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An open book shows three green-tinted photographs. On the left, a person wears a white mask over their face, and below, two people lean in to kiss while wearing similar masks. On the right, a person sits on a chair, bent forward with their head tucked down.

Clément Le Tulle-Neyret's considered approach to Strange Designs

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Date
30 November 2015

Some slick book design here from Lyon-based art director and graphic designer Clément Le Tulle-Neyret. As well as boasting possibly one of the Frenchest names we’ve ever had the pleasure of reading, his work is also very true to his home nation. His catalogue for Grenoble’s Avatars de Rousseau exhibition takes a simple red and white colour palette to draw together imagery and essays. The neat layout recalls 19th Century pamphlet design, which seems fitting with Rousseau’s politics. A rather different project is his Strange Designs book of essays by designers including Elio Caccavale, Didier Faustino and Pieke Bergmans. Again, a minimal colour palette is used, but here green is the star of the show. Clément’s choice is based on the fact that green is “the colour of Satan…strange beings, sorcerers…genies in bottles,” among other odd entities. Both books are published by it: éditions.

A dark green book cover featuring a large, stylised white “SD” monogram. The title “Strange Design” is printed to the right, with a French subtitle above that reads “Du design des objets au design des comportements”.
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Clément Le Tulle-Neyret: Strange Design

A stack of books with red stippled imagery of a face on the covers. The spine of each book reads “Avatars de Rousseau”.
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Clément Le Tulle-Neyret: Avatars de Rousseau

A book cover with red text that reads “Avatars de Rousseau”. Below the title is a red, textured abstract shape resembling a curved, organic form against a white, grainy background.
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Clément Le Tulle-Neyret: Avatars de Rousseau

An open book shows a red marbled endpaper on the left and a title page on the right. The page reads “DICTIONNAIRE DE MUSIQUE.” and “PAR J. J. ROUSSEAU.” below a small illustration of floral motifs.
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Clément Le Tulle-Neyret: Avatars de Rousseau

A red monochrome print across two pages shows a chaotic street battle between crowds of people. They fight with swords and muskets between tall city buildings.
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Clément Le Tulle-Neyret: Avatars de Rousseau

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Emily Gosling

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Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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