Benjamin Savignac, a French graphic designer, is taking this experimentation a step further by inserting conventional line drawings into the jumble of his cut-and-paste montages. Looking like tracings rather than inspired drawings, his figures are striking because they make no artistic claims. Their very blandness is provocative. They are disturbingly uncool, in sharp contrast with the hand-silhouetted photographs, splashes of color, squiggles, patterns, and typographical exercises woven into his collages. His drawings are lame, yet you can’t help but like them–against your best esthetic judgment.

Benjamin Savignac illustrations