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Day one

His professional career began 31 years ago, at Edipresse, in a time when the newspapers were barely starting to use computers in the production process.

“The editor-in-chief of that period had the idea that people making layouts could be editors themselves, editors who learned how to use a computer. I was offered this job and I worked like this for two years. I learned how to make interviews, political analyses, special coverage, and at the same time I learned how to use these computers and I had some ideas on how to improve the layouts of the newspapers. The bosses noticed I was also interested in the content, effects; I also had personal ideas on how to present them”, said Stephane Carpentier (photo).

After two years, he was offered to work in a small department, called development. That is where he started to design and redesign the layouts of newspapers and magazines and to improve the existent concept.

“It was a two-month experience in layout. I was given the task to handle a page in the newspaper I was working at that time. The editor in chief was really impressed and told me ‘Go ahead!’, ‘Do it the way you think it is the best. Don’t try to copy what has been done before, just make it your own ID’. And so I did, and the next day at the briefing, he said ‘look at this, this is revolution. This has been done by a layouter with only two-month experience’. And that was a fantastic support”, Carpentier said.

The person who influenced him the most in his professional career was a colleague at Edipresse’s development department.

“I worked with a layouter, who was specialized in architecture. In this department at Edipresse I was very close to him. And he had this fantastic structure. When we started the project, he was building it like a house as an architect. What influenced me the most was this very precise, contextual way of thinking. I think that being an architect is one of the best trainings to become a layouter”.

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