Café Typô - Blogue sur l'art typographique

Use the right quotation marks

Type tips 4 minutes

There are multiple forms of quotation marks, each suited to a particular context. We will study in detail their characteristics and the simplest ways to use them well.

More elegant texts with typographic apostrophe

Type tips 5 minutes

I open in this blog a section of typographic tips, designed to answer questions that come up frequently in my conversations with clients or students. This section is for all users of typography, that is to say almost everyone now!

Public Typography in Saint-Étienne

News 3 minutes

Last March 31 and April 1st, I was invited to lead a workshop a little out of the ordinary during the Biennale du Design in Saint-Étienne, France.

Type Workshop at ESADHAR Le Havre, France

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Typographic workshop hosted by Brigitte Monnier and Bruno Bernard, at École supérieure d’art et de design du Havre, from 6 to 9 October 2014.

Letterpress : visit at Ateliers André

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I recently asked the Ateliers André to print my new business card – an opportunity to pay a visit to this high place of printing and engraving.

Inheritances, typography and digital arts

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On May 24, students of Campus de la Fonderie de l’image in Bagnolet near Paris, organized a day of round tables around the issues of inheritance to the digital age. I was invited to debate with Jonathan Fabrguettes, my colleague from Typographies.fr and Janique Laudouar, a blogger specialist in digital arts.

Graphics and heritage

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Graphisme et patrimoine(s) (graphic design design and heritage) exhibition at the French national Library. Selection of contemporary graphic design pieces offering a reflection on heritage – tangible and intangible. Curators: Sandrine Maillet and Anne-Marie Sauvage.

Typographic interviews

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Le magazine Etapes: a consacré son numéro 203 à la typographie. Il contient notamment un dossier d’entretiens avec onze créateurs de caractères français dont moi-même.

Lettres Types

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Anima typeface – under development – appears in this new book from Ypsilon publishing house’s Libreairie typographique. This book follows the exhibition Lettres type held in 2011 and 2012 in Nancy, Chaumont and eventually in Hong Kong for the last ATypI meeting.

Types For The New Century

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L’Adso fait partie de la sélection de cette exposition, organisée par l’association anglaise Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, et commissionnée par Will Hill, de l’université d’Anglia Ruskin de Cambridge. Ouverte en mai dernier à Londres, l’exposition voyagera dans le monde jusqu’en 2013.