Florian Tripoteau is a French creative and graphic designer operating from Spaceship Earth.
He primarily designs visuals for apparel, posters and album covers.
Since 2020, he has been curating curieux catalogue, a research-driven project focused on the collection of rare, antique, or hard-to-find printed objects.
In 2022, he began contributing to the development of a graphic language at Puma.
The art of translation - February 2025
La conquête de l’espace, People of Print - July 2020
Our 28 Favourite T-shirt Designs, Everpress - December 2019
La conquête de l’espace, People of Print - November 2019
Why Fashion Can’t Stop Envisioning The Future, Morna Fraser - October 2019
A Year of T-shirts Drops with Florian Tripoteau, Everpress - May 2019
« 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. »
« To be a graphic designer is to be an arranger, a curator, a collector of signs. It is about uncovering, reinterpreting and carrying forward visual languages that shape our world.
Our past, filled with images, texts and signs, should be cherished, as these objects are not just inert things. They are a direct link to a culture, a language and a perception of the world.
As graphic designers, it’s up to us to bring these signs back or learn from them in order to open up new doors.
But in a world where images are everywhere, how can we continue to create meaning rather than just visuals? If the vernacular is an ever-evolving source of inspiration, how can we ensure that we’re not just borrowing from it, but also contributing to it in meaningful ways? »
« For Florian, the biggest difference between designing posters or books and designing T-shirts is that, as people will be wearing your T-shirts, they want to feel a personal connection to them. This links to a wider point, that part of creating an ongoing series of tees is in really understanding your audience, and creating a visual identity that they can keep relating to. “I find the biggest thing I have to keep in mind is that T-shirts are all about expressing a personality – you’re building a community, it’s like being part of a club or a gang,” Florian says. “That’s why when I’m designing a T-shirt, the first thing I ask myself is: what am I sharing and with who? »