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Welcome to my website, my name is Clara Pasteau, I am currently graphic designing and coding between France and Belgium [2020 → now]
Previously working as a front-end developer at
Unseen in Amsterdam, NL [2019]
last update of this page : 12 / 11 / 2024
available for work : 01 / 02 / 2025
I love building
handmade *ephemeral* websites and collaborate!
You can contact me by e-mail at clarapasteau[at]gmail[dot]com for design or coding related inquiries.
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Starting now a residency with Marie-Mam Sai Bellier of the contemporary art center
Les Capucins, in the french Alps
Just joined the collective
OSP in Brussels, BE
Working with Auriane Preud'homme on the identity of the Swiss association
Danced Stances
Finalizing artist Ines Malfaisan's website
Working on artist HaYoung's website
Making the research project website "The Illness Narratives" for Laurie Charles
Finishing and maintaining websites here and there
Collecting quotes of the books I'm reading with a pen this year
here
The mini-series 'What's More Important than Two Women Talking About Web Development?' by Maisa Imamović and me:
Ep. 1/3 'Memorable Websites'
Ep. 2/3 'A Motherfucking Website'
Ep. 3/3 'Therapy for Web Developers'
Hosts: Maisa Imamović and Clara Pasteau
Filming and Production: Tommaso Campagna, Jordi Viader Guerrero
Video Editing and Animation: Anastasia Dolitsay
Intro Music: Daniel Leix-Palumbo
Graphic Design (background): Mieke Gerritzen
Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2022.
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2024
Lecture
KABK
Did a lecture at the KABK in Den Haag, NL, before teaching a class as a guest teacher :)
HTML (Hyper Tensions Mindful Liberation) meditations written and recorded at the
Hackers and Designers Summer camp last July.
Identity made with OSP for iMAL's new exhibition, using permacomputing methods. An article about it will soon be published :)
Article about a "Scrapbooking extension" built during the
Declarations research group one week workshop in October.
Built this website using Iván Mcgill's identity made for this new edition of the Overkill Festival.
2024
Identity
Design
Poster made with Marie-Mam Sai Bellier for Radouan Zeghidour's exhibition at Les Capucins, in Embrun FR.
This is an ongoing project : we have just started with Auriane Preud'homme to develop the identity of Danced Stances,
a Swiss association that will curate and perform in physical and political spaces. A website will also come along.
2024
Identity
Design
Together with Marie-Mam Sai Bellier we were invited to develop the new identity of the contemporary art center
Les Capucins, in the french Alps.
In June, we came to Embrun to further our research on the skills and visual symbols of the Hautes-Alpes, met with wood artisans, and began building, in collaboration with the artists, the visual identity for the upcoming exhibitions at the art center.
This is the first poster for the printed and digital communication. In November we'll spend about a month at the art center to continue our research and development.
2024
Identity
Design & production
First project @ OSP :-)
Together with Simon Browne we pen plotted 42 posters for the upcoming exhibition "NaturArchy" at
iMAL
We primarily used bio inks from the
Laboratorium in Ghent, which are made with natural pigments and algaes ⛈️
We also experimented with coffee, turmeric and soy sauce. Simon and I wrote also a
text that explains more in depth the process.
Hopefully the sun will cause the posters to fade by September ⛅️
Atelier Brenda and Studio Latitude asked me to code their colorful and cascading design for the German booking agency TS agency.
Tranquil Words Today is a writing tool. It aims to be helpful when having a writing practice or wanting to experiment with automatic writing, surrounded by a loud internet.
How it works:
— Start writing
— You won’t be able to see your text, it’s i……n…v…….i..…s….i.…b…l……e
— Let go…
— And keep writing
— Stay here
— Don’t change tab, or you will lose your text!
— Click on the clock if you want a 10’ timer
— You can change the background color depending
on your mood
Tech insights:
— Built with Html, Css and Javascript only
— There is no database
— You can’t right click
— You can’t select your text
— You can’t delete your text
— If you change window, your text will vanish and you will have to start again
Bolette is a curatorial project by Trine Stephensen "taking over private spaces around the world – integrating playful exhibitions into a series of inspiring homes". Coming SooOOoon
Pau Simon is a French choreographer and dancer based in Marseille, France. They needed a website showing their multiple practices. We used the typeface "Baskervvol" by the collective Bye Bye Binary.
