Apparel
Florian Tripoteau is a French creative and graphic designer operating from Spaceship Earth. He designs mostly visuals for apparel, posters, record covers, sounds and some other stuff. You can reach out to him at hello⟳floriantripoteau.fr.
Curator at Curieux Catalogue.
For Florian Tripoteau, garments, and especially t-shirts, are a way to share 🤲 and distribute ideas 🧠 and knowledge 📖. The printed surface of the t-shirt works as a space to (re)connect 🌐 with some elements of our histories and cultures. It is about opening up new horizons and a space for conversation.
Florian Tripoteau’s practice, which mainly consist in digging ⛏️, collecting 📚 and arranging 🗂️ things, is led by a will to (re)activate 🧬, (re)purpose ♻️ and combine 🔗 images, texts and signs, in order to question 💭 the contemporary and our future, through a collage of heterogeneous material, and eventually, the things we wear.
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“For some artists, the exploration of intergalactic imagery, cosmic graphics and motifs is a form of defiance in itself. Designer Florian Tripoteau includes these themes in his work to experiment with a rhetoric of rebellion. Citing La conquête de l’espace as one of his major cultural influences, Florian Tripoteau postulates that ‘visual pollution and the conquest of public space by advertising devices is already happening on Earth. For me, over-using space-related imagery in my designs is a way to question it all and say I am aware of this conquest.’ Like Carlings and The Fabricant, Florian Tripoteau is sceptical of the dominance of powerful, third-party companies over our domestic spaces, whether that be through the clothes we wear, or through everyday offline and online media saturation. Similarly to Marine Serre, Florian’s intrigue with the future is rooted in the sociopolitical. For designers like these, there is an awareness that they are creating products for consumption, yet they are questioning the very fundamentals and processes of unconscious consumerism. When the medium becomes the message, this self-awareness is integral to the process of creating futurist fashion.”