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Espace Adélard is an artist residency offering an immersive experience for artists in the city of Frelighsburg, Canada. Artists are invited to work on their projects while at the same time engaging with the local community – whether it’s school children, merchants, or any part of the population – around workshops and discussions about art. The name of the gallery is an homage to Adélard Godbout, Québec’s prime minister in the 1940s, who was an agronomist and took several progressive measures including the right to vote for women and mandatory schooling for children from age 6. As he grew up in Frelighsburg, the idea came quite naturally to associate the name Adélard to this artistic space, a name that evokes a care for nature, patrimony and education. For the 2021 season, Espace Adélard commissioned Jolin Masson to design their program poster. The gray background enhances the colorful paintings by this year’s residents, making it a sober yet poetic informative poster. We find this elegant sobriety in the use of Newsreader from Production Type and Cabinet Grotesk from Indian Type Foundry. Newsreader was designed by Hugues Gentile and Jean-Baptiste Levée with the idea of a typeface for text on screen and long-form reading, which brings a bookish aspect to the typeface for its text versions, as used in this poster. Cabinet Grotesk, on the other hand, is a contemporary sans with a slight contrast, a typeface that has personality without taking center stage. Both of the font families are open-source [edit: Newsreader is open-source, Cabinet Grotesk is free for commercial use, but not open-source, see comments]. Another thing they have in common is the subtle design: brought together, they create a form of sophisticated simplicity in the poster that make its design “evident”. This obviousness suits Espace Adélard: a place where artists take the time to work on their art, and where art isn’t sacralized by the institution.
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Espace Adélard Saison 2021 poster
L’Obs, formerly known as Le Nouvel Observateur, is the French weekly news magazine with the widest reach. Founded in 1950, it covers all general fields of information, from domestic and international politics and economy to culture, literature and lifestyle. As of 2022, their website uses Production Type’s Newsreader as its primary identity typeface. Commissioned by Google Fonts and released in 2021, Newsreader was designed by Hugues Gentile, with contributions by Jean-Baptiste Levée and others. It was conceived as a variable font especially suitable for continuous on-screen reading, making best use of optical sizes. In its static version the family breaks down to 42 styles. The website of L’Obs uses Newsreader for headlines, lead-ins and quotes, in styles from the Text (16pt) and Display (72pt) sizes. Across the vast online presence of L’Obs including its various subbrands and spinoffs, Newspaper is paired with various other typefaces. In the images of the main site shown here, we get to see Jonny Pinhorn’s sans serif Karla and Vernon Adams’s narrow Oswald. The current logo was introduced already in 2014 and is a custom design by Serge Ricco.
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L’Obs website
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2021-03-05Team
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About the designers
Hugues Gentile
Designer
Hugues Gentile is a type designer and font developer. He is an instructor at the EsadType Amiens postgraduate program.
Jean-Baptiste Levée is a type designer with a strong focus on corporate and bespoke typefaces.
Jean-Baptiste Levée
CEO, founder
Jean-Baptiste Levée (1981) has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion and media. He is the founder of the independent foundry Production Type.
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