The “Interview with a Compeer” Series

▶️ In these videos or podcasts, I share my expertise in Storytelling, Art Direction, Narrative design, Foresight or Esotericism and I demonstrate how these, apparently, unlinked disciplines can actually be used to infuse Creativity and Analysis in many -if not all- professional activities.

Whether through Conferences or Interviews, I always reply to my interlocutor(s) with the same motto which guided all my life : Everything is Stories.

The Context

🎙️ François Lamé is a Marketing Consultant, expert in storytelling and narrative, cognitive, and behavioral strategies.

He created the podcast “Desfragmentations” where he welcomes guests who share his passion: Storytelling and how they integrate it into their personal or professional activities.

He asked me to inaugurate this podcast as his first guest:

As an Art Director, Illustrator, Author, Ludographer, Typographer, and Visual Storyteller, I use Storytelling in my work as both a goal and a means to convey Content through Form .

In Episode 1 of this Podcast, François invites me to introduce myself through the lens of Storytelling. In Episodes 2 and 3, we address two specific questions I pose to him…

The Episode

The Alchemical Vision as a Modern Creative Tool

François Lamé asks me about my background and my work. I share with him the anecdotes, motivations, and processes that led me to become a Visual Storyteller.

Through the interview, I tell him how I came to consider the ancient discipline of Alchemy as a working method that can be applied to all areas of life…

Audio Language

🇫🇷 French

Subtitles Languages available

🇫🇷 French (Quality)
🇫🇷 French (automatic subtitles)
🇸🇦 Arabic
🇨🇳 Chinese
🇬🇧 English
🇩🇪 German
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇰🇷 Korean
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇷🇺 Russian
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇹🇷 Turkish

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The Video

The Context

▶️ In March 2023, the Master Management of Technology and Innovation (MTI) in Paris invited me as a speaker for their yearly conference…

The Master MTI is a degree of the University Dauphine / PSL of Paris, the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the INSTN…

The Theme of that year was : « Nostalgia ».

Four Experts in different fields were invited, each being located at four different places across the « Map of Nostalgia »…

Each of us had to respond to the inquiries of a young seeker, named Céka, who was travelling across that Map, searching for answers.

As a Design expert specialized in Foresight, I answered her questions…

Subtitles Languages available

🇫🇷 French (Quality)
🇫🇷 French (automatic subtitles)
🇸🇦 Arab
🇧🇩 Bengali
🇨🇳 Chinese
🇬🇧 English
🇩🇪 German
🇮🇳 Hindi
🇯🇵 Japanese
🇰🇷 Korean
🇮🇷 Persian
🇵🇹 Portuguese
🇮🇳 🇵🇰 Punjabi
🇷🇺 Russian
🇪🇸 Spanish
🇹🇷 Turkish

The Event

The event revolved around four major questions linked to the concept of Nostalgia, concerning a specific field of expertise. Four specialized experts intervened during the event, each in their field of expertise.

The scenography of the event symbolized a form of  “Initiatory Journey” or “Rite of Passage”  of the seeker – “Céka” – who met, in turn, each of these experts and dialogued with them in a “metaphorical place” on the “Map of Nostalgia”. Each place symbolizing both her questioning and the field of expertise concerned.

At the end of each interview, Eduardo – the Ringmaster – gave a fragment of parchment to Céka, allowing her to continue her quest ; ultimately allowing her to resolve all of her questions concerning Nostalgia.

The Experts and the Locations on the Map

In order of appearance and by symbolic location on the map:

The Cabinet: Paola Scemama-Ittah (Neuropsychologist) answered on the psychological and neuropsychiatric origins and influences of Nostalgia over the mind.

The Factory: Alexandra Vignolles (Marketing Specialist) answered on the influences of Nostalgia over branding and marketing innovations.

The Studio: Emma Bonneaud (Musician) answered on the influences of Nostalgia on Art and Music.

The Lair: It is in this fourth part that I intervened via video -posing as an “Artificial Intelligence Entity”- as a Design Expert, specialized in foresight and warning, over three main questions:

1–What is your vision of Nostalgia correlated to your field of expertise?

2– Why use the Past to build the Future as they seem contradictory?

3– How can we build a desirable Future through Foresight and Warning? What are the desirable issues for our civilization?

The entire Event with the Four Speakers can be accessed here : “MTI experience | Nostalgia: the quest for innovation” or watch directly the video below:

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled :

“Which Country has the most Influence in the World?”

Between 1945 and 2024 the alliances and counter-alliances have changed exponentially, disassembling and reassembling through increasingly globalized geopolitical events. Wars, pandemics, ecological, economic and systemic crises are all parameters capable of favoring or disfavoring the affinity that such or such country may have with another one…

But, over time, have the countries perceived traditionnally to be the most influential remained as such? And what about new states, new inter-state structures or new policies that enter into the global game? Which state has really the most influence in the world? When did things change? This timeline holds many surprises…

The Design

The world is nothing more than a gigantic chess game where each state seeks to become the King of the Chessboard. To achieve this, they grow… they amass influence and power across the world to be able to initiate the final move which will put their opponents in checkmate.

The most influential kings advance, clad in the colors of their flags: China, Iran, Russia and the USA… undoubtedly followed by a long line of kinglets, seeking as well to advance to the front of the stage.

