Annual programme for the season 2020-2021 of the Théâtre Paul Éluard, in Bezons.

Le Théâtre musical de Besançon (dir. Loïc Boissier) was created in 2008: it occupies Besançon Municipal Theater, an exceptional building by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. The theater is designed according to a very innovative circular plan for the time (1786), which made it possible, in Ledoux's initial project, to see the scene from everywhere. This aspect is represented in a famous engraving, “View of the Besançon Theater in an eye”. This eye and the circle are the basis of the visual identity that I designed for the Theater. To illustrate the richness and variety of its programming, an extensive color code (which covers the entire spectrum) makes it possible to identify the different registers. The character used is the Bodoni ITC, from Sumner Stone, my favorite digital revival of the typeface cut by Giambattista Bodoni in the same year as the construction of this theater. It’s been progressively replaced by my own revival, shown here in the logotype : Mononi, a mono-linear Bodoni.

This publication presents the architectural project of Adelfo Scaranello for the Musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie de Besançon, which reopened in 2018. “From the outset, says Scaranello, one thing was clear: the convictions with which the architects Pierre Marnotte (1797- 1882) and Louis Miquel (1913-1986) had worked successively on this construction had gradually disappeared. […] Restoring the integrity of these architectures within a new project is not about historising but is a way of transforming the links between these two figures.” This 1st volume shows the museum empty spaces, during the construction. Typeset in a modified version of GF Montserrat (OFL).
Photos by Nicolas Waltefaugle & Yohan Zerdoun. 56 p.

Annual programme for the season 2016-2017 of Les 2 Scènes. 80 p.

Besançon school of fine arts is based on a modernist building by Josep Luis Sert (1972). With Rainer Oldendorf and students, we defined a signage system composed in Garaje 0503 Monospace Black, used for the logotype I designed at the time. Letters were reproduced in 2 sizes, A4 and A6. Rainer Oldendorf and Gilles Picouet engraved litterally the concrete wall of the main entrance, to inscribe physically this 750-units grid on the building. The paper letters were directly stuck on the wall, to announce the events of the school, forming a continuous palimpsest.

Annual programme for the season 2017-2018 of L’Étincelle, Théâtre de la ville de Rouen. 104 p.

Annual programme for the season 2022-2023 of the Théâtre Paul Éluard, in Bezons.

Catalogue of the exhibition “Sarkis, Les Pôles des aimants”, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, June 2014 – January 2015. 80 p.

This publication presents the architectural project of Adelfo Scaranello for the Musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie de Besançon, which reopened in 2018. “From the outset, says Scaranello, one thing was clear: the convictions with which the architects Pierre Marnotte (1797- 1882) and Louis Miquel (1913-1986) had worked successively on this construction had gradually disappeared. […] Restoring the integrity of these architectures within a new project is not about historising but is a way of transforming the links between these two figures.” This 2nd volume shows the scenography of the Museum. Typeset in a modified version of GF Montserrat (OFL).
Photos by Nicolas Waltefaugle & Yohan Zerdoun. 56 p.

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