Author Archives: François Soulignac
Digital illustration : Bestiaire (2012)
Virtual Tourism in Sao Paulo
Virtual Tourism in Hong Kong
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936 with a mission to exhibit contemporary Continue reading
Graphic Design from Boston
School of the MFA (Boston, MA)
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (also known as the Museum School or SMFA) is an undergraduate and graduate college located in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the visual arts. It is affiliated with the Museum of Fine Continue reading
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (MFA), Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive Continue reading
Boston Police
The Boston Police Department (BPD), established in 1838, holds the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 2nd oldest municipal police department in the United States, after the Philadelphia Police Department. Continue reading
Boston Shop Sign
Boston | Food and Packaging
Cuisine in Boston is similar to the rest of New England cuisine, in that it has a large emphasis on seafood and dairy products. Its best-known dishes are New England clam chowder, fish and chips (usually with cod or scrod), Continue reading
Streets of Boston
Boston By Night
Boston Subway & Commuter Rail
Subway Network Boston has the oldest subway system in North America, with the first underground streetcar traffic dating back to 1897. Today the whole subway network is owned and operated by the MBTA. The basic one-way fare is $1.70 (or Continue reading
Cambridge | MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Campus
Anish Kapoor Sculpture More information: www.mit.edu/anish-kapoor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also known as MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with Continue reading
Street elements & details
Boston Street Art
Boston Harbor | Lovells Island
Lovells Island, or Lovell’s Island, is a 62-acre (250,000 m2) island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, in Massachusetts. The island is across The Narrows from Georges Island and some 7 miles (11 km) offshore of downtown Boston. Continue reading
Boston View | Spectacle Island
Spectacle Island is an island in Boston Harbor, situated some 4 miles (6.4 km) offshore of downtown Boston, Massachusetts. The island has a varied history, and today is a public park, forming part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Continue reading
Charles River Basin by Kayak
The Charles River is an 80 mi (129 km) long river that flows in an overall northeasterly direction in eastern Massachusetts. From its source in Hopkinton, the river travels through 22 cities and towns until reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Continue reading
Somerville | Massachusetts
Somerville is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located just north of Boston. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 75,754 and was the most densely populated municipality in New England. It is Continue reading
Salem | Massachusetts
Salem is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. The population was 41,340 at the 2010 census. Salem and Lawrence are the county seats of Essex County. Home to Salem State University, the Salem Willows Park and Continue reading
Boston | Wide Angle Lens
Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the largest city in New England, is home to 248 completed high-rises, 27 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The majority of the city’s skyscrapers and high-rises Continue reading
Boston Architecture | Storefront
Boston Fenway Park | Outside
Fenway Park is a baseball park near Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Continue reading
Boston Urban furniture
Boston’s Chinatown
Chinatown, Boston is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Centered on Beach Street, Chinatown borders Boston Common, Downtown Crossing, the South End, and the Southeast Expressway/Massachusetts Turnpike. It is the only historically Chinese area in New England. Part of Continue reading
Boston Architecture | Vintage
By the early and mid-20th century, the city was in decline as factories became old and obsolete, and businesses moved out of the region for cheaper labor elsewhere. Boston responded by initiating various urban renewal projects under the direction of Continue reading
Boston | Ivy on the Wall
Ivy, plural ivies (Hedera), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan. Continue reading
Cambridge | Harvard University
Harvard’s 210-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) northwest of downtown Boston and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. Harvard Yard itself contains the central administrative offices and main Continue reading
Boston Architecture | Classics
Downtown Boston’s streets were not organized on a grid, but grew in a meandering organic pattern from early in the 17th century. They were created as needed, and as wharves and landfill expanded the area of the small Boston peninsula. Continue reading
Maybelline New York | Newsletter Standards
Gemey-Maybelline French Newsletters are weekly emails sent to all french subscribers (up to 2 millions). Sharing news products and events around the Gemey-Maybelline brand. It’s the most important part of brand budget for digital communication (around 2.5%). Context | Facts Continue reading
Clouds, Tribute to Gerhard Richter (2012)
Maybelline New York | Graphic Guidelines
Maybelline New York, Digital graphic guidelines. Pattern document all the graphic rules and best practices in terme of design: logotype, typography, colors, graphic shapes and uses of photography. The full document contains 48 pages, result of 2 years work. Document designed ans Continue reading
ESSEC Business School | Apprenticeship Website
“ESSEC Business School Apprentissage” is a website introducing all classes and trainings supported by the Apprenticeship department of ESSEC Business School. In addition, users can watch interviews of former students and consult all documents related to the apprenticeship. Context | Continue reading
Sad Things on the Streets of Paris
Pernod Ricard | Facebook Page
Pernod Ricard is a french company that produces distilled beverages. The company’s eponymous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both anise-flavoured liqueurs and are often referred to simply as Pernod or Ricard. The company also produces several other types Continue reading
Design from Paris
Bel | Website Kiri Magnets
Kiri Magnets Website is the digital support for “Kiri Magnets” operation in supermarket shelves, launching by the cheese brand named Kiri. Every box of Kiri contains collector magnets for refrigerator, with a code behind. Children and parents fill out this code on the dedicated Instant Win Continue reading
Virtual Tourism in Mountains & Desert unknown
Cdiscount | Facebook Game Free-to-play
Bouchété is a meat-slicing game (Fruit Ninja-like) created to communicate the big sales operation named ”La grande Boucherie” (“The big Butchery”). It’s a trash-game, inspired by the Grindhouse movie ”Machete”, from Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. Context | Facts and Continue reading
Virtual Tourism in the City of Haventon
Image bank FAIL
© Time & Life Picture/Getty Image Naked man wearing only an apron in the kitchen Getty Images/Altrendo. (Found by Alexandre M.) Woman, accident under garage door. ©Daniel Arsenault Young man holding dog against blue background, close-up, portrait (c) Tom Kelley Continue reading
Apéricube | Facebook Application Apéripotes
Apéripotes is a sustainable Facebook Application who capitalise on the Facebook tag trends. The tone is ironic with plently humor on graphics and writing. When your friend is tagged, he’s introduced like a funny-freaks avatar. The result is updated on Facebook Timeline. Context | Facts Continue reading
BEL | Game free-to-play La vache qui rit
“La Quête des Bougies” is a point and click game. Users have to find lost candles on the map to finalize the LVQR anniversary cake. User could search everywhere on the platform : into the game and products pages. During Continue reading
Virtual Tourism in Province of Skyrim
2011 : The power of art critic In September 2011, I discovered a press article from the French journalist Erwan Cario, about Iain Andrews‘s work. Before that, the concept of videogame photography was not clear in my mind, and publishing Continue reading
Design from New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is bordered by Continue reading
Virtual Tourism in Arkham City
Festival de Gordes | Website
The big picture This website is a graphic and ergonomic proposition for an imaginary art festival (“Gordes Festival – Contemplative arts”) introducing two levels of information : for competitors (“On & “Off” festival) and visitors. The graphic universe is inspired Continue reading