This typewriter was a present from my family and I love it. I’ve kept the same bit of paper in the typewriter from the time I got it, so when people visit they end up typing a little on it every time. This I have scanned in and added to my final piece.
I was born in May 1968, the month student protests and general strikes swept France. 'Be young and shut up' is a suggestion from a revolutionary poster of that era.
I wanted to create a design using clean, simple, graphical vector shapes which felt contemporary and worked overall as an image to draw your interest in. Then when you looked closer you would discover more detail. It's a direct representation of how I like to spend my own spare time, with references to places, films, family and friends. Even though the poster is about me, my hope is that my design is open to interpretation and that the viewer can make their own story up. I just hope that people like it and think it's pretty enough to put on their wall.
