THE BEAUTY
AT THE SERVICE OF RESEARCH
Communicate in an original and transparent way about your research.How?
AiR&D specializes in unique and tailor-made communication solutions – photographs, videos and other materials taken in your laboratories.
BEAUTY in SERVICE OF RESEARCH
Communicate in an original and transparent way about your research with photographs, videos and other media taken in your laboratories.
We offer unique and tailor-made communications solutions that highlight an essential part of your activity.
THEY TRUST US
OUR WORK
VALEO
THE BRIEF. In 2018, Valeo was in search of communications materials to show the quality of their products down to the finest detail. These materials would be on display at the Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l'Automobile de Paris) as well as other large motor shows in Germany and China.
OUR SOLUTION. AiR&D delivered two series of detailed images of Valeo's products and inputs. These images were printed and mounted (120 x 80 cm), ready to be displayed at the shows.
Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
THE BRIEF. Every year, the Foundation presents awards to researchers whose work contributes to the wellness of society. At the awards ceremony they wanted to present photographs and videos of the researchers in action.
OUR SOLUTION. AiR&D has produced a series of photographs for each researcher honored at the ceremony. The photos capture the researchers at work in their laboratories, the tools they are using as well as the environment of the labs themselves.
The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
THE BRIEF. Every year, the Foundation presents awards to researchers whose work contributes to the wellness of society. At the awards ceremony they wanted to present video-profiles of the researchers and their work.
OUR SOLUTION. AiR&D visited the researchers in their labs, filming and photographing the researchers in action, and sitting down for interviews to hear from the researchers themselves about their work and their passion for it. Because of our scientific expertise, the agency is able to edit the film to produce short and compelling videos while also ensuring an accurate account of the researchers' words and explanations.
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AiR&D works with events agencies and clients to create engaging art exhibitions that are tailor-made for the event and the space.
Because it is the others who talk about it best (exhibition in Kyoto at the end of 2019)
PhD Talent
THE BRIEF. PhD Talent hosted a Career Fair at Paris Centquatre, and was looking for ways to make the space dedicated for __more engaging.
OUR SOLUTION. AiR&D works with events agencies and clients to create engaging art exhibitions that are tailor-made for the event and the space.
Wave length
Shanghai. 2019.
UNESCO
Paris. 2018.
At AiR&D, we adapt flexibly to meet our clients' specific needs. In the past, this has led us to create physical communications materials such as booklets and book covers as well as digital communications like websites as well as videos and graphics for social media.
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THE BRIEF.Each
OUR SOLUTION.AiR&D
Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
THE BRIEF.At the yearly ceremony honoring researchers, the Foundation gives its guests gifts to bring home with them. They were looking to create a notebook that could by guests after the event that also highlighted award winning researchers and their work.
OUR SOLUTION.AiR&D designed and led the production of 500 notebooks highlighting the beauty of the researchers' work. The notebooks included photographs of the researchers, images and descriptions of their work and pages that could be used for note-taking.
Capital fund management (CFM)
THE BRIEF. Capital FundManagement, the authors and publishers were looking for a book cover that was both beautiful and relevant to the book's topic, randommatrices.
OUR SOLUTION.AiR&D collaborated in the creation of this Mondrian-inspired design that highlights the aesthetic side of random matrices, shown here in yellow, red, blue and black.
LET's Work together
Choosing AiR&D, means choosing beauty in service of scientific communication.
ABOUT US
Aesthetics, Transparency, Scientific Excellence
Our founder, Alexandre Darmon, combined his passions photography and science when he started AiR&D. He saw first-hand the beauty of science as a doctoral researcher, studying liquid crystals under the microscope. Inspired by the aesthetics of science, he co-founded Art in Research and AiR&D to reveal the radical, fundamental, often hidden beauty in research laboratories.
Alexandre, his team of specialists in videography, UX design, and ___ are committed to producing beautiful communications that support companies showing transparency to the microscopic level and the beauty of their science.
our history
AiR&D has its roots in the first art gallery dedicated to scientific photography, AiR - Art in Research, founded by scientists and photographers in (fields).
The team at AiR&D uses this experience promoting public research through photography to support companies, foundations and institutes to highlight the beauty of their own scientific research, promoting transparency at the microscopic level and strengthening their public appeal.