Laurent Durieux

Working as an independent designer since 1994, Laurent Durieux was noticed in 2011 with his poster François à l'Américaine, created on the occasion of an exhibition commemorating the work of director Jacques Tati, which allowed him to be contacted by several publishers and American galleries including the Mondo gallery or even Plakat based in Paris for which he has been making alternative film posters.

Though he's spent two decades as a designer and teacher, the 42-year-old Brussels illustrator and graphic artist was only recently discovered in the United States, thanks to a number of high-profile awards and marquee commissions, including a 2013 screenprint of “Jaws", which caught the eye of the film's director, Steven Spielberg. 

The climb from relative obscurity began, though, in 2011, when Durieux was named one of the world's 200 Best Illustrators by the influential international advertising magazine Lürzer's Archive.

His work is appreciated by American directors, notably Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, and Paul Thomas Anderson.