I havetwelve fourteen years old. Am I a graphic designer, or a designer, or a company manager or a freelancer? I don’t really know anymore. What is certain is that I have twelve fourteen years of experience. This article is part of a series of articles on the profession of designer. We also invite you to read Designer manual n°1 , n°2 and n°3 before reading this one! The objective is to approach without taboos, in a messy, subjective and non-exhaustive way the contours of this profession! In this fourth edition, these are reflections written in the days following the Paris attacks of November 13, 2015. Initially written under the influence of emotion, we preferred to wait a few months to publish it. Probably to reread each other cold.
Far from the very strong emotional photo retouching service context of the time. It is a complex subject, on which we absolutely do not claim to have certainties. So don’t hesitate to bring your thoughts in the comments, which we are sure will bring water to the mill of these questions. Be indignant as you can! [ Written on November 14, 2015 ] While the hearts of victims, their loved ones, Parisians and Paris are bleeding, it is difficult to remain silent with fear. If our thoughts go immediately to all these people, if silence takes hold of us for a few moments, our voice needs to cry out its indignation. So we re-read “ Indignez-vous! ” by Stéphane Hessel. This text concludes with “ To create is to resist. To resist is to create .” As a graphic designer, our words are expressed in images.
This Friday the 13th, faced with the images of this barbarity taking place live on our screens, I had no other possibility than to take a pencil and exorcise this dread on paper. Look at a white sheet so as not to look at the darkness of these images. Not to flee, but to confront it with the weapon of creation. In such moments, there are many expressions of indignation. Everyone feels the need to express themselves, to commune, to share. A multitude of images are produced. Violent, poetic, political, humanistic, funny, sad, and always modest and immense at the same time. If generally nobody signs these images, it is well by disinterested donation to the community. It would obviously be inappropriate to affix a signature to it, or worse to sell it.