Together with Marie-Mam Sai Bellier we are resident at Passages, a contemporary art center in Troyes, FR. We are currently redesigning the visual identity of “Passages,” which originates from an environment observation residency at the art center. The launch of this new graphic design and the new website is planned for September 2023.
Based on a set of specifications, our travels across the Aubois region, and our interactions with local cultural figures (historians, artisans, specialized production entities, etc.), our focus has been on two main aspects:
— The need to enhance the visibility of Passages by invigorating its identity with a strong graphic message.
— The recurrence of forms linked to the history of crafts in the city.
As a result, the forms we have created for this purpose, leading to a new logo, an alphabet of initials, and structuring graphic elements of the new identity, are all adaptable into art objects. This will constitute a secondary phase of Passages’ identity deployment: signage created in collaboration with metalworkers, letter painters, or even master glassmakers is being considered for 2024.
This is the digital publication of my text "The Computer Store" I wrote in 2022. It was initially published and edited by
Soapbox Journal for their printed issue 4.0 At the Interface. Thank you Pepe for your precious help, thanks to my friends from the Gobstoppers, and Maisa Imamović for being my forever hopeful coding soulmate.
2023
Text
Writing
This is the printed publication of my text "The Computer Store" I wrote in 2022. It was published and edited by
Soapbox Journal for their printed issue 4.0 At the Interface. Thank you Pepe for your precious help, thanks to my friends from the Gobstoppers, and Maisa Imamović for being my forever hopeful coding soulmate.
The Consortium Design Market will take place in Dijon at the end of September. Victor Sirot invited me to code the event vitrine website!
2023
Logo
Design
Spiraling M logo for beautiful jewellery brand by Mileva Testas
JAJA SERVICE is a production company based in Ibiza. The website is designed by Atelier Brenda <3 and I coded it. I used a weather API to be able to see the speed of the wind IRL since Ibiza is apparently a very windy island. You can also carve your cazy thoughts on the homepage.
I designed this website for the project ARCADE / SENTIMENTAL by Tsirihaka Harrivel. ARCADE / SENTIMENTAL is a series of intercative installations, that you can enter and experience. This website was born to create a digital space explaining the project with an interactive and playful layer. It was coded by Michaël Tamimy, who also programmed the physical installation! You could visit the installation YOU at le 104 in Paris, last winter.
I made this website with ressources for my coding class at Estienne Paris. The students built their own websites (rooms) that can be accessed through the door of the villa. They learned first CSS when drawing their own doors.
Calendar website for the exhibition 'A glittering ruin sucked upwards' for HISK laureates exhibition 2022 in Brussels. Timeless graphic design by Atelier Brenda!
Landing and introduction page for danish association re:arc — scroll scroll scrolllllll!
Online presence for artist Elise Fahey, colors and light and images may evolve
Together with Manon Bachelier we designed the identity of the Overkill Festival. The remote in the center becomes the menu to navigate through the festival information.
Designed and coded this potato game for
Foam, a photography museum in Amsterdam, NL. This is part of the exhibition ‘Foam 3H: Ana Núñez Rodríguez Cooking Potato Stories’ by Ana Núñez Rodríguez at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. This website is a 5-step test, to find out what type of potato you are. Dig dig dig!
This website is part of a series 'made in one day' websites. When I started coding I had to learn the composition of the following website's structures. Now that I can code, I can move them around. With the cursor one can drag and drop the containers and elements of the website and dismantle the template.
This website was made earlier in May, designed by Giulia Bierens de Haan. We both studied at the Rietveld Academie in graphic design, it felt familiar to work together. The website is for Editions Clinamen, a publishing house based in Geneva, Switzerland. The dinosaur crosses the screen forever while clicking, and all the windows are moveable. The first text window when arriving on the website is for expiremental layouts and poems written by Clinamen.
E-shop! For Noon Passama's beautiful pieces of jewellery, designed by Claes Storm. When the user is inactive, a negative shape of the logo slowly fades in to cover the page!
I designed and coded this website for friend and artist Floris Dutoit. The images are piled up on top of one another like a layered cake.
Website designed by Auriane herself. Subtle hoverings and sensitive scrolls!
