Oripeau Project

Guidelines

- Black and white

- If there's bleed, include crop marks

- Will be printed on white bond paper

- max 175cm x 91cm but does not need to be filled

What do Oripeau want?

- Imaginative concept and original interpretation

- Strong use of design principles

- Contemporary Design 

- Distinctive and visual impact

- 3 posters that visually communicate ideas through research, each including an icon, index, and symbol

What is Oripeau? 

"Oripeau is a collaborative project: a free surface measuring 16200 cm² installed in the public space. The idea is to have a new person contribute with a new visual every week. Oripeau isn’t an art gallery, but like a window into our studios and practices, into our ideas and experiments, it is an invitation to put graphic diversity back on the street"

Ficciones Typografika

Oripeau is a project of L’atelier la Casse and is a side project of Ficciones Typografika, a project dedicated to typographic exploration in a public space and curated by Erik Brandt. 

Brandt on what made him want to start the project: 

"This may sound funny, but I really believe in the intelligence and imagination of people. The poster was made for people, to be viewed at a human scale, intimately and also from a distance. It's a medium entirely devoted to life as a human, however distant that concept has become in our world."

Looking at the work from both Oripeau and Ficciones Typografika, I am definitely inspired by the mixed media of many of the posters. There seems to be an eclectic mix of digital, collage, paint, illustration, etc. Personally, for my project I am already thinking of looking at collage and the previous Oripeau posters have given me idea on how to encoprate texture into my work. I also think that I want to utilise the scanner to enhance this, as well as possibly printing onto different materials.