Café Typô - Blogue sur l'art typographique

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.

Type Image

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Book by Barbara Brownie, on typography used as an image. Published by Gingko Press, 224 pages. Participation in the selection of the book with Posthume typeface.