Born in Nancy, 1956, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (art school), CharlElie has long been a noted figure of the "multist"movement of multidisciplinary artists.  (... read the bio) 

Born in Nancy, 1956, graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (art school), CharlElie has long been a noted figure of the "multist"movement of multidisciplinary artists.
As a matter of fact, for over twenty-five years, CharlElie has been pursuing a creative process towards defined as "Total Art", a general attitude consisting in finding interconnections between the various forms of human expression - written word, graphic art and music.
Significantly, in 1978, the topic of his end-of-studies thesis was "the polymorphism of spirit", something he has kept investigating to this day. On that occasion, he presented photographs, texts and paintings, and also self-produced a debut album, "12 Chansons dans la sciure" ("12 Songs In Sawdust"), which attracted interest from music professionals. Only three years later, in 1981, he was the first French artist signed to Chris Blackwell's legendary Anglo-American label Island Records; that same year he founded, in Nancy, the "Local à louer" ("For Lease") collective which brought together photographers, painters and poets - to celebrate this, he published his famous "Art-Rock manifesto".
The growing success of his albums didn't detract from his continuing work on paintings, sculptures and photographs, which have all been exhibited on numerous occasions (themes of said exhibitions have included : the memory of hotel rooms, images from travels, urban impressionism, and inner landscapes). CharlElie has also designed posters for various events, most notably tennis events (CharlElie is a great lover of sports, and was a member of the supporting committee for the 2008 Paris Olympics), logos (e.g. that of the French region of Lorraine), watches and, more recently shoes (under the "ChElie" brand). In parallel he has published books and composed over fifteen movie soundtracks, including the acclaimed "Tchao Pantin".
CharlElie is a reference, an uncompromising talent concerned solely with the long term. With 23 albums of songs, several published essays, numerous exhibitions of his paintings, photographs and drawings (in France, Belgium, Switzerland), and countless concert tours both in France and abroad (Asia, Australia, Canada, Germany, Africa and Eastern Europe) under his belt, CharlElie has over the years patiently built, brick by brick, with modesty and dignity, a giant edifice devoted to creation. Each new journey is an incentive for new questionings, new images, and hearing new sounds provides stimuli for new literary creations. CharlElie Couture sees no boundaries between people or genres - anything can be a source of inspiration, and stimulate creativity within any art form.
From the very early days of the Internet, CharlElie saw the potential for expression and communication contained in that media, and was among the first thousand acknowledged "Web pioneers", having launched his groundbreaking website, "Les Champs Paraboliques", as early as 1996. The site keeps evolving, drawing from the ever-expanding possibilities of digital creation.
Working on the neo-constructivist project called "The big RE-Construction", CharlElie settled in New York City with his family, saying that this environment is more conducive to the full blossoming of his Art search.
As with the careers of many great artists, full of light and shade and mysteries, CharlElie's quest is in many ways the counterpart to the "inner landscapes" he pictures in the quest of the absolute he has described thus : "Painting is an open window on the invisible".
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Graduated from the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in 1991 in Paris. Genevieve Gauckler is a French artist, illustrator and art director who is best known for her ever-evolving procession  (... read the bio) 

Graduated from the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in 1991 in Paris. Genevieve Gauckler is a French artist, illustrator and art director who is best known for her ever-evolving procession of lovable characters and technicolour digital mashes. Her works are bright, fun and hectic – often combining symmetrical designs with soft-edged computer generated images laid against photographed backgrounds. She’s into everything and constantly amazed, handling and creating images and shapes with dexterity and innocence.
When asked about her formative influences, she sites an early childhood fascination with the colourful packaging on her favourite breakfast cereals and the title sequence of her favorite TV series, “Flipper”. She spends any she time has available traveling around the world, giving lectures, exhibiting work and obsessively taking photos for her ever expanding collages. Her favorite places are Japan and India but she also loves spending time in the French countryside accompanied by her faithful dog, Kawa, and of course her laptop.
Geneviève Gauckler can look back on broad experience in the field of graphic design, illustration and art direction. Starting with french record label F Communications (Laurent Garnier, St Germain) she later worked with directors Kuntzel & Deygas on promos for Dimitri from Paris, Pierre Henry and Sparks, as well as commercials (e.g. Yves Saint Laurent’s Live Jazz), tittles for French/German cultural TV-channel Arte and some short movies. She has also art-directed the franco-nippon fanzine « Minimix ». In 1999, she was hired by the Internet company boo.com to create their online fashion magazine. While in London, she worked for the design agency Me Company, developing a number of projects for the web.
Since 2001, Geneviève has been focusing on videos (Brigitte Fontaine, some experimental videos with the collective Pleix), art (Mandala Project), illustrations for various magazines (Flaunt, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Le Figaro Japan, IDN, Form, Vogue UK), advertising (Renault, Bourjois, Coca-Cola, Skype, PlayStation, Lane Crawford, Orange, o2 Germany, Adobe) and books, objects, toys & Tshirts (Domestic, Medicom Toys, 2K, BeamsT, Publik) corporate identity (Hip), character design, exhibitions, comic book (L’Arbre Génialogique), animated tittle sequences (German-French Arte Channel). Three books have been published about her work, in Japan by Gas Book and in France by Pyramyd.
Apart from working on a regular basis on some advertising jobs (Adobe, Orange, o2 Germany), her next projects is to create a experimental video with Pleix and starting working on her next comic book.
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Technology, Culture, and Communication have always been my passions. Over years, my professional and personal experience turned out to be an exploration and research of how they affect one another  (... read the bio) 

