ugo Canu is a book designer and paper architect who creates and collects posters of lost cats. Please contact me if you need anything.

Editing my website made me think about my presence and my identity on the internet. As a graphic designer many tools, gave this opportunity to present our work, I use many of theme. Youtube still one of this media that makes me curious, there is book review, logo criticist, tutorial, and there is my content on this [YouTube] channel.

the diploma is now in few weeks, we print some poster outside of the school. i think it's a way to work, to learn, that talking with outside people that can be part of the working channel. Thanks to Repro54.

Every month I tell it, but we still working on the diploma. here it's me working hard the design of the book about the monobloc.

This year the design departement have work on kustom and bootlegs, of the most popular chair, the monobloc. Basically, I was influenced by this idea of bloc, cube. So the first drafts of this edited object was a cube, many cube. Then because of our practice on billboard I wanted to bring this cube in the format of the billboard. based may be on the patron of the cube. It became a poster, 180x270. But the need for this object was to tell about the workshop the student had been through. A book is the support. As the student I bootleged the precedent forms of this object to assembled a book. her is the poster. Book is in WIP...

One of my goals going into this year was to publish multiple books. Still something I’m looking into. My work at the moment is so temporary, almost cringe and forever fleeting. I love editorial and having it be a physical book makes things feel grounded. Also the type of thing I can send out to creative friends. Collecting visual references here in this [are.na].

The thing by giving a form to a book is that ther is an additional feeling to the content. I'm quiet sensitive to how an object in my hand can feel to me. How my fingers grabs it, the weight, how pages and covers feels when folded. Since my thesis I make models, models of signs, of street, and for sure models of books there not even think for a content, but think as an object. An object that can posibly one day receive content.

The weather is way better now, I take nap in the park near my flat. I read, play footbal with kids, or hang out with friends.

There is a diploma at the end of the year. I see this a a step, as a moment, a check point. every thing is continuous flow. I used to say to Sam that our diploma will be what we always do, experimentations, collectivs moment, books, poster, for concrete events.

This Diploma is just the way we present our practice, our drafts, our questions, and how we talk about it. May be how we feel with this pratcice.

Sam Droual finished and have published the website for Passerelle3 . Passerelle3 was the first work we make together.

This week, Katell Robic and matteo Camaranno, invite us to create lantern, so with matteo we work on a lantern to announce the passerelle workshop.

Valentina Tanni is doing a lecture in our school, with Rose Noury, and Sam Droual, we are communicating on it, here is a billboard we made for fun.

I'm looking at big graphics since a while now. Trucks tails brand writings, or hill side letters thats why I made this thesis about signs. Now as a student I can exercice myself on this kind of Format, a billboard.

So, Happy New Year Every !

We made this one a saturday night. It was freezing cold, we print with our personnal print machine, A4, and we made this big mosaic.

I never know if it’s a good or bad thing that life is not the same for even two weeks at a time. Since last year I'm *obsessed* with this scotch I've seen on the floor in AMSTERSAM With my graphic besti Sam we try to improve our skills in scotch. That mean we buy a lot, different size, different colors, then we draw with it. One day Éric the school's keeper, ask us a mission. We had to make a sign for some furnitures hanging in the corridor. He made the first move, by surrounding the furnitures with this blue tape.

Then Sam and I write down the information, as a sign, as an advice, as a text we walk next to. During the making of it, no drafts, no computer, only tape. Sam add a stroke, I change the angle, he cut a lign, I move it. The sign can be changed whenever you want, whenever we want, we can add tape or move out. Also, Sam is working on a typeface, based on this signs.

The purpose of a master is the research work, also called thesis. This was quiet hard for me. Actually finding a subject that I will engage for a year without being disinterested, is the hard thing.

So mine is about Sign crushes motorist, or a truck driver crushing on road sign. I will put a pdf or something like that. The starter point is this book "learning from LasVegas" by Denis Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and Robert Izenour. They took their student there for an architectural studies of the Strip. Here Signs are architecture, they pretend, they tells us what buildings are for.

Still working on the thesis... Trying to design the book.

I WILL ONLY PAINT RED A.

During this workshop with Ines Cox I paint a red capital A as driving beginner signs. Then for no reasons every evening I paint one, different rounded object to make the circle, then it gave me a scale for A inside it.

Also With Mathilde Mottier and Sam Droual we realize drafts for the school open day. With those draft, I create a langage for myself, like people to animate, or figs to play with.

Mathilde is one of this friend that I love to make thing with. I use the word "thing" becauyse we are always doing strange stuff, between models, objetcs, uniq, design or graphism. Here with Rose Noury we drew this in pur school.

Back to school !

I Love chess, so much, friends gifted me books about it, objectrelated to it. since I'm in art school i've always find a way to play with people, so here in Nancy I decided to open a chess club, it's just a way to invite people to learn, to try, to play with others. So Welcom in the chess club !

i'm from Normandy, My grandmother Silvyanne live not so far from the beach. Since i'm a kid I can go ther, looking at the sea, from the high coast. This Summer with 2 friends Pauline and Antonin, we walk for 2 days the long of the coast. We slept there. Play chess.

Also I visited Sam, who work at TaG in Paris. The office is nice. a bit cliché, but it's Paris.

June is beautifull, I came back in Rouen, Normandy, FR. It's also the music fest, here is my participation.

5 years I'm into lost cats posters. With my besti Théo we printed a big one, no purpose, no cat to find, just a big poster. With Théo our summers are always quiet thge same, we hang out in his flat, our in the street, the nights out, we walking through the street, sometimes we make music, share a drink at a bar with other friends. Or we print big poster we glue.

The End of the Internship. Snif...

Amsterdam is where I feel good, graphic design is different there. Chloé Delchini tells me : it's DisneyLand for graphist. It's true.

For my M1 I had to do a an internship, and during my research I found this writing. Then I found that Cleo TSW is such a good writers, but also a gret graphic designer, she had a imprint house in Amsterdam. So contact her.

So here am I, in Amsterdam, doing an internship with the cool Cleo.

During the May break, I work with the ANRT, for the Symposium of typography.

I had the chance to go to some workshop, and lectures. And this is how we used to digitalized a font.

During the May break, I work with the ANRT, for the Symposium of typography.

I had the chance to go to some workshop, and lectures. And this is how we used to digitalized a font.

My graduation in Caen, FR.

Since a while now my glaze go through vernacular practice, and how is graphic design in my small countryside town.

Thank you my dear friend Maxence Junin for the pictures.