About Alain Bourdon
Alain Bourdon is a french graphic designer, obsessed with waves, their shapes, and all of what they belong to. For this, with the Minimalist Wave project, he attempts to depict the lighter side of an extraordinary phenomenon that continually evolves and is never the same. He creates hand drawing minimal sketches showing fluid forms resembling a wave, a surfer in the middle of the ocean, a surfboard next to the water, and so on. Alain wants to capture every possible detail mainly by observing and staring at a landscape he genuinely feels belonging to.
He is also the owner of Alain Bourdon Graphic Design Studio and being used to hectic everyday rhythms, Alain drawings are an intimate moment to feel focused while letting everything flow around.
The Minimalist Wave
The Minimalist Wave started by chance. One day Alain was on the phone with a client and started drawing random waves on a sheet of paper. Since he felt happy with the visual result, he started filling a whole notebook of similar sketches. Later, a friend saw the drawings and motivated him to go further with them.
Using a black and white palette strictly comes from a radical and minimal style option. What moves Alain is to say a little, with just a bit of stimulus in a world filled with inputs and visual contamination.
Feeling part of nature with no entitlement is the essence in his drawings. To Alain, cities and buildings are human-centered. On the other side, nature is a separate identity, and we must learn to observe and live with it.
So as for surfing the ocean or climbing a tree may bring one closer to nature, drawing it is an attempt to do so.
Visit The Minimalist Wave website here.