Technology, Culture, and Communication have always been my passions. Over years, my professional and personal experience turned out to be an exploration and research of how they affect one another, and have taken me to a journey to live and work in four different countries (Brazil where I was born, Japan, Germany – from which I also hold a citizenship -, and the United Kingdom) over the last ten years. Moreover, it has taken me to edit over 25 books in the last seven years, in areas such as advertising, Internet, computer graphics, art, product design, computer games, and others, collaborating with people from over 50 countries. My aim has been to understand how different cultures navigate in this new environment of multi-platform communication, with endless possibilities.
After studying graphic design and marketing, I have left my native Brazil for Japan, where I spent almost four years in Tokyo as an editor and art director for digital and design magazines. I subsequently (2001) joined TASCHEN in Cologne, Germany where, as editor-in-charge, I have been creating a number of titles in a wide range of subjects, from design to pop culture, including Digital Beauties and the popular Web Design and Advertising Now! series. I have also lectured on digital culture, publishing, design, advertising, communication, and technology. In the last couple years I been a speaker at some events around the world, including at TED 2007 (Monterrey), Art Directors Club (Madrid), Benetton Fabrica (Italy), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), EFX (Germany), UOL (São Paulo, Brazil), BNDES (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), CMYK Conference (Barcelona), e-DIT (Germany), Plus Design Conference (Birmingham, UK), and Belgrade Design Week (Serbia). To date my books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
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Graduated from the Business School of Hertfordshire (Bachelor of Arts Marketing Honours) and from the Escuela de Administración de Empresa of Barcelona (Master of International Business), Astrid  (... read the bio) 

Graduated from the Business School of Hertfordshire (Bachelor of Arts Marketing Honours) and from the Escuela de Administración de Empresa of Barcelona (Master of International Business), Astrid Rousseau is a strategic planner from Paris, France.
She started her career as product manager. Passionate by sociology, design and the new communication trends, Astrid decided to go in for strategic planning functions. She contributed to the marketing development of Wandeo (Participative platform of mobile media management) as associate communication manager before joining a communication agency.
Astrid is also co-founder / strategic planner of HUG United and *bd international artistic project (1st edition: EUROPE BY DESIGNERS, 2nd edition: USA BY DESIGNERS).
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Loïc Sattler is currently crafting creative campaigns as an Art Director in Berlin. Since 1999, he has proven his design-skills in web-design, multimedia, print collateral, clothes styling, and corporate  (... read the bio) 

Loïc Sattler is currently crafting creative campaigns as an Art Director in Berlin. Since 1999, he has proven his design-skills in web-design, multimedia, print collateral, clothes styling, and corporate identity. He features clients such as Coca-Cola, Mercedes, L’Oreal, VW, Warner Brothers, D&G, Yamaha, IBM…
He works with special emphasis on aesthetics, creative ideas and communication goals, with a very high attention to details.
Known as efficient, he’s able to manage a creative crew and likes to have a global view on the projects he is working-on.
Loïc's aim is to be understood as an individual who wishes to take things further by empowering his profession to the best of his ability.
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Julien GRANDCLEMENT aka ODBO is a Freelance Art Director & Designer from Paris, France. He started his career as Associate Communication Manager and founded a web agency and an online magazine  (... read the bio) 

Julien GRANDCLEMENT aka ODBO is a Freelance Art Director & Designer from Paris, France. He started his career as Associate Communication Manager and founded a web agency and an online magazine at the end of the 90's. At the same time, he launched the "365.project, a design a day for a full year" personal online art performance.
Well adept in branding, identity, print and interactive design, he has collaborated over the last ten years with artists and the major advertising and interactive agencies.
He is also co-founder / creative director of HUG United and *bd international artistic project (1st edition: EUROPE BY DESIGNERS, 2nd edition: USA BY DESIGNERS).
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Managing one of the most reputable and popular website and operate the world largest e-magazine http://ezine.newwebpick.com business of the creative industry. Current site traffic statistics show about  (... read the bio) 

Managing one of the most reputable and popular website and operate the world largest e-magazine http://ezine.newwebpick.com business of the creative industry. Current site traffic statistics show about an average of 5 million page views and more than 1.5 million unique visitors each month. There are more than 4,000,000 readers subscribed across 155 countries to our NWP E-magazine. Our readers are mostly in the design field from everywhere in the world, they are mainly from USA, Europe, China, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa.
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An entrepreneur; founder and creative director of NINETEEN74.com and Schön! Magazine; developed a magnificent eye for detail  (... read the bio) 

An entrepreneur; founder and creative director of NINETEEN74.com and Schön! Magazine; developed a magnificent eye for detail and talent and started in 2008 gathering creative industry professionals at his webby award winning professional networking platform Nineteen74.com. After moving from Berlin in the metropolis of London, he’s in the midst of revolutionizing the fashion world while spotting and supporting young talent within design, fashion and journalism.
In January 2010 his 5th issue of his outstanding compilation of fashion, art and design of Schön! Magazine will be released.
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