Concept Design & Illustration – Armel Gaulme
Meeting a professional illustrator and concept designer
Armel Gaulme is a renowned French illustrator who works both in publishing and in animation as a concept designer. A graduate of Penninghen in Paris (2003), he began his career alternating between type design and illustration for publishing houses and youth magazines. After meeting Maylis de Kerangal, then director of the Baron Perché publishing house, he illustrated several books dedicated to fairy tales, historical stories, and personal projects.
Splitting his work between imaginative worlds — texts by Pierre Bottero, Marie-Aude Murail — and concept design for animation, cinema and video games, he eventually brought these approaches together with his illustrated edition of The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling, published by Caurette Editions.
He later explored H. P. Lovecraft's fantastic literature with the "Carnets Lovecraft" collection at Bragelonne, worked on ancient texts for publisher Les Belles Lettres, and produced a BESTiary in the spirit of J. J. Grandville's drawings. He teaches classical drawing at École Méliès and, since early 2019, has been part of the Superani collective founded by Hyunjin Kim and Kim Jung Gi.
