Marthe Khady Nachtman

Thegooddayz - Issue 01 Visual identity and editorial artistic direction for the first issue of @thegooddayzmag . • • • “When I get home” : “To return to oneself. Not to a specific place, but to an inner space a quiet territory we each try to redefine. When I Get Home is the search for that return. This first issue was born from a simple question: what does it mean to “come home” when you belong to multiple worlds at once?” • • • Editor in chief : @aureeloveyou Art director : @julietteclsn Editorial assistant : Eloise Ferina Mpassi Graphic designer : @mkncht Contributing Writers Aurélia Kopou Carl Foarding Kimberley Dos Santos Marie Banimbadio Tusiama Marc Posso Ornella D’Almeida Contributing Photographers Adam ZM Audrey Mballa — Assisted by Bineta Diallo Laurent Segretier Marc Posso Moïse Luzolo N’Goran Kouacou Omar Ali Ryan Malejac Samuel Richard Sarah Sarah Ly Valeria Sarto — Assisted by Paul-Antoine Bernardin Contributing Fashion Editors Jade Delaunay — Assisted by Mahelie Louvès Alpha Cissé Karin Canale Killian Grall — Assisted by Jibril Ben Hadjassi Rudy Gbaba — Assisted by Preston Da Silva Sterling Atik • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattack

For @74pixel & @dinospichichi - NOIR FLUO “Noir fluo” is a book showcasing Agathe Caire’s photography works on the process of @dinospichichi last album “Kintsugi”. The concept of the book is based on the idea of an old artefact that would be found in our timeline. Special thanks to @oumardinho & @spktaqlr Printer : @escourbiaclimprimeur • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattack

Saison Offerte - TU NANTES A Super Poster made during my super internship at @superterrain 💫 • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattacki

Pan African Biennale - unselected option I really wanted to put forward a direction rooted in metal craftsmanship and African artisanat. As I was exploring the notion of Pan-Africanism, I kept coming back to the same question: how do you represent it without placing one culture above another? That’s how I arrived at the concept of the chimera. In mythology, the chimera is a composite creature — several animals fused into a single body. The image felt right: Pan-Africanism is itself a kind of chimera — a multitude of cultures gathered under one concept, with no single one taking precedence. From there, I began a mix-and-match process using different African artefacts — jewellery, furniture, masks, doors, combs or even hair — to compose Pan-African chimeras. The ambition was to create new forms born from grounded cultural objects, but freed from their original function. After working in rough vectorial shapes, I wanted to push these silhouettes into another dimension. I moved into 3D, and the forms started to exist as artefacts in their own right. That brought me back to silversmithing and the working of silver — a craft that holds deep importance across many Pan-African cultures. The chimeras then became massive silver doors, as if they had just been cast. The metal is still melting; the form isn’t frozen — it can still shift and change. The chimeras remain an ongoing personal project that I intend to develop throughout my career. This was one unselected way of using them for this specific brief, but only one of many possible directions.

Shifting the center: from fragility to resilience. It’s hard to put into words what this project means. Designing the poster for the first-ever Pan-African Biennale is more than a design commission — it’s contributing to a moment that carries history, intention, and pride. The artwork is rooted in African textile traditions — woven, printed, dyed practices that have always been a language of their own. I wanted the poster to feel like fabric: layered, tactile, alive. The shifting center became a visual translation of a wider truth — moving from fragility to resilience, from margin to ground. Thank you @liseisaro and @degan_omar for your trust. Textures @stochaster_apps Font selecta by @dani.el.h @maxitype_com Logotype font The neue black @vocaltype.co • • • • • • • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter visualarts printisnotdead sparkarchive saveyourwork neonlimemagazine showusyourtype collectgraphic terracotaprints youaretypography undrdesign itsnicethat sixand5 graphicjuice typematters nicogscollection iconica typesettings abstarctcollage rawartstudio iconographica citysodaclub thedesignblacklist generalelectric swissgrid fkndesign albumartattac

