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Case study September 2025

Education, Institution and Public Interest
Music and Performing Arts

L’Aéronef

Sustain — Concerts, talks and panel discussions to make change resonate in the sharing of live music

Stomp your feet on the dance floor and bang your fist on the table. That’s the premise of the Sustain festival, a testing ground for contemporary music and new ideas conceived by L’Aéronef, the legendary concert venue in the Lille region. Concerts and panel discussions punctuate a weekend across the city, in collaboration with a host of partners, exploring the future of live music from an ecological perspective.

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Case study January 2025

Music and Performing Arts

La Cave aux Poètes

We Loft Music No. 5 — The fifth edition of Roubaix’s music festival

For its return in 2025 after a year off, we approached the identity of this fifth edition with significant budget constraints.

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Case study September 2022

Art and Design
Photography and Video

Institute for photography

Photosensibles — A report on the workshops held by 5 photographers in the Pas-de-Calais department

The 2021-2022 cultural season marked the first collaboration between the Pas-de-Calais department and the Institute for Photography. Between past, present and future, this collaboration focused on questions about our archive images, both individual and collective, and the human and environmental realities of this territory.

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Case study October 2020

Architecture and Urban planning

SPL Euralille

Welcome to “Porte de Valenciennes” — A welcome kit for the new inhabitants

In 2020, as part of the urban renewal of the Porte de Valenciennes district in Lille, SPL Euralille invited us to create a unique graphic object to present the district to new residents.

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Case study July 2020

Architecture and Urban planning
Intervention and artistic residency, Workshop

SEM Ville Renouvelée
lille—design

Bon Voyage to Roubaix — An invitation to discover the city’s emblematic places through the sensitive prism of the inhabitants’ experience

The Lille World Design Capital 2020 event was an opportunity to collaborate with Ville Renouvelée and lille—design to rethink the transitional space that is the car park at Roubaix train station.

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Case study January 2020

Intervention and artistic residency, Workshop

espace 36

Aperçu avant impression (Print preview) — A residency focused on an art centre’s archives

In 2019, espace 36 began a new cycle of annual creative residencies dedicated to supporting graphic design. As part of this initiative, we were invited by the espace 36 team (Benoît Warzée, Ségolène Gabriel and Marina Grebert) to produce a work of art, which we presented in January 2020 as part of a final exhibition.

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Case study July 2017

Art and Design
Collaboration with artists

Julien Levesque

Confidence — An edition halfway between a restitution and a piece of art

During his residency at the Ferme du Bois Briard in Courcouronnes, Julien Levesque intervened, following our suggestion and with our complicity, on the running offset presses at the Havet printing factory in Sailly-sur-la-Lys, by adding different inks directly to a group of colours to produce an edition that we had designed specifically for this experiment.

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Case study April 2016

Architecture and Urban planning

IREV

Notebook: The Urban Project — An exercise book on urban renewal

With this notebook, IREV, the Hauts-de-France urban planning resource centre, aims to compile the methodological lessons learned from conducting urban projects and encourage their application through exercises specifically designed for this edition.

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About

Surfaces is a graphic design studio that creates unique, multi‑faceted and long‑lasting graphic objects from commissioned work, with a research approach and radical sensibility.

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