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About me¶
Drawing: Annabel Fournier
Hello! I’m Annabel from Brussels. I’m 53 years old and I’m reinventing myself. After 30 years of graphic design, art direction and branding strategy, I’m feeding my creativity and technical skills by studying Fabricademy. I’ve constantly been multitasking and eclectic but I’ve always been focused on sens, pedagogy, and esthetism.
My background¶
During a long time, I worked for big companies in Paris: Publicis, TBWA… I liked to focus on the meaning and strategy. Last 15 years I worked on several kind of art direction and gradually I moved forward to space design for museums for the general public with educational content.
Let’s focus on 3 projects I’ve done reccently.
Non reader exhibit¶
Graphic design is not only about layout with texts and data. Sometimes icons can make the job better than words. Here is a 700 square meters parcours for small kids. There are three themes: nature, lights, the town, and all connections between those spaces. My solution was to design characters who express feelings or instructions.
Images: Annabel Fournier
Chocolat museum¶
Here is a new exhibit next to a chocolate factory. Clients would have an immersive journey, sitting above trees, surrounded by the spirit of Ghana and poppy flowers from the center of France.
Images: Annabel Fournier
Art cinetic project¶
I like to bring students to knowledge through experience—no more master lessons for kids. I created a wooden box to experience Cinetic art in autonomy for primary schools. The wooden box contains: 4 flashcards (ideas/mains cinetic master pieces / mathematics symbols / concepts), construction items, kinetic objects, a tablet with many videos, frames, and mirrors, a spinning top, a spirograph with a "How to use" booklet for the teacher.
Images: Annabel Fournier
I created the project on Scketup first, but I wasn’t able to transform it into ready ty cut files directly. I drew it after all on Illustrator, but it was very time-consuming, and I made a lot of errors. I faced the challenge of not being able to control the implementation, so I decided to train at the Fablab in Brussels to understand the manufacturing steps better and produce the prototypes myself. That was my first experience in a Fablab. It gave me the idea to go further into DIY.
And in week 13 I proposed my final project.