Pierre Bernard is a prominent and internationally acclaimed French

French people

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 graphic artist and designer

Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

. He was a member and then the manager for the L’Atelier Création Graphique in Paris, France

France

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, an organization he founded along with Dirk Behage and Fokke Draaijer. He was the recipient of the 2006 Prix Erasme. In 1970, Bernard founded Grapus

Grapus

Grapus was a collective of graphic artists, working together between 1970 and 1991, which sought to combine excellence of design with a social conscience.-History:...

, a collective of graphic artists who are members of the French Communist Party

French Communist Party

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. Bernard has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale

Alliance Graphique Internationale

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 since 1987. He was a notable graphic design teacher at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs

The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs is a public university of art and design and is one of the most prestigious French grande école...

 (ENSAD) in Paris. Bernard's status as a graphic designer equals that of graphic artists such as Niklaus Troxler and Werner Jekerof of Switzerland and Eiko Ishioka

Eiko Ishioka

is an Oscar-winning costume designer, known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media, and has been called "Japan’s leading art director and graphic designer," though she now works primarily in New York City....

 of Japan.

Books by Bernard

• Le roman du Mississippi
• Le roman du Nil (1977:Plon
  Plon (publisher)
  Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers.The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelle, France. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.-History:The Editions Plon were...
  
  , Paris, ISBN 2259002846)
• Le roman de la Loire
• Le roman du Gange (1991:Plon, Paris, ISBN 2259022162)