Paris region
“ Manufacturing secrets ”: when graphic design and cabinetmaking come together
The “ Manufacturing Secrets ” project was born of a desire to articulate technological and artistic know-how between two art crafts. It was conceived for students in the first year of the baccalauréat professionnel artisanat et métiers d’art design graphique at the Lycée professionnel de la communication et des industries graphiques in Osny, and for those in the cabinetmaking training unit of Apprentis d’Auteuil in Sannois. The project highlights the importance of decompartmentalizing art, reaching out to the universal, forgetting the laws of categories and reconsidering creation in an interdisciplinary context.
Its aim is to bring together the excellence of traditional woodworking skills with the technological innovation of graphic design, thus combining two distinct fields of expertise. Students from both schools, who have become co-authors of the project, will imagine and design furniture products based on geometric grids and motifs used by painters since the 15th century and by designers and artists since the 19th century.
Used since time immemorial by builders, painters and sculptors, the grid establishes a harmony of proportions between all the formal elements of a composition. ”Manufacturing Secrets” explores numerous works using the grid as a pre-existing geometric construction.
In effect, the lines are made up of curves generated by mathematical formulas. These constructions will also be studied a posteriori as a means of analysis to unlock the secret of a work and understand the intelligence behind its creation. The aim is to encourage students to reflect on the laws and pre-established conventions of art, on the one hand, and on the concept of “risk-taking”, associated with an experimental approach that welcomes the unexpected, on the other.
