Malika Favre
Malika Favre (born 14 December 1982) is a French illustrator and graphic artist based in Barcelona. Her style of works could be characterized by pure minimalism within Pop art and Op art, where it sometimes described as 'Pop Art meets Op Art'. She combines simple illustrations with geometric patterns and has developed a unique style of illustration by using positive and negative space and colours, elegant layouts, especially of the female body and its curves.
Malika Favre
- Name
- Malika Favre
- Born
- 1 December 1982
- Birthplace
- Paris region, France
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- illustrator · graphic artist · designer
- Fields
- pop art
- Education
- École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art · Surrey Institute of Art & Design and University College
- Languages
- French
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Malika Favre (born 14 December 1982) is a French illustrator and graphic artist based in Barcelona. Her style of works could be characterized by pure minimalism within Pop art and Op art, where it sometimes described as 'Pop Art meets Op Art'. She combines simple illustrations with geometric patterns and has developed a unique style of illustration by using positive and negative space and colours, elegant layouts, especially of the female body and its curves.
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Malika Favre (born 1982) is a French designer, graphic artist and illustrator. The designer was born in Île-de-France.
Malika Favre studied at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. The designer lived in Barcelona.
Genres include pop art. Languages used include French.
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Biography
Biography
Malika Favre studied at École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art and Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are pop art. Residence is recorded at Barcelona.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Malika Favre • Born — 1 December 1982 • Birthplace — Paris region, France • Alma Mater — * Olivier de Serres • Surrey Institute of Art & Design • Style — * Pop Art • Op Art • Website — malikafavre.com
Early life and education
Early life and education
Malika Favre was born on 14 December 1982 in the Paris region, France, and grew up there. Her mother was a painter. After high school Favre went to a science prep school because she thought that she wanted to become a quantic engineer. But later decided to enroll in École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, which is often known as Olivier de Serres. She graduated from Olivier de Serres, and moved to London, to study illustration at Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College in Farnham.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Start your engines, cover of Arab News by Malika Favre in 2018. • Illustration — Favre's art "Behind the Lens", cover of The New Yorker, February 2020 Favre did an internship for three months at Airside, a British design studio which closed in 2012. In 2006, she started work as an Art Director at Airside, which led to collaborations with numerous high-profile magazines and clients including wallpaper and The Sunday Times. She also worked for UNIT9 in 2006. In 2011 she left Airside to set herself up as an independent illustrator.
Works
Works
Favre is an independent illustrator and has worked on a variety of projects spanning editorial, advertising and publishing. Her unique graphics style, mixing Pop and Op art, is featured by companies such as Sephora, Le Bon Marché, Penguin Books, and newspapers such as Vogue, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times, and Vanity Fair. In 2017, she created the poster artwork for the Montreux Jazz Festival, and continued to work with the festival in subsequent years. In 2021, Favre illustrated the poster for Barcelona's annual La Mercè festival.
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Works and production
Works and production
Catalogued output is recorded as follows. Institutional cataloguing adds that allegorie à l'Amour (Homage to Love) (Furnishing Fabric) is dated c. Le Bain d'Amour (Love Bath) (Furnishing Fabric) is dated c.
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- Barcelona
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Île-de-France.
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Publications
In October 2019, Malika Favre released her first monograph. Published in the UK by Counter-Print, it divides her work into seven key themes with commentary by the artist. In 2022, an expanded edition was published.
Cover Illustrations
• With Bags and Swags: Around Australia in the Forties (2008, by Wendy Suart) • London at home (2010, by Magda Segal) • Kama Sutra (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), (2012, by Vatsyayana) • When the Rains Come (2012, by Tom Pow) • The Burgermat Show (2013, by Burgerac) • Stickyscapes Paris (2015) • Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective (2017, by Alan Male) • This Impossible Light (2017, by Lily Myers) • Love by the Book (2017, by Melissa Pimentel)
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- 1.Jasanada, Alicia. Malika Favre, el universo femenino, poderoso y a todo color de la autora del cartel de la Mercè 2021. La Vanguardia. 21 September 2021.
- 2.Savić, Vesna. Pop Art meets Op Art by Malika Favre. popwebdesign. 23 April 2018.
- 3.The Great Discontent. Malika Favre. 10 April 2012.
- 4.Illustrations par Malika Favre : La Mode en Vectoriel. Maxi Tendance. 11 November 2011.
- 5.Guardian Masterclasses. What every illustrator should know. The Guardian. 21 May 2013.
- 6.JDN. Malika FAVRE. journaldunet.com.
- 7.Cowan, Katy. Malika Favre on bright colours, drawing naughty things and how to grow as an illustrator. Creative Boom. 4 February 2016.
- 8.Malika Favre, une illustratrice à la Une. 10 January 2017.
- 9.Hu, Ray. Malika Favre Takes On the Kama Sutra for Penguin. core77. 27 January 2012.
- 10.Mouly, Françoise. Cover Story: "In the Shade," by Malika Favre. The New Yorker. 12 September 2016.
- 11.Malika Favre. Communication Arts. 2017-11-30.
- 12.Marylou Faure takes on poster design for Montreux Jazz Festival following the likes of Andy Warhol and Malika Favre. www.itsnicethat.com.
- 13.Today in 24 English. The Mediterranean Queen. today.in-24.com. 4 September 2021.
- 14.Suart, Wendy. With Bags and Swags: Around Australia in the Forties. Dingo Books. 2008. 9780955603815.
- 15.Segal, Magda. London at home. Cornerhouse. 1993. 9780948797088.
- 16.Penguin Classics. Kama Sutra. 31 January 2012. 978-0-14-310659-3.
- 17.Pow, Tom. When the Rains Come. Birlinn Limited. 2012. 9781846972065.
- 18.Burgerac. The Burgermat Show. Nobrow Limited. 2013. 9781907704697.
- 19.Laurence King Publishing. Stickyscapes Paris. 2015. 9781856699563.
- 20.Male, Alan. Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2017. 9781474263047.
- 21.Myers, Lily. This Impossible Light. Penguin Young Readers Group. 6 June 2017. 9780698188846.
- 22.Pimentel, Melissa. Love by the Book. Penguin Books. 2017. 9780718186852.
- 23.Malika Favre. Communication Arts. 2020-04-20.
- 24.New and expanded Malika Favre monograph is a minimalist marvel. Creative Boom. 2022-02-15.
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