A True Polymath
Visual identity and website design for Beau Travail. In French, “Beau Travail” means both “Excellent work!” and, ironically, “What a mess!”—a fitting blend of high-quality craftsmanship and humor. To capture this spirit, we asked founder Fabien Petiot to write the alphabet along with arrows and lines, which we transformed into a custom typeface. A true polymath, Fabien combines craftsmanship, design, art, and writing to create colorful, poetic objects. Through Beau Travail, he explores his craft across diverse media, from objects and lighting to art books and prints. The website is Fabien’s creative playground, inviting you to explore, connect, and shop. Inspired by his serigraph series “Main dans la main” (“Together”), we incorporated his hand-shaped screen prints as background patterns, recolored in Beau Travail’s signature hues.
WHAT WE DID
Visual identity, Typography, Custom typeface, Branding, Print
CREDITS
Client: Fabien Petiot for BEAU TRAVAIL
“Founding Studio Beau Travail was a very exciting challenge for me, and I wanted a very personal website and visual identity to reflect what was behind it: the different hats on my head divided between design and content, my taste for colors, patterns and handmade, the importance of the manufacturing process, but also the company itself that distributes my products.
The incredible creativity and the attentive listening of Studio& allowed me to realize what looks more like a portrait than a simple website.”
Fabien Petiot, founder Beau Travail