From A Galaxy Far Away… 11.27.2007

If René Magritte, the 20th surrealistic Belgian painter, was reincarnated, he would have come back as Christophe Huet. The Parisian graphic designer has such a personal vision, that his specialty is photoshopping the most mundane images of daily life. Reality is not nearly as much fun as the imagination. Why not add a giant head on a tiny body, or a door to another realm placed keenly in the middle of a library? His pictorial signature has pleased an increasing numbers of magazines and companies, so much so that Christophe launched his own agency a few years back called Asylum (Agence Asile). Working for Cartier, Lancôme, Microsoft and Playstation, Christophe Huet was given total carte blanche to strike our imagination, and pep up the sometimes mundane companies. He’s used to making up whole worlds, from fang high hills to dancers with a jungle creeper-cable. With a camera and a computer in hand, there’s just one limit: how far will Huet’s imagination stretch? To the ends of the earth, we hope.