 285 mm · 48 pages
Connaissance des arts

A free-rein project created to accompany the Loading exhibition at the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris (December 6, 2023 – July 21, 2024). While retracing the beginnings of street art, the exhibition explored how new tools and technologies influence creative production today.
In this perspective, the magazine was designed as a fanzine—vivid and seemingly chaotic, yet still legible. The variety of layouts and fonts serves as a series of homages to different eras and styles of street art.

The Unesco collection

art direction, magazine design · 215 × 285 mm · 64 pages
Connaissance des arts

This special issue explores the rich collection of UNESCO’s Artothèque — nearly 1,800 works from 150 countries — housed in UNESCO’s Paris headquarters, a modernist landmark inaugurated in 1958, whose monumental geometry strongly inspired the layout design.

Rencontres de Lure 2023

art direction, editorial management · 125 × 176 mm · 36 pages
Rencontres internationales de Lure

The 71st Rencontres de Lure, titled “Lure et compagnie” (Lure and co.) was a tribute to the richness of the individual characters that make up an ensemble.
The programme was created fanzine-style: copy machine look, rough hand-drawn letters, very simple hierarchy, a single font family and minimum size variation. However, since diversity and inclusivity were also a strong subject, several inclusive glyphs from various fonts can be found everywhere as little stickers stuck where needed in the text. The goal was to make them voluntarily visible and disruptive, as a mockery of criticism about their legibility or discretion in texts.
On the cover, ribbons allowed people to draw their own glyph, sign or letter, acting as a metaphor of the bonds that binds us all together.

J’écris en hiérolyphes

art direction, copywriting, book design · 140 × 190 mm · 56 pages
Louvre éditions and Éditions courtes et longues

This book is a joyful and colorful invitation to discover hieroglyphs. Blending glimpses of ancient Egypt with grammar essentials, each spread draws young readers in through clear, engaging design. Activities throughout the book encourage closer observation, while a final section offers more in-depth exercises to put their learning into practice.

Collection collective

art direction, editorial management, web design

Projects, documentation, and designers exploring feminist questions in graphic design are often difficult to find and remain isolated from one another.
Collection Collective is a collaborative platform conceived to address this gap. It highlights and archives resources related to feminist and alternative graphic design, creating a shared space of knowledge. By showcasing the diversity of existing references, it gives visibility to projects and facilitates access to resources, whether available online or in physical form.

Voir manger, regards sur la nourriture au Japon

art direction, editorial management, copywriting, research work · 176 × 250 mm · 75 pages

  Is there a specifically Japanese connection between pleasure and oral consumption? This is the question at the heart of the research from which this book is drawn. Through striking visual associations and dialogues with various texts on food in Japan, it touches on the many facets of Japanese food culture—from refined aesthetics to instinctive, almost voracious desire—where gaze and mouth are always intertwined.

Kit Konbini, le cahier

art direction, editorial management, copywriting · 176 × 250 mm · 64 pages

Japanese learning materials, whether printed or digital, suffer from a deeply unbalanced relationship between content and form. Printed materials are mainly available in English and often visually dry. Digital materials, although shinier, are more often than not offering superficial and over-gamified content.
Kit Konbini aims to make Japanese learning easier, coming from French, by offering a system where content and visuals would be conceived in coherence, addressing grammatical, linguistic, and cultural aspects alike.
It relies for this on a physical cultural entrypoint: the konbini (Japanese convenience store), a place where you can find everything which represents Japanese daily life.

Serge Huguenin

art direction, editorial management, web design

The work of illustrator Serge Huguenin sits at the crossroads of colorful daydreams, object collecting, and strangeness. Poetry plays a major role, and his website is heavily influenced by editorial visual codes, which have been adapted into this digital form.
Unfortunately, due to some technicalities, the website is not up at the moment.

Roaring Twenties party invitation

art direction, illustration, lettering · 148 × 210 mm · gold finish

This custom illustration for a Roaring 20’s theme party was directly inspired by the facade of the famous Madison Belmont building in New York. It features an opulent Art Deco fountain which served as a base for our composition. A simple lettering based on the Bifur (a font designed by french designer A. M. Cassandre for Deberny and Peignot foundry in 1929) continues to echoe the very geometric linebased style of the Art Deco, as flowers scattered on top of the drawing add some levity to it all.