• 2016
  • MM — Splendeurs minérales

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  • 2016
  • MM — Splendeurs minérales

Poster and scenography of the mineralogy exhibition “Splendeurs minérales”, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, March – October 2016. The custom lettering I designed for this poster is the starting point of Minérale typeface.

  • 2020
  • Garaje Wide

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  • 2020
  • Garaje Wide

Garaje takes its inspiration both from the alphabets of the Bauhaus school and the vernacular inscriptions of Spanish garage owners: two worlds that share a desire to reduce typographic forms to simple geometric elements. At the Bauhaus this geometrization is ideological: it represents a rejection of tradition and the affirmation of an objective and rational vocabulary. With garage owners it is a simple matter of logic, certainly due to an ignorance of tradition. It is somewhat naïve to wish to reduce the shapes of the alphabet to elementary forms. Perfect geometrical forms seem less than perfect to our eyes: type Design abounds with optical corrections that compensate for our perception of forms.
Garaje plays specifically with this paradox: its construction is rigorously geometrical, anchored to a scalable modular grid, with no optical correction. A perfectly objective system, but a typographical aberration, simultaneously right and wrong. For the last 20 years, I have extended this family in every direction, to the point of absurdity: extremely narrow or outlandishly wide letterforms, all built from the same modules. Today it is a complete system, available in 44 widths and 5 weights. The complete family counts 445 fonts, hundreds of thousands of glyphs, and zero contrast: Garaje is a typeface which is at the same time brutal and playful, rational and naïve. Garaje Wide subfamily goes from 0505 (5 on 5 grid) to 05015 (5 on 15 grid) and includes 55 fonts + 1 variable font. Its construction allows to compose in many widths without changing the stem weight.
Available at 205TF.
Online specimen

  • 2016
  • MM — Jean Puy

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  • 2016
  • MM — Jean Puy

Catalogue of the exhibition “Jean Puy (1876-1960), Plénitude d’un fauve”, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, April – September 2016. 80 p.

  • 2019
  • Les 2 Scènes — Themes

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  • 2019
  • Les 2 Scènes — Themes

Thematical posters for the season 2019-2020 of Les 2 Scènes, in collaboration with Jochen Gerner (illustrations).

  • 2018
  • Agence Adelfo Scaranello — MBAA 1

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  • 2018
  • Agence Adelfo Scaranello — MBAA 1

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.

  • 2012
  • Scène nationale de Besançon — Programme

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  • 2012
  • Scène nationale de Besançon — Programme

Annual programme for the season 2012-2013 of the Scène nationale de Besançon. An image never appears alone: two are superimposed, one in blue, the other in red, which creates surprising encounters. Despite the huge diversity of the iconography, often provided by the companies, this radical treatment gives a global consistency to the series. The programme is distributed with a pair of anaglyphic glasses, to animate texts and pictures in a glimpse of an eye. 132 p.

  • 2013
  • Ici l’Onde — Programme

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  • 2013
  • Ici l’Onde — Programme

Programme of the 3rd edition of the festival Ici l’Onde, organised by Why Note in Dijon. 24 p.

  • 2021
  • Les 2 Scènes — Programme

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  • 2021
  • Les 2 Scènes — Programme

Annual programme for the season 2021-2022 of Les 2 Scènes, in collaboration with Jochen Gerner (illustrations). 80 p.

  • 2008
  • Théâtre musical de Besançon — Identity

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  • 2008
  • Théâtre musical de Besançon — Identity

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.

  • 2019
  • TPE — Programme

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  • 2019
  • TPE — Programme

Annual programme for the season 2019-2020 of the Théâtre Paul Éluard, in Bezons.

  • 2013
  • Émergences — Journal

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  • 2013
  • Émergences — Journal

Newspaper of the 6th edition of the festival Émergences, a week dedicated to young creation in Besançon. 16 p.

  • 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.

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