About Us
BURO-GDS believes in the value of crossing different cultures and multiple points of views to create powerful visual communications. Each project starts with a question, a conversation, and grows into beautiful experiences. To us, the success of a strong visual message is rooted in a solid concept, and flourishes with flawless execution. Our job is to define this concept with our clients and then bring it to life expertly through different media.
Visual Identity
Logo Creation
Logo Updates
Graphic Guidelines
Color Palettes
Branding
Custom Typography
Interactive Design
Web Sites
Mobile Applications
Animations
User Interfaces
Email Newsletters
Icons
Signage
Exhibition Graphics
Wayfinding Systems
Banners
Wall Graphics
Signs, Panels
Multimedia Installations
We are
Ellen Tongzhou Devigon-Zhao 赵同舟
Born in China, grew up in New York City, and now working and living in Paris, Ellen works on identity, interactive, and print projects. She is educated at the prestigious Cooper Union School of Art in New York and École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. For the past fifteen years, she’s worked on three continents in three languages.
Ellen is interested in food, science, and art, and the possibilities of mixing the three.
Elamine Maecha
French, with roots in the Comoros Islands, Elamine is a typographer and a specialist of publication design with an emphasis on printing techniques. Elamine has worked on high profile projects in the cultural field. Elamine is educated at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg and the Schcool of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He was also a researcher at the Atelier National de Recherches Typographiques, the only national research center for typography in France.
Elamine is passionate about teaching and the search for perfections in tangible details.
We work for
Museums and Galleries
- Achim Moeller, New York
- Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
- Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York
- Focus Gallery at Bard Graduate Center, New York
- Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
- Galerie Anatome, Paris
- Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy
- IMA / Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
- International Center of Photography, New York
- Musée du Louvre, Paris
- MAC/VAL, musée d’art contemporain, Val de Marne
- Shelburne Museum, Vermont
- Pavillon Alsace at World Expo 2010, Shanghai
Cultural Institutions
- ADETEF, assistance technique France
- Aquarium tropical, Porte Dorée Paris
- Centre des monuments nationaux, Paris
- CNAP / centre national des arts plastiques, Paris
- CNHI / Centre National de l’Histoire et de I’immigration, Paris
- ENSAD / École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
- FIAF, French Institut Alliance Française, New York
- HEAR / Haute école des arts de Rhin, Strasbourg
- Institut Français, Paris
- Mairie de Paris
- Synesthésie, Paris
- Metz en Scènes, Metz
- Université Paris-Saclay
Private Organisations
- Ellis, Paris
- Leslie Hewitt, New York
- Lime et Lajiao, Hong Kong
- JP Morgan, New York
- Kenzo, Paris
- Nelly Rodi, Paris
- UBS, New York
- Women in Islam, New York
- WSM Photo, Paris
Agencies
