ART DIRECTOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER JULES COUARTOU HAS BEEN PASSIONATE ABOUT AUTOMOBILE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE EVER SINCE HE WAS A CHILD. HE GRADUATED IN GRAPHIC DESIGN AND COMMUNICATION IN 2007, AND THEN SPECIALISED IN EDITION AND PRINT: WORKING FOR TECHNIKART MAGAZINE, GRAPHIC DESIGN AGENCIES AND BRANDS LIKE DIOR PARFUMS, RAD HOURANI, AMI PARIS. FROM 2017 TO 2020, HE WAS IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE DESIGN OF MILK DÉCORATION MAGAZINE.
ALONGSIDE HIS EXPERTISE IN EDITION, HE DEVELOPED A POST-PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE AND NOW WORKS AS CREATIVE POST-PRODUCER WITHIN DIVISION: ENSURING THE VISUAL INTEGRITY OF THE CREATIVE VISION, THROUGH RETOUCHING GUIDANCE AND POST-PRODUCTION COORDINATION FOR PRINT AND FILMS.
THROUGH HIS PERSONAL ARTISTIC WORK, HE DEVELOPED AN ICONOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE THAT LED HIM TO COLLABORATE WITH CRUSH FANZINE AND WAD. IN 2011 HE LAUNCHES THE KINGDOM VISIONS PLATFORM, WHERE HE KEEPS DOCUMENTING AESTHETICS THAT INSPIRE HIM AND HIS PERSONAL ART WORK: DETAILS FROM STRIKINGLY ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES, MECHANICAL ORGANISMS, RESEARCH ON MOVEMENT OR MASCULINITY.