and Opera78 is my design project, established in Paris in 2005.

I'm an Illustrator since 1994 with strong background in Typography and Graphic Design.
I specialize in traditional art, with just my ink gel pens in hand – it's what I truly love.
I've been drawing all my life so that really helped me to form the style of art I have right now.

T. +33 6 85 10 32 06 | opera78@gmail.com

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Art Illustration for magazines :
Esquire Magazine (U.S. Edition), New York Times, Die Zeit Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Men’s Health, Playboy, INTERNI and Elsevier Magazines

In collaboration with local advertising agencies:
Nike - Nike Air Jordan, Burton Snowboards, Nidecker Snowboards, Procter & Gamble,
Absolut - Absolut Vodka, WWF, Amnesty International, Air Canada - Canadian Airlines, Aeroflot - Russian Airlines

And with international advertising networks:
TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles CA, TBWAChiatDay New York NY, Saatchi & Saatchi Moscow, DDB Amsterdam,
Wieden+Kennedy, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), Serial Cut, Contexta AG, Nothing Commercial Creativity, and many others.


Some people asked for a kind of tutorial about my way to draw.
Ok, this post will give you an idea about how do I work.

They say that tracing photos is below human dignity and that starting career as a prostitute would be less of a dishonour.
I was once told to stop wasting time tracing photos and start drawing properly.
Which means that a watercolour still life with a fake antique vase and clay apples is cool and this little girl that I traced on a piece of A4 is crap.

For the record, I don't think an illustrator must be trained to draw and paint, he's not trying to be an artist after all.
So I prefer to keep it the way it is, thank you very much.




Beyond publications in newspapers and magazines, tens of interviews in print or online magazines or blogs,
my illustrations has been published in a considerable number of contemporary graphic design and art illustration books.

Some of the recent art books that published my work are:

• Taschen: The Field Guide for Graphic Designers (late 2011)
• Rockport Publishers: Idea-ology (2010)
• Thames & Hudsun: New Ornamental Type (2010)
• Harper Collins Design: Source Illustration Book (2010)
• Die Gestalten Verlag: Illusive 2 (2008), The Playful Type (2009), The Playful Type 2 (2011)