Flyer for La Cope, a cooperative shop run by students at the school of fine arts in Besan çon. Typeset in Antique Étroite.

In 1982, few months after the publication of Donald Knuth article The Concept of a Meta-Font, Visible Language publishes Meta-Font, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics : Comments on Donald Knuth’s « The Concept of  a  Meta-Font », by Douglas Hofstadter, an american professor of cognitive sciences. His remarks bring nuances to Knuth’s conclusions, addressing the problem from another point of view. His investigations in typography, in the field of artificial intelligence, subsequently appeared in the Letter Spirit project, where he tried to develop a program that is capable of developing an entire alphabet from a few seed letters, based on a very coarse grid. Years later, when the concepts of parametric fonts, AI and deep learning applied to type design reappeared, Hofstadter’s ideas are still relevant. Talks (FR / EN) given in Istanbul during Istype 2017, on June 10, and at the Fonderie de l'image in Paris, on November 13, 2018. ANRTABCD, Letter K

The Métropole Rhin-Rhône area has brought together several cities between France, Switzerland and Germany, connected in 2010 by a high-speed train line. To materialize this network, a major cultural operation was imagined, utopies & innovations. Under the general curation of Laurent Gerverau, these are 12 local themes, and dozens of exhibitions that are scheduled throughout 2010, around these concepts.
It seemed difficult to illustrate these concepts with a single image: also, I preferred to propose an alphabet, which constitutes the visual identity, and ensures the link between the multiple variations. It is used to compose the logotype, which was designed when the Metropolis had only 9 cities; they were symbolized by the 9 points that appeared in the words "utopias & innovations", like 9 points on a map, network, route ... The metropolis then moved to 16 cities, but the logo remained the same.

Identity and flyer for the exhibition of the Type Directors Club at ECV Paris, 2013. Typeset in Garaje, in various weights, widths and sizes, and one single stroke.

Annual programme for the Théâtre musical de Besançon. Nobody noticed, but the cover is a data visualisation of all th shows of the season, with the color code of the disciplines covered.

Visual identity and custom typeface for La Fabrike, architecture studio based in Besançon. In collaboration with Baptiste Plantin. Photos by Nicolas Waltefaugle, website by Thomas Bouville.

Seminar given at ANRT Nancy on Oct. 26, 2017. About revival, litterature and autorship. With John Downer, Miguel de Cervantès, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Le Corbusier and a dog. ANRTABCD, Letter A

Curation and organisation of the 2nd edition of the ANRT conference Automatic Type Design. ARTEM Campus, Nancy (France), November 17, 2016. With Elisa Barney Smith (USA), Bianca Berning (UK), Charles Bigelow (USA), Dave Crossland (USA), Jérémy Hornus (FR), Gerry Leonidas (UK), Yannick Mathey (FR), Laurence Penney (UK), Nick Sherman (USA)… Design and website by Thomas Bouville. Automatic Type Design

Talk given EESAB Lorient, on January 28, 2018. The lives and deaths of John Baskerville. With John Baskerville, Caron de Beaumarchais, Voltaire, Sarah Eaves, Claude Jacob, Berger- Levrault, and Zuzana Licko. ANRTABCD, Letter B