Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

For the month of August, a series of guests will be fill­ing in on DWL with daily posts. Today’s posts come to you from France-based designer Fabien Barral. For more from Fabien, check out his port­fo­lio or blog, or his upcom­ing project Mr. Cup.

Earlier in 2012, I decided with my wife and daugh­ter to leave our home and go to see the world! Being a graphic designer has this advan­tage of being able to work from any­where (as long as you have a web con­nec­tion, of course). The aim was to meet crafts­men to develop some prod­ucts, to fol­low the suc­cess we had with the har­monie interieure wall sticker and the let­ter­press cal­en­dar. During the trip we spend a month in Bali, and it was one of the most cre­ative expe­ri­ences I’ve ever had… It was so easy to find peo­ple that can bring to life what I have in mind… Doing the har­monie intérieure stick­ers is some­thing, but I always want to push my love for let­ters to another level… I’ve had the idea of a Helvetica wood let­ters col­lec­tion for a long long time, so it is some­thing spe­cial for me to present these first images… They were taken ear­lier in June, when I got the first sam­ples from Mr. Eka, the wood crafts­man I met in Bali and am work­ing with…

There will be two Helvetica col­lec­tions, one in Suar wood, a local com­mon wood, and a sec­ond one in col­ors, made of recy­cled teak wood… Each alpha­bet will be in lim­ited edi­tion of 500 let­ters… com­ing in small fab­ric bags I will show you next time…

They will be on sale soon at www​.mr​-cup​.com, my new project I am work­ing on too ;)