Jul 10, 2026 · 1 hr · 15 segments
Malika Favre is a renowned French artist and illustrator Barcelona, whose impressive list of clients spans across both commercial and editorial projects . We discuss how leaving London her shift from…
Malika FavreGuest
Marilou FaureHost
Sarah AndreassonHost
There's something quite mysterious about some of your compositions and the way your characters...
And I'm like, every time I see it I'm like, I don't know where she's going but- [laughs]
Do you think of that when you're creating a piece or is it like you said like it's more like it comes at, as it goes and the concept sort of takes place?
I think it comes maybe from like having maybe empathy for, for how the world works and how people think.
And I know that, for example, I'm someone that I don't need you to spell out everything for me to understand and I, I find beauty in filling in the gaps.
And I think most people do and anything for me that's like hammered or telling you exactly what's happening or too obvious it, it has less, you have less emotional connection to it because you don't participate in the piece.
And, and at the same time I think when you don't spell things out very clearly there is always a risk-
And I've always had a lot of difficulties with briefs that are too tight or clients who really want it to be like super, super, super clear and to be like, "Oh, but what if this person doesn't understand or whatever?" And I'm always like, "Trust people.
They are so much more emotionally intelligent than you think." And, and for me the worst projects I've done is actually when an art director or someone or a client got scared and didn't wanna take any risk and wanted to cover every single basis of, and it ends up being really bad.
There's something quite mysterious about some of your compositions and the way your characters...
And I'm like, every time I see it I'm like, I don't know where she's going but- [laughs]
Do you think of that when you're creating a piece or is it like you said like it's more like it comes at, as it goes and the concept sort of takes place?
I think it comes maybe from like having maybe empathy for, for how the world works and how people think.
And I know that, for example, I'm someone that I don't need you to spell out everything for me to understand and I, I find beauty in filling in the gaps.
And I think most people do and anything for me that's like hammered or telling you exactly what's happening or too obvious it, it has less, you have less emotional connection to it because you don't participate in the piece.
And, and at the same time I think when you don't spell things out very clearly there is always a risk-
And I've always had a lot of difficulties with briefs that are too tight or clients who really want it to be like super, super, super clear and to be like, "Oh, but what if this person doesn't understand or whatever?" And I'm always like, "Trust people.
They are so much more emotionally intelligent than you think." And, and for me the worst projects I've done is actually when an art director or someone or a client got scared and didn't wanna take any risk and wanted to cover every single basis of, and it ends up being really bad.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