But it is no longer a game that is played only by two, nor by four, nor by twenty protagonists… what will be the rules of this new game of chess when everyone is trying to become the only king?

The only other piece left which is not a king is the small Pawn symbolizing the Earth, which now seems far too small and far too expendable for all these new kings…

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Description of the method appraising the effective influence of all the worldwide actors.

🔻 Evolution of multilateral international influence from 1945 to 2024 through 10 detailed screenshots visualizing the dynamic links of influence between each state and systemic structures which appear over the course of History.

🔻 Dynamic animated chronology video of the aforementioned links visualization.

🔻 Extensive analysis of the rise and demise of the international influence of the main state actors from 1945 to 2024.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled :

“The war in Gaza and China’s pivot to the Middle East”

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an unprecedented assault, both in substance and in form, on Israel. Since then, the international ramifications of this shock wave have continued to grow across all countries of the world. A geopolitical change is taking place at full speed in the Middle East and this is making the global situation even more uncertain than before…

But are all the actors involved in this crisis so perfectly identifiable? What new alliances and counter-alliances can arise from this crisis? Who do we see and who do we not see? What unsuspected influence will arise from this dramatic past to forge a future that no one can expect?

If Africa can become Russian, then can the Middle East become Chinese?

The Design

Beyond the dome of the Mosque, the sky is covered with the clouds of the conflict which rumbles in the distance and grows louder and louder: War ignites the heart of the Middle East in a thunder of destruction which fractures the Biblical Land. An atmosphere of Apocalypse where two gods who hate each other wage battle through their respective peoples.

The glowing flames of blood and death make the Star and the Crescent sparkle in a contrast of Yellow and Black: is it Gold marking a Muslim identity which will emerge strengthened through this conflict? Or is it the legacy of the colors of Daesh and Hezbollah marking an even more radical extent of the conflict of civilizations?

The glow of the flames now invades the entire sky where no God responds. And the only celestial manifestation that occurs is the twinkling of the stars of the Chinese Empire which is approaching. Slowly. Discreetly. Totally.

Forming with the Muslim Star the Fifth Star of the Chinese flag, this new starry sky questions us about the future: in a digital and instantaneous world which is a new territory of geopolitics in itself, will this new Middle East be the new frontier of the Middle Kingdom?

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Summary of the origins of the new Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

🔻 Description of the unprecedented media impacts of the October 7 event through the notion of “Hyper-Object”.

🔻 Synthesis of the geopolitical and geostrategic consequences and positioning of all the main actors.

🔻 Presentation of China’s economic and diplomatic actions and their direct and indirect consequences in the short, medium and long term with regard to this conflict.

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society about the article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled :

“Is the West Losing the Warming Arctic?”

It relates to the strategic struggle of the leading nations (China 🇨🇳, Europe 🇪🇺, Russia 🇷🇺, USA 🇺🇸) for the arctic in a global warming context.

The Design

?️‍?️ Choice of the Art Direction : The little turtles of Europe and USA are loitering around slowly, not really figuring where to go, within an ice underwater universe which eventually changes to water.

On the background, almost being part of this aquatic universe, the massive orcas of China and Russia are approaching dangerously, already dominating this new ecosystem.

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Arctic warming put in perspective and which strategic opportunities that new status is offering.

🔻 Analysis of the different means deployed by the different nations to ensure their supremacy in the polar zone.

🔻 Analysis of the choices decided by the various partakers and why the West seems to lose the advantage.

🔻 Sourced analysis. No opinions. No fake news.

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The Context

⭕ This is the new design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society about the article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled :

“China, with or against Russia?”

In the current extremely tense context in Ukraine 🇺🇦, which polarizes civilizations a little more and radicalizes a little more the hegemonic issues of the great empires, does everything seem as simple as it seems?

Through official communications on both sides, are the objectives and actors at work really those we believe?

Listen this Article

Listen to the synthesis of this publication and what Alex Karlson and Iris Devocca from “Creative Compass” have to say about it! You may either listen directly this epidode below or access it through Spotify.

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The Design

The Chinese Dragon soars in the middle of a triple Russian horizon. It is adorned with the same colors as the Universe that surrounds him in an inverted gradient, forming a complex and complementary relationship, like an international YinYang …

The Dragon’s mouth is Red , but is he blushing with pleasure or anger? Is it a relationship of Seduction or Defiance?

The Body is Blue like Sovereignty, like the People. Is it the Blue of Heaven or the Blue of Asphyxiation?

The Tail is White like the Monarchy, like the Heavenly Clouds. Is it the White of Purity or the void of Coldness?


One Continent . Two millennial empires.

Two countries that have both experienced Monarchies and Revolutions . Legendary Emperors and historic Politicians . The middleage and the industrial age. Communism and Capitalism.

Is this the advent of a new Empire throughout two countries? Or an unsuspected rivalry? Enemy brothers or true friends?

Does this visual announce the flag of a new Empire? Or the emblem of a new conflict?

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Initial clues of China’s position towards Russia 🇷🇺 on the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 conflict.

🔻 First analysis of Chinese 🇨🇳 initial declarations.

🔻 Conclusion and reflection on China’s political and diplomatic positioning towards Russia and the USA 🇺🇸.

🔻 Sourced analysis. No opinions. No fake news.

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