• 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

  • 2009
  • Théâtre musical de Besançon — programme

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  • 2009
  • Théâtre musical de Besançon — programme

Annual programme for the Théâtre musical de Besançon. For this second season I introduced gradients, transforming the colored pads into fuzzy clouds.

  • 2017
  • Les 2 Scènes

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  • 2017
  • Les 2 Scènes

Annual poster for the season 2017-2018 of Les 2 Scènes. Developed in augmented reality : the printed poster activate a video and online contents, via a specific app.

  • 2010
  • Le mur de l’école

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  • 2010
  • Le mur de l’école

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.

  • 2010
  • Miqi O. Untold

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  • 2010
  • Miqi O. Untold

Artwork for the 1st volume of the EP UNTOLD of my friend Miqi O. FKDB Prod.

  • 2021
  • Les 2 Scènes — Saison 21-22

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  • 2021
  • Les 2 Scènes — Saison 21-22

Posters for the season 2021-2022 of Les 2 Scènes. In collaboration with Jochen Gerner

  • 2018
  • Kantia — Artha

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  • 2018
  • Kantia — Artha

The incessant storms of the 18th century defeated the natural defenses that were protecting the city of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. In the middle of the 19th century, Napoleon III ordered the construction of dykes in Socoa, Sainte Barbe et Artha, that have been part of the landscape since the 20th century. Nicolas Waltefaugle's photographs show the relentless fight of these constructions against the ocean. They are printed in 2 colors, matt black and a spectacular chrome ink, exclusive to Lézard graphique silkscreen workshop, which reflects light like a mirror. The series of 8 posters (5 landscape and 3 portrait formats) are available at www.kantia.eu

  • Kantia, éditeur d’images
  • 700 × 500 mm
  • Silkscreen, 2 colors
  • Lézard graphique
  • Typeface:
  • Metallic duotone Kantia
  • 2016
  • Tardy — Typeface

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  • 2016
  • Tardy — Typeface

Custom typeface for the Atelier d’architecture Tardy & associés, Besançon

  • 2018
  • Étincelle — programme

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  • 2018
  • Étincelle — programme

Annual programme for the season 2018-2019 of L’Étincelle, Théâtre de la ville de Rouen. 104 p.

  • 2012
  • Un imprimeur : Lézard Graphique

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  • 2012
  • Un imprimeur : Lézard Graphique

Curation and organisation, with Vincent Perrottet, of the exhibition “Un imprimeur : Lézard Graphique”, presenting a selection of posters printed by the famous silkscreen workshop. With works of Karel Martens, Hennig Wagenbreth, Metahaven, Sarah De Bondt, Jean-Marc Ballée, Mathias Schweizer, Fanette Mellier, Frederic Teschner, åbäke, Office ABC, Ter Bekke & Behage, Helmo, William Jean, Pierre DiSciulio, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Lieux Communs, Flag, Pierre Béjan et Nicolas Ledoux… This traveling exhibition has later been presented in many places: Chaumont, Le Havre, Amiens, Auxerre, etc.

  • Ecole régionale des beaux-arts de Besançon
  • Typeface:
  • 2020
  • Les 2 Scènes — 20-21 Posters

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  • 2020
  • Les 2 Scènes — 20-21 Posters

Posters for the season 2020-2021 of Les 2 Scènes. Unfortunately, most of the shows were cancelled, because of the sanitary situation. Typeset in Album Sans

  • 2015
  • Les 2 Scènes

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  • 2015
  • Les 2 Scènes

Posters for the season 2015-2016 of Les 2 Scènes.

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