El arte de la ficción & Las implacables

Design éditorial & Illustration
Collection de livres | Maison d’édition

Direction artistique, illustrations, conception graphique et mise en page des couvertures et rabats des livres El arte de la ficción de Willa Cather, et Las implacables de Deborah Nelson, pour la Collection Essais de Monte Hermoso Ediciones.

140 x 220 mm
El arte de la ficción (200 pages)
Las implacables (328 pages)

  • Client

    Monte Hermoso Ediciones

  • Year

    2018

  • Roles

    Directeur Artistique, Directeur Artistique, Graphiste, Illustrateur, Maquettiste

  • Team

    Direction & Édition : Monte Hermoso Ediciones

    Direction de projet : Cecilia Nuin

    Direction artistique & Design graphique : Theo Contestin

    Illustration : Theo Contestin

Theo

Art Director

Theo

Art Director

Art director and graphic designer, Theo graduated from the École Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques et Architecture Intérieure (ESAG Penninghen) in Paris in 2012. He has gained diverse experience in graphic design studios as well as working as a freelance, delivering projects for publishing houses, cultural institutions, companies, foundations, universities, artists, galleries, and exhibitions. Passionate and deeply committed, he enjoys building projects through dialogue, bringing particular care and a thoughtful eye to each assignment. His work spans image-making, graphic design, art direction, editorial design, visual identity and visual communication, exhibition design, digital, and motion design. Science, music, art, design, history, architecture and urban expression, gastronomy, current affairs, travel, landscape, and culture more broadly all feed into and inspire his daily work and creative process.

Publications and awards

Expositions collectives •• Fiesta Grafika. Latin-Amerikai Grafikusok Kiállítása (Pécsi Galéria, Hongrie, 2021) • Bienal del Cartel Bolivia BICeBé 2019 (Espacio de Arte Manzana 1, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 2021 | Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, 2020) • Ecuador Poster Bienal 2020 • Fiesta Gráfica. Michel Bouvet et ses amis d’Amérique Latine (Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris, 2019) • Fête du graphisme 3. Graphisme des antipodes. Buenos Aires-Stockholm (Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 2016) • 12ª Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México (Museo Arocena, Torreón, 2013 | Museo Franz Mayer, Ciudad de México, 2012)

Brands

Editorial Planeta, Ediciones Paidós, Editores Argentinos, Monte Hermoso Ediciones, Hachette Livre, France Télévisions, Renault Argentine, Banco Macro, Mercedes Benz, Fundación OSDE, Instituto de Artes Mauricio Kagel UNSAM, CCI France Argentine, Institut français d’Argentine

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