• 2023
  • Le Livre sur la Place

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  • 2023
  • Le Livre sur la Place

A new and flexible visual identity for Nancy book fair, created in 1979 under the patronage of the Académie Goncourt. Typeset in a Baskerville rip-off by Claude Jacob, owned by Nancy printer Berger-Levrault since the late 18th Century, and digitized by ANRT in 2017-2018 under the name of Baskervville.

  • 2023
  • Les 2 Scènes — Danse & Cinéma 22-23

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  • 2023
  • Les 2 Scènes — Danse & Cinéma 22-23

Posters for the festival Danse & Cinéma, Les 2 Scènes, Scène nationale de Besançon.
Typeset in Album Sans

  • 2008
  • Musiques de Rues — Programme

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  • 2008
  • Musiques de Rues — Programme

Programme of the 3rd edition of Musiques de Rues, a festival of contemporary brass bands and artistic interventions in public space. Printed in 3 fluorescent colors + black, instead of CMYK

  • 2022
  • TPE — Poster

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  • 2022
  • TPE — Poster

Poster for the season 2021-2022 of the Théâtre Paul Éluard, in Bezons.

  • 2022
  • Leïla Buecher — Posters

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  • 2022
  • Leïla Buecher — Posters

Posters and street campaign for the opening of Leïla Buecher boutique in Barbès, Paris. Leïla Buecher is a talented and independent French jeweler.
Photos by Laurent Castellani

  • 2014
  • Luxeuil script

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  • 2014
  • Luxeuil script

Luxeuil script is a very rare Merovingian script, from the beginning of the seventh century. It is derived from uncial, half-uncial and roman cursive: before the advent of the Carolingian Minuscule, it is considered as one of the first formal minuscule.
Intrigued by this local unknown writing, born a few kilometers from my home, I studied it with my friend Claude-Laurent François and tried to design a digital version of it. I had to understand the ductus and then to reproduce the gesture and stroke of the pen. Rather than drawing the outlines, I digitized the inner skeleton, and applied afterwards a virtual elliptic pen. This dynamic approach allowed me to create the very large number of ligatures contained in this handwriting: these ligatures are created automatically with initial, medial or final contextual forms.
Unpublished

  • 2016
  • Les 2 Scènes — Moire poster

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  • 2016
  • Les 2 Scènes — Moire poster

Posters for the season 2015-2016 of Les 2 Scènes. Each copy of the poster is unique : During screen printing, each sheet is slightly offset with each pass, producing a new moiré effect. Another funny game we played with my friends at Lézard graphique.

  • 2020
  • Les 2 Scènes — Saison 20-21

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  • 2020
  • Les 2 Scènes — Saison 20-21

Posters for the season 2020-2021 of Les 2 Scènes. Illustrations by Jochen Gerner

  • 2013
  • Scène nationale de Besançon — Themes

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  • 2013
  • Scène nationale de Besançon — Themes

Thematical posters for the season 2013-2014 of the Scène nationale de Besançon. For this 2nd season, the plaette is a bit broader : I added a neon yellow to the blue / red pair.

  • 2008
  • Musiques de Rues — Poster

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  • 2008
  • Musiques de Rues — Poster

Poster of the 3rd edition of Musiques de Rues, a festival of contemporary brass bands and artistic interventions in public space.

  • 2008
  • Calendario Groupama

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  • 2008
  • Calendario Groupama

Custom lettering for the 2008 calendar of Groupama Assicurazioni (Roma, IT), in partnership with the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici

  • 2010
  • Antiques Étroites

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  • 2010
  • Antiques Étroites

Antique Étroite is first a metal type that I discovered in the typography workshop of the School of Fine Arts of Besançon, where I studied. It is part of the numerous anonymous sans serifs, of unknown origin, of the beginning of the XXth century. Its design is far from perfect, but it is precisely these imperfections that I like: odd proportions, unconsistency, which produce an interesting flavour that I wanted to restore in digital form. I adapted the 60pt size, before noting that the different sizes of the family presented huge differences: a lack of coordination in its development, less systematic in the techniques of the time. I therefore digitized all the sizes, respecting the errors and approximations of the sources. Unpublished

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