About

Sylvain, also known as Synckop, is a graphic designer, illustrator, and visual artist. A graduate of Corvisart School of Graphic Arts in Paris, he has developed a multidisciplinary practice over the past twenty years at the intersection of graphic design, illustration, and contemporary art. He also teaches graphic design in Paris.

His work combines digital processes with hands-on experimentation. Through collage, texture, drawing, and digital composition, he creates hybrid images where psychedelic, organic, geometric, and abstract influences converge.

Contemporary painting also plays a central role in his artistic practice. It serves as a space for research and experimentation where gestures, calligraphy, textures, layering, and chance occurrences interact freely. Oscillating between abstraction and suggestion, his works explore immersive and sensitive territories, extending the questions present in his graphic work while giving greater importance to materiality, gesture, and intuition.

Deeply inspired by music, alternative cultures, and independent creative scenes, he develops a visual language in which image and sound continuously interact. His work seeks to translate emotions, rhythms, and sonic textures into visual forms, creating worlds that are at once organic, immersive, and emotionally resonant.

This approach naturally leads him to collaborate with musicians, record labels, festivals, publishers, and cultural organizations on album artwork, posters, visual identities, editorial objects, and artistic projects. The boundaries between commissioned work, graphic experimentation, painting, and personal research remain intentionally fluid. Each project informs the others, contributing to the evolution of a distinctive universe where materiality, abstraction, imagery, and musical culture intersect.