Andréa Philippon spent nearly eight years in the hospitality industry before completing three years of intensive training in art and communication in Lausanne. Now a full-time freelance 3D designer, he draws inspiration from nature, plants, mushrooms, ceramics, and architecture, which he combines with a dedicated practice of personal photography: he enjoys going out to photograph whatever inspires him in the moment, particularly plants and flowers. His evolving series Digital Garden reflects this obsession with living things: through a procedural system, he creates constantly mutating digital specimens, combining digital proceduralism, photography, photogrammetry, and digital painting to blur the line between the scanned real world and the modeled imaginary. Refusing to be overly influenced by the work of others so he can better follow his own path, he champions an organic, vibrant, and futuristic aesthetic, where each animation becomes a tribute to the energy and grace of nature. He readily admits to particularly enjoying the moment when, once the 3D structure is in place, he can play around with the settings, colors, and overall atmosphere of the piece: the most satisfying part of a creative process that never grows tiresome, as each new project brings its own set of technical discoveries.

His unique approach has led him to collaborate with artists such as David Guetta and Björk, notably on the music video and album trailer for Fossora, produced with the agency M/M Paris, as well as Black Coffee, and with prestigious brands including Adidas, Salomon, ESPN, PlayStation, Motorola, L'Occitane, Mulberry, and Zara Home. His works have been exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Barcelona, Copenhagen, and Kazan, notably at NFT Paris, the Constellations Festival in Metz, on the screens of ShibuyaTV in Tokyo, as well as at the Nur Festival in Kazan, Russia, at LYNfabrikken in Denmark, and at the Load Gallery in Barcelona. His work has also been featured in publications such as StirWorld, Visual Atelier 8, and Red Eye World, as well as in Valérie Belmokhtar’s book Au cœur du vivant.