who

The founder of COSMOGRAPHIE is Marie.A.GUYODO , educated as a designer in Fashion design, Textile and Conceptual design.

After working in France, Japan and United Kingdom in the fashion design industry in Womenswear and Kidswear, she founded COSMOGRAPHIES in 2019.

why

The project : Playfulness, storytelling , poetry, in a shapeshifting design studio… concepts to create small universes made of emotions, sensations and colours.

“ I am always fascinated by how design can create so many kind of visual universes in the intimate sphere of our daily-life.
Complexe, multi-faceted, sensible, and yet so simple it needs no words to communicate: Design is the langage we use to tell stories.
Many stories… simple ones, and deeper ones.

Working in the fashion industry , I loved having a multi-facetted and intense approach.
Each season everything is to be born anew.
Every theme and trend is a world with a different visual langage to plunge into.
That is a passionate work ! full of colours and textures.

But I felt the need to create a more intimate dialogue with the design process, a different rhythm.
To me, researching and letting space for discussion between designer and manufacturer is very important.
Taking the time to be curious about a texture, a process, to explore different languages and discussions with a material , all of this is precious.
Self-edition and collaborative projects with human-sized manufacturers is a way to explore design projects with this authenticity and creative freedom.
Development of a product is also questions of sustainability, humanity and rhythm and I feel enthusiast to explore designs on these terms.
Creating my own design studio felt just right, but as a kind of “ LAB” project, constructing itself and evolving with collaborations and experimentations.

Exploring more deeply the Home design creative playground made a lot of sense to me , home is a precious feeling and an interesting subject to explore.
Surface like covering, flooring, tilling, rugs are very playful topics. As Visual as sensorial products to design and it can impact space in a meaningful way.

So “Cosmographies “ is a name that fit perfectly two side of the studio:

the idea of this project as a versatile and multi-facetted design studio

but also the idea that homes are small worlds in themselves that we shape with textures, colours, sense and a lot of emotions “

philosophies of cosmographies

Take it slow ! : doing design with the good rhythm & for the right reasons.
that is the philosophy on which the studio is based but it is still now a whole bunch of unanswered questions and solutions to explore.

We do believe that slow design & consumption is the good way to do “business” !
The norm of the market is so that we often do not consume and produce in a manner that makes sense for the creator nor the client.
Such production and consumption is also harmful for people and the planet on too many case …

But things are changing, and we hope to contribute on our level to a new relation with objets that surrounds us :
more positive, more respectful and more meaningful.

We are exploring how to do this and have this goal at heart.
Use environment-friendly material as much as possible avoiding the creation of waste or use of unnecessary resources.
we prefer natural material and ones already on its second life circle !
That is the least we can do.

We also want to enlighten hand-made, or slow production processes.
More respectful to both human and planet by being reasonable, it also bring forward the beauty of know-how, but also uniqueness and “ imperfections” that let us see the human behind the product we hold in our hand as a client. Consciousness, care and reason begins in these small details.That is why we will be editing , whenever possible, hand-made products.

Fairness and happy relationship with our suppliers are very important.
We value the knowledge and know-how of the people working on our products,
We will not seek far away what we can find close to us in terms of production, but be love to design internationally, that is in our creative DNA.
So if we go “ far” it would be for a reason, not for cost.
The textile and Handcraft industry is rich and made of many different knowledge as diverse as people and culture.
We believe that exchange and collaboration is an essential and enriching process but only if it elevates both sides.
We wish to create design that does good & open minds in the process, whenever we would get the chance to do so.

We want to go deeper in these meaningful questions regarding in our design process so we hope to do so, step by step in the up-coming projects of the studio, but also by working with compagnies that could feel the same way that we do !