Hartland Villa is the graphic design studio led by Lionel Avignon and Stefan de Vivies.
Based in Paris & Bruxelles, we take care of pictures, graphic identity, publishing and signage. 
Our approach to design marries visual flair with conceptual and typographical rigour.


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Friday, April 25, 2025

Cannes International Film Festival 2025

 

A man.
A woman.
A deserted beach.
A turbulent sky.
Intoxicating music.
A 3-month-old idea.
A 3-week shoot.
A 20-second scene.
Eternity lasts but a moment in the end.

It was 60 years ago. In 1965, two damaged beings played by Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant met, charmed each other, resisted, and finally twirled under Claude Lelouch's incandescent camera. The Palme d'or in Cannes in 1966, the two Oscars in Hollywood in 1967 and the dozens of awards around the world pale in comparison to this grandiose moment of tenderness, simplicity and beauty.
Because it is undoubtedly the 7th Art’s most famous embrace ("étreinte" in French, the anagram of "éternité"), because you can't separate a man and a woman who love each other, because you can't separate that Man from that Woman, the Festival de Cannes has chosen for the first time in its history to present a double official poster. A Man and a Woman. Side by side. Back together.

— He: When something’s not serious, we says it’s like a film. Why aren’t films taken seriously, do you think?
— She: Maybe because we only go to the cinema when all is going well? 
— He: So you think we should go when all is going wrong? 
— She: Why not? 
During times that seem to want to separate, compartmentalize or subjugate, the Festival de Cannes wants to (re)unite; to bring bodies, hearts and souls closer together; to encourage freedom and portray movement in order to perpetuate it; to embody the whirlwind of life to celebrate it, again and again.

This man and this woman who both won awards in Cannes —Best Actor (Z, 1969), Best Actress (A Leap in the Dark (Salto nel vuoto), 1980)— are no more. These two posters also pay homage. Magnificent heroes of delicacy and seduction, Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant forever illuminate the film of our lives, like these two posters, whose colors express the intensity of a passionate love that triumphs over despair. This light no longer comes from the heavens, today troubled on all sides by dark clouds; it emerges from the radiant fusion of two beings who reconcile us with life.

 

 

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Uniques graphic identity creations by Hartland Villa

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Gallica's BNF Website new graphic design

Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France. It offers several million documents that can be consulted and downloaded for free: books, manuscripts, maps and plans, prints, photographs, posters... We were called upon to redesign the image and rethink the ergonomics of its home page.

 

 

 

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Jazz à la Villette 2024

15th edition of graphic design complicity for Hartland Villa with the Jazz à la Villette festival on the stages of the Philharmonie de Paris and the Cité de la Musique from Thursday August 29 to Sunday September 8. On the menu ? Brad Mehldau, Delgres, Mahalia, Alice Russell, Kenny Garrett, Tinariwen or even the project The Strangers (General Elektriks, Leeroy, Lateef the Truthspeaker) without forgetting Omar, Curtis Harding, Knower...

Previous posters on  jazz a la villette 

 
Friday, July 19, 2024

Pompidou Olympique !

Visuals created for POP the Pompidou Center subscription program

Watch our creations for Pop at Centre Pompidou

Friday, July 19, 2024

58e festival de la Chaise-Dieu

The Festival remains true to its identity by offering a program of excellence, welcoming the greatest artists and the most beautiful symphonic groups of the moment, while welcoming promising young artists. 33 paid concerts and 39 free events from August 21 to 31, 2024 in Loire, Puy-de-Dôme and Haute-Loire.

Watch all our creations for Festival de la Chaise-Dieu

 

Friday, July 12, 2024

Ian Williams
Original soundtrack “Le Mystère Lucie”

Sunday, June 30, 2024

The RosaLab Odyssey

June 4 & 11: two participatory workshops took place: with the children of the Rosa Parks social and cultural center
During the first workshop, everyone draws their fish in 3 parts: A head • A body • A tail
The fish are then simplified and treated in 3 colors

The second workshop took the form of the exquisite corpse game where everyone draws a part of the fish's body, then hides it and passes it to their neighbor...

From this work several decorations are envisaged 

June 18: The sail is painted live at RosaLab
While the artists paint, the participants draw on the collective fresco using stencils made following the 2 workshops.

June 22 & 23: Ultimately the sail equips the boat for the PRAM regatta on the Ourcq canal in Pantin.

 

Monday, June 10, 2024

Days Off summer festival at the Philharmonie de Paris !

Watch our work for the festival in 2023 & 2024 and previous editions from 2010 to 2015
 

 

 

 

Friday, May 10, 2024

77th Cannes film festival

For the fourth consecutive year we have the pleasure of signing the poster for the international film festival

Previous editions on cannes film festival

 

On visionne des centaines d’images.

Qui résonnent dans l’histoire du cinéma, et du Festival de Cannes.

Soudain, une image nous interpelle. 

Photogramme de Rhapsodie en août d’Akira Kurosawa.

Un film qui parle de l’après, après Nagazaki.

Un film qui parle de fraternité familiale. 

Il y a quelque chose avec cette famille.

Spectateurs contemplatifs.

La lune, le banc, le paysage, la nuit…

Métaphore de la salle obscure. 

Nuit onirique, nuit romantique.

De Meliès à Fellini de Miyazaki à Spielberg. 

Alors Cannes 2024 ce sera cette image.

Mais l’image est très sombre.

On éclaircit, on invente, on repeint le paysage, on élargit le plan. 

On transforme les couleurs, on leur donne une nouvelle densité.

La palme du festival  remplace la lune.

On a touché l’image du maître, en lui donnant une nouvelle poésie.

Pour que tous puissent se l’approprier.


 

 

la quatrième année consécutive nous signons l’affiche du festival

 

 

On visionne des centaines d’images.

Qui résonnent dans l’histoire du cinéma, et du Festival de Cannes.

Soudain, une image nous interpelle. 

Photogramme de Rhapsodie en août d’Akira Kurosawa.

Un film qui parle de l’après, après Nagazaki.

Un film qui parle de fraternité familiale. 

Il y a quelque chose avec cette famille.

Spectateurs contemplatifs.

La lune, le banc, le paysage, la nuit…

Métaphore de la salle obscure. 

Nuit onirique, nuit romantique.

De Meliès à Fellini de Miyazaki à Spielberg. 

Alors Cannes 2024 ce sera cette image.

Mais l’image est très sombre.

On éclaircit, on invente, on repeint le paysage, on élargit le plan. 

On transforme les couleurs, on leur donne une nouvelle densité.

La palme du festival  remplace la lune.

On a touché l’image du maître, en lui donnant une nouvelle poésie.

Pour que tous puissent se l’approprier.


 

 

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Europa Cinemas graphic identity

 

 

 

 

Monday, February 26, 2024

Millenium Documentary Film Festival
Brussel

Monday, February 19, 2024

Anima Festival Brussel

The Brussels International Animation Film Festival

The next edition of Anima will take place in Flagey and Marni (Brussels) and in about ten other locations in Belgium from February 28 to March 9, 2025

Friday, February 9, 2024

International Documentary Film Festival - Cinéma du réel 2024

 

 

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Pop 2024
Nouveaux visuels pour le Centre Pompidou

The Center Pompidou subscription program

 

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