I’m an Art Director and Visual Strategist shaping visual systems across editorial, cultural, and experiential contexts. My work sits at the intersection of structure and expression — crafting visual narratives that are articulate, intentional, and built to evolve. From campaigns to spatial design, from type experiments to editorial frameworks, I create design languages that don’t decorate — they activate. I collaborate with players in the cultural, editorial, academic and AI-driven innovation sectors — translating values into visual coherence, and vision into tangible form. I believe design has the power to clarify, connect, and care — shaping new imaginaries, challenging norms, and giving form to what matters. I co-founded Studio Mirage and I’m currently launching Studio Colossal — creative platforms dedicated to design as a strategic, cultural and civic tool. Based between Marseille, Rome and Paris. Open to bold missions and meaningful encounters.

Clio Chaffardon

I’m an Art Director and Visual Strategist shaping visual systems across editorial, cultural, and experiential contexts. My work sits at the intersection of structure and expression — crafting visual narratives that are articulate, intentional, and built to evolve. From campaigns to spatial design, from type experiments to editorial frameworks, I create design languages that don’t decorate — they activate. I collaborate with players in the cultural, editorial, academic and AI-driven innovation sectors — translating values into visual coherence, and vision into tangible form. I believe design has the power to clarify, connect, and care — shaping new imaginaries, challenging norms, and giving form to what matters. I co-founded Studio Mirage and I’m currently launching Studio Colossal — creative platforms dedicated to design as a strategic, cultural and civic tool. Based between Marseille, Rome and Paris. Open to bold missions and meaningful encounters.

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I’m an Art Director and Visual Strategist shaping visual systems across editorial, cultural, and experiential contexts.

My work sits at the intersection of structure and expression — crafting visual narratives that are articulate, intentional, and built to evolve. From campaigns to spatial design, from type experiments to editorial frameworks, I create design languages that don’t decorate — they activate.

I collaborate with players in the cultural, editorial, academic and AI-driven innovation sectors — translating values into visual coherence, and vision into tangible form.

I believe design has the power to clarify, connect, and care — shaping new imaginaries, challenging norms, and giving form to what matters.

I co-founded Studio Mirage and I’m currently launching Studio Colossal — creative platforms dedicated to design as a strategic, cultural and civic tool.

Based between Marseille, Rome and Paris. Open to bold missions and meaningful encounters.

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Work Experience

Professeur de Direction Artistique M2 pour les PFE at ECV, Aix-en-Provence
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Teaching and supervising master-level final projects in art direction.
Professeur de Direction Artistique M1 ALT pour les Mémoire at ECV, Aix-en-Provence
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2025
Lectures and guidance on art direction for masters.
Professeur de Direction Creative Niveau Master at NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2022
Professeur de Lettering & Direction Artistica Niveau Master at QUASAR – Institute for Advanced Design, Rome
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
Professeur de Lettering & Typographie Expérimentale Niveau Master at Università La Sapienza, Rome
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020
Co-fondatrice, Art Direction at Studio Mirage
January 1, 2017 - Present
Direction Artistique at 19 Novanta, Rome
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Direction Artistique at Marimo, Rome
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Co-fondatrice, Art Direction at KOMODOR CLUB, Amiens
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Co-fondatrice, Direction Artistique Studio B — C. Graphic Design at Amiens
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2016
Professeur d’Arts Appliqués, BTS Graphic Design et Design Produit at Lycée Branly, Amiens
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2016
Co-fondatrice, Art Direction Maison Nº1311 at Maison Nº1311 (Risograph publishing)
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2011
Designer Graphique at Slang, Berlin
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2009
Designer Graphique at Anschlaege, Berlin
January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2008

Education

DNSEP (+5) Graphic Design at ÉSAD Amiens
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2010
DNAP Graphic Design at ÉSAD Amiens
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2008
Prépa PRÉP’ART at Paris
January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2005
Licence LEA Anglais, Espagnol et Japonais at Université Lyon 3
January 1, 2003 - January 1, 2004
BAC Économique et Social at Moûtiers
January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2003

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services, Software & Internet, Other
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