AOL Artists

Associates since 1993, Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz are two graphic designers who, in the late 1990s, participated in creating the graphic design equivalent of French touch, a term primarily denoting French electronic musicians of the same generation.

Belonging to the first wave of graphic designers to work naturally with computer-generated imagery, they imposed their own radically innovative style, creating their typography and illustrations from collages and photographed three-dimensional models using markers, felt pen and vector graphics software.

Antoine and Manuel combine their personal visual expressions in a world in which dreams, the bizarre and surrealism rub shoulders. Their work embraces sensation, emotion, touch and decorativeness, rejecting the rigor and functionalism prevalent for so long in graphic design.

It was their penchant for visual exuberance that captivated couturier Christian Lacroix. They redesigned the couture house's visual identity, and since 2002 have been designing the invitation cards for his shows.

In 2009 Antoine+Manuel had their first major solo exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (January-May 2009), they also showed for the first time at the Milan furniture fair, Cabinet, Tout va bien a sideboard produced by BD Barcelona. From November 2009 to mid-February 2010, their Paris exhibition moved to Hong Kong in a totally new scenography they specially created for the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (27 November 2009-17 February 2010).