He has been practicing design as a freelance and in-house designer since 1994. In Paris, he worked for the Bibliothèque nationale de France as a graphic designer, and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle as an art director and project manager. He holds a graduate degree in Visual Communication and a postgraduate degree in Press Publishing from l'École nationale supérieure des Arts décoratifs (ENSAD, Paris) where he learned from professors such as Rudi Meyer, Philippe Apeloig, Pierre Bernard and Jean Widmer. As a professor, he taught in France (Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design, Reims) and in the U.S. (Oregon State University, Corvallis). His design practice covers different facets of communication design: art direction, corporate identity systems, signage systems, exhibition design, book design, magazine design, information design, packaging and electronic publishing.