Being Charrette
A familiar expression used by
Beaux-Arts Architecture Students
to describe intensive work handed in at the last minute and transported on a handcart.
Before 1968, to meet their deadlines, students from « Beaux-Arts of Paris » rented a cart from the local coal merchant. They would load up their large-scale projects, glued to stretchers, and hurry off to school, usually just before the deadline.
From then on, students adopted this expression to describe the hustle and bustle of the rendering process, and the term gradually spread to the world of graphic design and communications.