//00 PROLOGUE
I work in the dark,
until ideas form constellations.
Nox Bellaire — multi-disciplinary designer between identity, editorial, product, type and wayfinding. The atlas below is five works, each plotted as a constellation. Scroll to fly between them.
//I AETHERION · MMXXIV · IDENTITY
The Æ ligature
held aloft by nine stars.
A monogram identity for an ambient electronics atelier. We plotted the Æ ligature as a sky-chart, then redrew it as a foil-stamped folio. Nine stars, one mark.
//II LUMIÈRE MAISON · MMXXIII · EDITORIAL
A lantern,
spelled in ten stars.
Editorial system for a journal of light architecture. The masthead is a constellation of ten; the cover grid is its shadow on the page.
//III GLASSWING · MMXXII · PRODUCT
Twelve stars,
a butterfly in glass.
Packaging system for a Tokyo perfumery. Each bottle refracts the room into a wing-shape; the constellation is the brand-mark behind the diffusion.
//IV CANTOS ATELIER · MMXXI · TYPE
A serif A,
drawn from eight stars.
Display family commissioned by a Berlin writers' union for chapter openings. Each capital begins as a constellation, then settles into ink.
//V NORVALLIS RAIL · MMXX · WAYFINDING
Eleven stars,
a compass for the lost.
Wayfinding for a Stockholm rail terminal that must read identically in twenty languages. The constellation became the symbol — north was always overhead.
//VI ABOUT THE ATELIER
An atelier, quiet,
working under stars.
Nox Bellaire is a designer of five disciplines and one method: hold the brief in the dark long enough for its parts to become visible as a single figure. Then draw the figure. Trained at l'École Estienne (Paris). Worked through Berlin, Tokyo, Lisbon, Stockholm. Returns to Paris between commissions.
- i. Identity, editorial, product, type, wayfinding
- ii. Two commissions a year, no more
- iii. Each project documented as a folio
- iv. Studio runs on starlight and slow espresso
//VII CONTACT THE OBSERVER
Two commissions a year.
Write into the dark.
If your brief reaches before the next equinox, we'll plot it. Otherwise, the stars wait.
[email protected] · Paris · MMXXVI