C. Darius Delaunay-Driquert

About C. Darius Delaunay-Driquert

I am a French designer, strategist, and founder of Ateliersavant, a multidisciplinary creative think tank working across brand, product, space, storytelling, and venture development.For the past 15+ years, I have worked internationally at the intersection of design, business, and culture, helping shape ideas into brands, products, environments, and experiences that are both commercially relevant and creatively distinctive.My work spans industries and formats: luxury, fashion, hospitality, consumer products, entertainment, advertising, and emerging ventures. Depending on the project, that may mean defining a brand strategy, developing a product, shaping a spatial concept, directing a visual world, or helping position a business for growth.I am especially interested in projects that need more than execution.The kind that require vision, structure, taste, and the ability to connect strategy with form.Through Ateliersavant, I work with founders, brands, and companies looking for high-level thinking and strong creative direction across:• brand and positioning• product and industrial design• creative direction and storytelling• spatial and hospitality concepts• venture thinking and concept developmentMy background includes work presented internationally, collaborations across multiple markets, and projects ranging from consumer-facing brands to more complex multidisciplinary systems.I use LinkedIn to share perspectives on design, branding, innovation, business, and the creation of ideas that deserve to exist in the world properly.If you are building something ambitious, feel free to reach out.

Experience

1. CEO & Founder

   Ateliersavant

   Oct 2011 — Present

   Ateliersavant is a multidisciplinary creative think tank working across strategy, design, storytelling, and concept development.We help brands, founders, and companies shape ideas with greater clarity, relevance, and distinction, whether that means defining a brand, developing a product, creating a spatial concept, directing a visual world, or helping structure a new venture.Our work spans sectors including luxury, hospitality, consumer products, fashion, entertainment, technology, and innovation-led businesses.What defines Ateliersavant is not one discipline but the ability to connect them properly:strategy with aesthetics,business with culture,concept with execution.We are particularly well suited to projects that require high-level thinking, strong creative direction, and the ability to move across categories rather than stay trapped inside one.

Education

• Strate, Ecole de Design

  Master's Degree - summa cum laude, Industrial Design & Interactive Systems and Objects

  2008 — 2010