COLLABORATION HIGHLIGHT — Marthe Nachtman Salon de rue: tressage et couché de soleil, œuvre digital, 2024 En 2024, j’ai contacté la graphiste Marthe Nachtman pour créer l’affiche de NOIRES, que je présentais à la Fondation H. J’avais découvert son travail à travers le livre CORPS NOIRS de Christelle Bakima Poundza @chrisavantdani dont elle avait assuré la direction artistique. Son approche du design m’avait immédiatement parlé. Notre collaboration est née d’un mix de nos propres images, photographies, dessins, vidéos, et d’une envie commune de travailler en superpositions, un principe central dans ma pratique artistique. Nous avons imaginé cette affiche sous la forme d’un assemblage de quatre A3 formant un A1. Chacun de ces fragments annonçait l’une des quatre sessions de modèles vivants qui allaient se dérouler dans la Salle de Bain de NOIRES. À chaque nouvelle session, j’allais coller l’affiche correspondante sur la vitrine de la Fondation H, permettant au fil du temps de révéler progressivement l’affiche complète de NOIRES: un dévoilement en quatre temps. Cette affiche s’est transformée en papier peint habillant l’intérieur comme l’extérieur de l’architecture de la maison-installation. Depuis, elle accompagne mon travail : dans mon atelier du 19e arrondissement, lors de la présentation du Grand Salon de NOIRES à MansA, puis celle de la Terrasse et de la Salle à Manger de NOIRES à la 193 Gallery. Bien avant cette collaboration, l’affiche occupait déjà une place importante dans ma pratique. Le graphic design, ses codes visuels et sa capacité à guider le regard dans l’espace public ont toujours nourri ma réflexion. Avec NOIRES, je voulais précisément utiliser ces codes, ceux de l’affichage urbain, du poster de rue, du signal visuel, pour construire une identité immédiatement reconnaissable. Voir cette affiche, c’est être renvoyé au lieu NOIRES, à son atmosphère, à sa chaleur. De cette manière, l’affiche devient un marqueur qui attire, invite, oriente, et que l’on retrouve aussi bien dans l’intimité de la maison que sur sa façade, créant une continuité visuelle entre dedans et dehors, entre l’œuvre et le public. 📷 @studio_vanssay

RWU TRACKSUIT - 🐍🐍🐍🐍 Custom logo pour les triple S @sssound___ • • • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattack

Artistic direction for @review_0001 • REVIEW is a magazine founded by @finr_ in New York. “REVIEW offers a chorus of voices, each contributing to an ever-evolving discourse of our places in our world. In the end, to review is to see anew — to look again, to reconsider, to reimagine. It is an act of renewal. Don’t just look at art; question how and why we look at all. To review is perilous, to emerge from the rubble of wisdom. It is to stand at the precipice of understanding, to fail between revelation and certainty.” • Featuring work by : @finr_ , Sarita Costa Vargas @pocketstickynotes , Kate Alexandra, Deyi Alyce Wang @deyialycewang , Sam Blacklund-Clapp , Gabriel Cautain @gabrielcautain , Lu Rose Cunningham @lurosecunningham , Nicholas D’Alessandro , Valentin Degnieau @val.dgn , Daisy Fisher, Uma Halsted, Far Luego, Kamalishe Iraldo @kamalishe , Fran Hayes @_frangry_ , Yuliia Kazhuk and Anna Russu-Diskultsu , Mathijs Hunfeld, Jessica Lee, Suah Lim, Nolan Kelly, Sofia Hallström @sofia_hallstrom_ , Pip Hudd , Maya Silverberg @maya.silverberg , Sabrina Roman , Nica Moura, Hannah Wikforss-Green, Seph Rodney, Claire Perilhou @mifigue______miraisin , Annabelle Parrish @anubelstu , Paul Mesnager @paulmesnager , Marcin Kaminski @teskniewiesiu , Nicolas Biscaro @nicolabiscaro , Massimiliano Rossetto @massin , Victoria Gumienna @isol.0e and Boris Groys • Font : OT Neue Montreal Extra Squeezed @pangram.pangram • • • • • • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattack

Un deuxième épisode sur GM autour de la thématique de l’après école avec Marthe Nachtman @mkncht dont les débuts dans la vie pro sont riches en projets, idées, envies et réflexions! Merci Marthe 🫶 Type in use : Sinistre dessiné par @lazy_dog.ttf

Something in between a shell and a flower • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattack

Elle brille dans le noir ⭐️ Some spread from the book I’ve made last year for @bbiayenda ’s master thesis. Artwork credits : Maty Biayenda @bbiayenda Pictures credits : Léa Ceheivi @ceheivi • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • #swissgrit #graphicvault #designblacklist #helveticaposter #visualarts #printisnotdead #sparkarchive #saveyourwork #neonlimemagazine #showusyourtype #collectgraphic #terracotaprints #youaretypography #undrdesign #itsnicethat #sixand5 #graphicjuice #typematters #nicogscollection #iconica #typesettings #abstarctcollage #rawartstudio #iconographica #citysodaclub #thedesignblacklist #generalelectric #swissgrid #fkndesign #albumartattack

NOIRES - FONDATION H Les affiches de l’exposition NOIRES sont en vente à la Fondation H! Issues de la collaboration entre @mkncht et @mbanga.mbanga.mbanga , ces affiches au format A3 sont disponibles à l’unité à la fondation jusqu’au 23 mai ❤️