Christopher wilson
Art Director / https://vanwilson.co.uk/
Christopher wilson
Art Director / https://vanwilson.co.uk/
Based in
Paris, France
Seniority
More than 10 years experience
Age
37 years old
Gender
Male
Nationality
France
Represented by
https://vanwilson.co.uk/
Resume
About

Half French, half English graphic & motion designer.
Graduated in 2013 with a master II in Art direction
at ESAG Penninghen, Paris.
Working as a freelancer for agencies & clients around the world, such as Quantic Dream, Sidlee, Yorgo&Co, Parallel.tv, for brands like Mitsubishi, Omega, Cartier, Black

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crows and others.

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Founder & Creative Director
Sons & Father 2025 - 2025

Creating a branding studio alongside my
father, a branding wizard, my brother
a creative director, and I. We have worked
on several branding projects for cosmetics,
luxury and fashion brands. A natural
chemistry operates between us, to deliver
a complete branding, from the naming to
the manifesto and

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of course the brand's
visual identity and iconography.

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Art director
Cartier 2021 - 2025
France

Working for Cartier alongside Nicolas
Guiramand head of the brand identity on
internal projects such as creating the full
identity of the Cartier world meetings
among other projects. Designing all the aspects
of the communication of the event, from the
logotype, to the animated trailer, and the
whole

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layouts for the content compositions.

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Art director
TV5 MONDE 2020 - 2021
France

Winning the competition to work on the
rebranding of TV5 MONDE a french
& international television channel. Working
alongside Fabrice Guenau and Ivan Grangeon
from Dream On Agency, we thought the
whole graphic system and identity for all their
needs, from trailers to jingles, idents to print,
with st

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rong design throughout all the assets
produced and supervised by ourselves.

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Art director & motion designer
Yorgo&Co 2019 - 2020
Paris, France

Working closely with Yorgo Tloupas on all
graphical aspects of the brand, designing
the entire ski collection and working
alongside the stylist on the whole apparel
collection for the year 2020.

Art director & motion designer
Sidlee 2017 - 2019
Paris, France

Art director of Mitsubishi TVC campaign
movies, brand content and award winning
immersive website experience

Art director & motion designer
quantic dream 2017 - 2018
Paris, France

In charge of creating all the graphic user
interfaces for the entire game experience.
Designing logotypes and signage for the entire
city of Detroit. A colossal amount of assets
were needed to fill up the city with visuals

Winner
typomania
2015
Paris, France

Karloff animated typeface

Co-founder & creative driector
Parallel.studio Jan. 1, 2014 - Jan. 1, 2015
Paris, France

Co-founder & creative director

Master 2
ESAG Penninghen Sep. 1, 2008 - Jul. 1, 2013
Paris, France

Master II in art direction

Bachelor degree
Willem de Kooning Academy WDKA Jan. 1, 2011 - Jan. 1, 2012
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bachelor degree in graphic & motion design

Industry sectors

Culture

Advertising

Fashion

Gaming

Beauty

Digital

Luxury

Skills

Graphic design

Motion Design

Art direction

Branding

Software skills

After effects

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe InDesign

Adobe Photoshop

Languages

French

Native language

English

Native language

Spanish

Professional knowledge

Types of contracts
Freelance / Missions
Part time
Collaboration
Etapes graphique : Karloff

Aprés « Futura le spécimen animé », Thibault de Fournas et Christopher Wilson reviennent avec une nouvelle animation typographique réalisée en collaboration avec Peter Bilak. Autour du « Karloff », cette production présente en mouvements, un caractère issu de la convergence entre les polices modernes

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Bodoni et Didot avec le décrié Italian.

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Etapes graphique : Futura animé

Largement utilisé et diffusé depuis sa création par le typographe allemand Paul Renner, le Futura est un caractère publié en 1927 par la fonderie Bauer. Désormais, il fait partie des typographies qui occupent une place de choix au panthéon des « écritures de notre temps ». Son succès se confirme au f

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ur et à mesure des années jusqu’à acquérir une dimension culturelle. Thibault de Fournas et Christopher Wilson, deux étudiants de l’Esag Penninghen, reviennent avec cette courte vidéo animée sur les fondements du « Futura ».

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