Damien Poulain is a London-based French graphic designer and art director well known for his work with Dazed & Confused, Levi's, Nike and photographer Pieter Hugo. He also creates original posters for art galleries, books and websites, and edgy personal artworks widely documented in the likes of Creative Review and Grafik.

Damien's non-commercial work is marked by a concern with how our society views itself; from the neurosis of a woman comparing herself with the icons of the British tabloid press (An Ugly Girl) to his intricate poster for the exhibition New Utopia. The latter features builders constructing a world from the tropes of popular culture (including a super-sculpted body builder, Karloff's Frankenstein's Monster, and Superman).

For KK Outlet, Poulain has created a series of exclusive original pieces, partly inspired by a visit to the Outsider Art Gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland. Here, Poulain found himself deeply impressed by a breed of art untouched by mercantile aims. The art gallery's pieces - produced by self-taught artists, the mentally ill and members of society's fringe - had a lasting impact on Poulain, who found their free-wheeling style and desire to innovate highly appealing. Working with the newly acquired instincts of an Art Brut creative, he was prompted to produce a whole range of unapologetically challenging works. Among these are a number of strange posters collected under the title Y.E.S. The images here are of currency denominations (a Euro sign, a dollar, the Yen) sculpted from what appear to be wine corks. Closer inspection reveals skull-like faces and leering demon heads engraved into each cork. The overall effect is of a bizarre, pagan sculpture, a monument to a deity as inscrutable as he is brutal - money.

Le Nouveau Riche is at KK Outlet, 42 Hoxton Square, London N1 6PB until the 14th of September 2008.