Malte Martin

Of German origin, Malte Martin is a graphic designer influenced by a variety of designers and movements.I would say that he is rather a graphic-plastic designer. Indeed his work is interesting because of painting, substance, shadow and light...
He is a graphic designer for dance company, theatres, concerts, and creates posters and fliers for them.
Malte Martin tries to transmit a certain freshness, a spontaneity. He uses photography and words to evoke emotion.
Malte Martin aims to catch the eye of the passerby, and make him or her want to go and see the play or the concert.
The artist has the greatest esteem for the spectator. He considers them as sensitive and intelligent people and not as customers. He wants them to feel emotion, the meaning of the picture, and its particular atmosphere.Therefore, Malte Martin's work has a personal approach that leads him to build urban installations. His work is considered to be joyous, fragile, sensitive, and ephemeral.Words hold great importance in his work because it's perceived as sounds or resonances. The choice of typography, the size of words, the transparency used,take part in communicating emotion.considered as a sensitive artist, and one who is attentive to viewer's emotion.

You can see work by Malte Martin for the town of St-Blaise here:

http://www.agrafmobile.net/

Michel Bouvet

Michel Bouvet is a French graphic designer who turned very early to poster art and graphics. He works mostly as a poster artist in the arts(theatre ,opera, music, dance, museums and festivals) and for institutions. Bouvet's posters can regularly be seen on the walls of Paris with creations for the Théâtre des Gémeaux similar to Batory's posters. Michel Bouvet's graphics are characterised by a dynamic use of colour, a love of typography and a certain sculptural dimension. He generally uses photography and everyday objects. The typography is part of the picture. Michel Bouvet uses it to underline emotion or sensibility of subject, like the theme of a play.

We can say that Michet Bouvet is a reference in French graphic design. That which do Michel Bouvet's strengths are a great simplicity and a immediate warm contact with the viewer.

For example, in the poster intitled "l'Idiot", we can only see a red plastic funnel with two eyes. It's simple, rudimentary, but we can't forget this image. This is the strength of Michel Bouvet'art and the strength of his posters.

Most people criticize his style and reproach him for a certain facility and too great simplicity. I think they are mistaken, because what they believe to be weakness is Michel Bouvet's talent.

His work might be discarded by some, but others recognize him as a reference.

So his style can also be found in the works of other graphic artists.

You can see other works of Michel Bouvet here:

http://www.pixelcreation.fr/graphismeart-design/graphisme/graphisme-pictural-michel-bouvet/

Michal Batory

Michal Batory is a famous graphic designer in France. We can safely assume that every Parisian has already seen a poster by Batory in the street or in the subway. Indeed, Michel Batory often works for theatre companies like "le theâtre CHAILLOT" and created a big advertising campaign for it. What I prefer in his art is his work with the human body : he diverts it and uses it like an object. He uses it in funny or strange positions. On the flip side, he uses objects or food as if they were human. He adds human body parts like hands, eyes or arms.
His posters are a shake-up of collage using objects and typography in movementwords are used like subjects or pictures.The typography is original, funny and dynamic. You could say that Michal Batory changes and confuses codes of conventional typography.
He uses words not only for information, but also to participate in the picture and accentuate it.Each emotion felt in the poster is the emotion of the theatrical work he is illustrating. In the photo (the mouth), you can suppose that the piece of theatre will be about woman and her sensuality.
Michal Battory is a sensitive artist who uses objects and emotions in a thoughtful manner.

You can see a panel of Michal Batory's posters in the site:


http://artvision.typepad.com/photos/michal_batory_graphiste/index.html