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I could only take advantage of a short course with Fokke Draaijer who, apologies, was not a founding member of Grapus but Atelier de Création graphique created with the main founder of Grapus, Pierre Bernard… I was unfortunately not in a graphic design school which I could not join given my path in literature and languages (education was organised in tight silos in France in the 90s) and the only school I could join in the hope of finding a way to graphic design was the newly created École Nationale de Création Industrielle the gouvernement of Francois Mitterand had wanted to relaunch the public education of a new generation of industrial designers.

Draaijer made us work on poster type exercises.

I wish I had more classes like his :)

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Bonjour Richard :)

Thank you for this article. I remember how Grapus was influencing design when I was in design school. One of their founding members taught us and I loved the class. To this day I think of them whenever visiting the Louvre, which new identity project made them part ways.

My favourite ones are Fukuda’s and Glaser’s middle logos.

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Fantastic. I had come across the studio before but there work immediately stood out in this set. They seem quite early into DTP for design. How did you find their teaching methods?

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