Kim Laporte

Junior Designer - Illustrator - Animator
Amateur Historian - Fr Eng Translator

Projects page

WORK IN PROGRESS

.Tourist guide zine
themed around the french revolution.Full musical english subtitles

Ghosts CBS Keychains

GHOSTS is a show by CBS, an American version of the British show by the BBC.
I've created these designs to sell to fans of the show like mine that wish to have their favorite character on them at all times!
I've made the design and choose the sizes and printing style, then used a Manufacturer to make them come to life.

Love & solidarity:
a union yaoi zine

Love & Solidarity: A Union Yaoi Zine is an art book featuring two mascots designed for the Animation Workers Ignited shorts created by Jellybox Studios. This project was created to promote donations to AID IA and raise awareness for major issues in the animation industry. A large team of artists is set to contribute art for a physical print version of the zine and additional merchandise.

I've had the pleasure to work with the merch team to bring eyes on the project which is so dear to me.
I could create two designs for them that have been preordered and I can't wait to see people enjoy it all over the world.

Archives

I do researches through articles and websites holding informations I look for. To make sure that these won't get lost, I save them on Internet Archives:

In 2024, I've discovered the musical "ABE".
It's been created and released in 2009, no recordings are available to the public.
With perseverance and a bit of pushing, I was able to recover some recordings and songs.
I have posted all my findings on YouTube publicly.
I hope to one day access the entire media.

Translations

I've always liked to make translations from French to English since
I became confident in my skills in both languages.
In 2025, with my interest into the French Revolution online community, I've realized many ressources weren't translated-
or their translations weren't accessibles.
I decided to took in on myself to make them accessible.

1789 Les amants de la bastille
french musical

Les Amants De La Bastille is a french musical from 2012.
The productor, Dove Attia, has also created Le Roi Soleil and Mozard l'Opera Rock- two historical musicals as well. 1789 talks about the french revolution and the story of two lovers during this period; the entire show is free to watch on youtube.
To share this to my friends, I started the entreprise to translate the entire show.
I have made a google doc with all the songs and their translations.WORK IN PROGRESS.

French documents translations

I have found (with help from a friend) interesting documents that haven't been translated yet. I have compiled them into a google doc
WORK IN PROGRESS.

In order what the texts translated are:

  • Assembly sitting 11/07/1789 Reading of a letter from the king - Debate on the fundation of a finance comittee - Draft of the Declaration of rights

  • Letter from General La Fayette 16/06/1792 regarding the state of the Assembly

  • Assembly sitting 18/06/1792 reading of various letters - greeding of a membership of traders - presentation of a projects of decree about estates - listing patriotic donations - presentation of a projet of paymet for Sires dismantling production of fake money - reading of a letter from the king about new head of departments - presentation of a projects of decree to supply the central army - discussion about feudal rights and national debts - project of decree on the payment of stations for the national guards in Paris - Reading of a letter by the former minister Mourges - Reading of a letter from a battalion of the army - Reading of the letter by La Fayette and reactions - Reading of the rules about the President of the Assembly call to order - Reading of two letters by the new Minister of Home Office and reactions

  • Article by Maurice Dommanget 1963 regarding Saint-Just's many names

Internship as a Graphic designer

As an international student, I had the goal to go aboard for my internship.
Mister Sandman, even as a drastically different activity as my study, has this very international spirit that interested me deeply.
I got interested in the graphic design internship they offered to learn about a new way of working with software I already knew.

Picture editing

During the internship, my main mission was to edit product pictures.
The team had multiple product pictures that could not be used yet for the marketplace; multiple reasons were at play: colorimetry, brightness, sadows...

motion design

My manager needed me to create a video to present their spring mattress and its properties. The base I had presented first was satisfying enough and after some minor changes was uploaded on their product's page.

icon design

Some pictures needed special icons and illustrations to show their specificity.

Info sheet design

One matress needed precise handling, which necessitated an information sheet.
I've created the icons and layout that can be used for this.

Sticker design

Some of the mattresses have two different hardness
depending on the side it is on. To indicate it, the packaging required a sticker showing this exact information in a simple way.
I was on charge of making this sticker an the presentation.

pruduct presentation draft

Mister Sandman was targetting new marketplace for B2B.
For this, the marketing team asked us to draft layouts that
would be used in a presentation.
I've made moodboards and multiple upon multiple drafts for this mission.

We finally sent two versions and received the marketing team's feedbacks.
Finally, I've finalized two versions of the presentation that can now be used.

Web design

Mister Sandman has its own website using a marketplace management tool.
Although this seemed not to be representing their current products.
I was tasked with drafting a new layout for the website.
This is the final draft I've sent out.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Tourist guide zine
themed around the french revolution