“Design is a vital value, that finds its balance with art, techniques, economy, strategy, chance, innovation, for which there is no recipe.”F.C.  SINGS WITH A PURPOSE Messages designer and consultant since 1989, based in Paris, François Caspar has designed customized overall visual communication for European and French local government bodies, companies, theaters and artists. He creates in solo or coordinates a European multi-disciplinary network of specialists. EXHIBITIONS-PUBLICATIONS François Caspar’s posters have been shown in over 80 international exhibitions, sometimes awarded, sometimes censured. They belong to public and private collections as in Paris, Hamburg or New York and they have been published in specialized magazines or books such as Art and design, Etapes, Experimenta, Idea, Pixel Creation, Signes and New Masters of Poster Design. COMMITMENT François Caspar is cofounder-president 2003-2005 of the French Designers Alliance, the first multi-disciplinary professional organization of designers in France. He focuses on exchanges with European colleagues, design fee, rights and intellectual property issues. He is the author of Profession independent graphic designer (Profession graphiste indépendant, available in French only), guidebook published by the French ministry of Culture. TEACHING He passes on his experience in visual communication and designers’ rights and duties at design schools or in workshops in France and abroad. He has been member of juries for international design competitions. | >français