E-shop : designed by Marie-Mam Sai Bellier for Simon Lextrait's delicate and playful garments.
Collection of all the websites made by the ENSAD students after my workshop 'Building a website like building a house' ("Construire un site web comme construire une maison") I hosted at ENSAD NANCY in November (desktop only).
2021
Visuals
G
For Gobstoppers
Visuals made for the emails and invitations to Gobstopper (G is my favorite letter). Gobstopper is a monthly gathering creating a space to share and give feedbacks about (individual) projects. Takes place in Paris.
2021
Website
Design & web-development
www.clarapasteau.com
Another version of my website. Small subtle changes on refresh : typeface change (Serif or sans-serif or monospace) and the main columns width defers. Breath sounds on refresh or when visiting the image page.
E-shop : coded Lia Séval's beautiful online shop featuring her gleaned jewels / design by Ousseynou Salla.
2021
Signage
Set design
Le Bal des Folles
Together with Quentin Goujout we built this neon signage for his movie ´Le Bal des Folles’ (2022).
Designed with Manon Bachelier and coded with my hands : the French-Moroccan collective Calypso36°21's new platform. The floating words can be selected and associated to search in the website.
Second edition of Clarisa, open from July till September 2021. Created with Melisa Zaimović. If you consult it now the website's colors will saturate.
Clarisa works like an exhibition or a fashion collection that’s been created with care to be presented and available for a certain amount of time.
I made artist Sarah Veith a portfolio website.
Small reference website for the p5.js workshop I taught at Estienne, Paris.
2021
Website
Interface and web-development
www.openday.rietveldacademie.nl
I designed the interface and coded the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Open Day website. The link is not working anymore since the website was online just for a day. It had livestreams and chat rooms to discover more about the Rietveld's education.
Bedside Productions is an ethical porn production based in Copenhagen. I coded their first online platform.
Coded artist Minne Kersten's long scroll portfolio.
First edition, open from September 15th till October 15th 2020. Created with Melisa Zaimović.
Clarisa works like an exhibition or a fashion collection that’s been created with care to be presented and available for a certain amount of time.
Designed AND coded with Maisa Imamović! We made a mini website made for Jess Henderson’s new book "Offline Matters". There is a special tab where you need to go offline (disable your wifi) to access an excerpt of the book.
2020
Website
Design & web-development
www.clarapasteau.com
Simple lines with new content were added at the top of the page when I updated the website. I changed also the colors for each update, depending of what combination I liked, or depending what I wanted to highlight.
Design by Marie-Mam Sai herself. My first backend coded website :'-)
2018
Posters
Design
Dutch Design Week
Poster and proposal for the Dutch Design Week. As recent graduates, we got asked to design a poster for the event following strictly the same template. Humble pictures by myself apart from : - an instagram story by Camille Cornillon, and - the first image, taken by the DDW.
2018
Magazine
Design and content
GRAPHIC #42
Several contributions for the issue of Korea’s GRAPHIC magazine. This was in [2018], the year we graduated - We worked as a whole class on this issue which formulates answers to the question ‘What is education in our department’ (in Rietveld graphic design).
2018
Graduation Project
everything
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Graduation work at the closing of my years at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, including
→ [1] an essay 'I plunged in slo-mo' (nominated for the Selected award), inkjet printed, one colored image printed in riso and silkscreened cover on textured paper
→ [2] an installation called 'A text, a ring binder, and two enlarged pages'
→ [3] and an actual pool. The pool called 'The Lagoon of Waterproof Books', (conception and building with William Eckerstein) contained water, texts, extracts, quotes, notes, that are water-related whether from close or far. Contributions by Manon Bachelier, Orin Bristow, Clara Pasteau, Laslo Strong, selected books from the Rietveld Library.
Pictures by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Peter Putz.
2018
Booklet
Design
Foam Museum
Booklet for the Foam Museam (Amsterdam) for the exhibition of Tereza Zelenkova, A5 offset print with a metallic ink.
2018
Identity
Design
SNDO
SNDO CHOREOGRAPHY GRADUATION SHOW identity, made with Orin Bristow. Played around with a dancing garlic press. Offset print for the posters, inkjet for the booklet.
2016
Typeface
Design
Diorama
Lettering for REVUE DIORAMA’s first issue.