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Curation
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In the library with Eliott Grunewald
Type designer and founder of Ornamental Title & Type Eliott Grunewald came over to spend a morning in our library. He showed us some of his favorite items and talked about his love for diverse, experimental shapes in type design.
In the library with Céline Jouandet
Amsterdam-based graphic and type designer Céline Jouandet led an excursion in our library, through her favorite typographic treasures and the books that shape her practice. Dive in as she walks us through local Dutch printing history, her spider-inspired lettering, essential reading for aspiring designers and some of the quirkiest alphabets.
In the library with Marc Armand
We invited graphic designer and art director Marc Armand into our library to pick out the type specimens, catalogues and design curiosities he loves, uses, and (only occasionally) disagrees with.
Culture
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“Dark Peignots”, the long trail of a successful design, 1937-2023
First proofings of Cassandre, 1970
The first proofs of the last typeface designed by Cassandre.
Joveneaux, La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité, ed. Charles Massin, 1950.
History of the Hershey fonts
Originally created in 1967, the “Hershey Fonts” are among the earliest digital representations of type. Their creator, Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey, was not an ordinary typeface designer – he was employed as a theoretical physicist at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, VA. Hershey’s usual work was mostly theoretical: he concerned himself with the analysis of submerged ships and their influence the waves flowing above, he calculated how liquids behave when they flow around objects, and analyzed ship hulls.
Case Study
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The world of Tuner
Debuting in the Production Type Catalog in 2018, Tuner is a versatile and expressive collection of 14 fonts that’s worth a deeper look. On first glance, it’s a clean and classic grotesque sans typeface with a modernist air and a contemporary personality, but that immediate sense of familiarity is quickly followed by a surprise sense of oddity, prompting questions like “Is that monospaced?” “What’s up with those apexes?” “How would you use that?”
The Essence of the PVC Font Family Unveiled
Connecting the Heterogeneous Dots of a Widespread Family
Notes on the release of Kessler
Kessler is the second release by Alaric Garnier at Production Type.
Pursuing the designer’s explorations in vernacular lettering, stonecarving and signpainting, Kessler is a first retail incursion into the realm of type not designed for the public space but instead for books.
Read the signal
Signal is a typeface loop that opened in 2003, that we are now able to pursue in this year 2019.
Announcements
🪧 Jean-Baptiste Levée joins the AREP x Designfax panel to talk about post-carbon wayfinding design on Oct 13th. Reserve your spot!
📣 Big Words is coming: a live, intimate night where designers say out loud what they usually keep in. Keep your eyes peeled, sign-up link will be on Instagram soon.
📖Almost here: Morgane Côme’s book on the history and revival of French sign painting lands 11 September, and it comes with a nationwide festival kicking off 18 September. Find a stop near you.
📻 Cassandre in his own letters: France Culture's “Toute une vie” traces the life of A.M. Cassandre (1901–1968) — the designer behind the Normandie and Étoile du Nord posters, the YSL logo, and the Bifur and Peignot typefaces. Listen to the podcast here.
