:::: DISCOVER ALL THE PRODUCTS :::: ......................................... NEWS ......................................... ACCESSORIES Sticky Tray Soft Tile Planet Trivet Planet Clock ......................................... LIGHTS |- Minimess Lamp |- Belly lite |- Web Lamp |- Wired Lamps ......................................... TEXTURE BANK TEXTURE BANK 2 TEXTURE BANK 3 |- Mini Mess |- Big Bang patern |- Brittle patern |- Web Cloth |- Flat Drops |- Curled Threads patern |- Crossed Threads patern |- Chopped Cans |- Crossed lines |- Curled lines |- Big Bang Texture |- Crystal |- Grass |- Mesh |- Pennies |- River Stones |- Waves |- Crossed Branches |- Big Drop |- Small Drops |- Kiwi Slice |- 50/50 |- Path Red |- Short Cuts |- Shield Texture ......................................... FURNITURE |- Leaning Shelve |- Rain Stool |- 3 Gracs Stand |- Reneu |- Perched Iris |- Footie |- i.seat ......................................... ART ON WALL |- Straight Forward |- Art On Wall |- Green Planet |- Branche |- Wonky |- Soft Gem ......................................... SPECIAL PROJECTS |- Drop hook |- Vase mou |- Big bang Clock |- Towel Rack |- Postal Card |- Coffee table |- Reversible coffee table |- Vowels on glass |- Book on its stand |- Metal Trophy |- Glass Trophy |- Partition wall |- Display lamp |- Edison lamp |- lamp with stone |- Zig zag lamp |- Red ball lamp |- Snake lamp |- Key chain |- Blazon |- Frise + pictogrammes ......................................... SPECIAL PROJECTS II |- Housing estate sign |- Housing estate sign II |- Building sign |- Business street sign |- Building sign II ......................................... PUSH BIJOUX ......................................... BIOGRAPHY ......................................... CONTACT .........................................

PERSONAL HISTORY

I grew up working on my parents' farm near Dijon, in the middle of France. When I was 17, I started working in building construction. Through these two experiences, I learned how to make and repair things and to organize space efficiently. It was during this time that I discovered my interest in visual art.

I decided to go to art school in Toulouse in the south of France to further understand two-dimensional form and to refine my artistic style. During five years of formal fine arts education, I focused on all related techniques for producing images (especially drawing and painting) as well as art history, theory and general culture. An insatiable curiosity pushed me to observe as many things as possible. I also started training in martial arts, another infinite artform involving movement and the controlling of space.

After school, I continued to explore the limitless possibilities of the visual arts. I lived in Strasbourg (in the east of France) for nine years and worked professionally in sculpture, graphic design, museography, scenography, calligraphy, object design and assisting artists, among other things.

With full freedom, means and materials with which to experiment, I linked together objects with pictures, ideas with techniques and art with design. At this time, I also moved from martial arts to the freest of all dance forms – contact improvisation – that enabled me to become more flexible and connected in my relationships to space, people and objects. These concurrent experiences have consequently heavily influenced my choices of materials and subjects for my art and design production.

In 1999, I moved to New York to assist a renowned Italian designer/architect and help him to experiment with new materials and develop prototypes. After 2 years, I left this position to work with other design companies and artists and, once again, pursue my own art and design projects.

Since them I have produced a wide body of work in fine art (see www.fabricecovelli.com), design, and texture design (see www.fproduct.net) that reflect the culmination of all my skills, creativity and knowledge of artistic materials and designing techniques.

Examples of the applications of my texture designs have been published in Material libraries around the world and specialized magazines, which include:

Multiple applications in decorative materials and representation in Material Libraries around the world helped me to attract international publications in books and specialized magazines, which include:

Material Libraries:
Material Connexion in New York, Cologne, Bangkok and Milan
Material Explorer in Holland
SCIN in London
Tsinghua University in Beijing
Delft University in Holland

Books:
Ultra Materials (by Material Connexion 2008)
Transmaterial 2 (by Blaine Brownell 2008)
Material Trend book 2008 (By German Design Council)

Magazines:
Interior Design (April 08 - US)
Grand Design (April 08 - UK)
Diseno Interior (January 08 - Spain)
Pasajes Construccion (September 07 - Spain)
FX Magazine (July 07 - UK)
Oficinas (June 07 - Spain)
Element Of Living (June 06 - US)

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PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

2001-2007 // FREE LANCE SCULPTOR / DESIGNER - NEW YORK
• Launching of Fproduct, (furniture, object and industrial design studio) www.fproduct.net
• Technical development, research and design for several furniture design/props companies and for artists
• Development of personnal projects in visual arts (sculpture, painting, installation) - www.fabricecovelli.com

1999-2001 // PESCE STUDIO - PRODUCT DESIGN - NEW YORK
Assistant of Gaetano Pesce ; - development of prototypes, uniques pieces - Research and experimentation of new materials and techniques

1992-1999 // FREE LANCE SCULPTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGNER - STRASBOURG / FRANCE

Object's design
1995-1999
Creation of furnitures and lamps (mixed media)

Graphic design
1997-1999
Art direction of trinational school handbook for Council of Europe

1992-1999
Visual identity and sign for different types of companies Calligraphy for advertising agencies Typographic creations

1998-1999
Electropolis Museum, Mulhouse, France
Design and artwork of traveling exhibitions Collaboration with few architects for museum: - Graphic design and visual identity - Models, signal system, showing furnitures, graphic and relief cartography

Sculpture
1992-1999
Use of many materials and techniques from mold to cast with any materials, carving in stone and wood, lettering, fusing glass, trophy, modeling, paperwork, woodwork Research and experimentation of new materials and technics

1996
Project of monumental sculpture using new technologies
(3D morphing, rapid prototyping, stereolithography)

Wall painting
1992–1999
Several wall painting in public and private places

1991-1992
ANTOINE GRAFF STUDIO, STRASBOURG, FRANCE
Realization of limited editions of bas-reliefs in resins and polymers, engraving and silk-screen for the French artists Armand, César, Sosno, Villeglé.

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EDUCATION

1992
Fine Art School, Strasbourg
Specialization in graphic design and calligraphy

1990-1991
Fine Art School, Exeter, England
Specialization in sculpture and lithographic printing

1985-1990
Fine Art School, Toulouse, France
Diplome National Supérieur d’Enseignement Plastique (DNSEP ) sculpture and painting (equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts)

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