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About > Activities

Teaching / Workshops

2023

  • Libre typography, École de design de Nantes (Nantes, France)
    Mariel Nils, Océane Juvin, Manon Van der Borght

2022

  • Sweet Picnic, Allee du Kaai  (Bruxelles, Belgium)
    Océane Juvin, Mariel Nils

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

Talks / Masterclasses

2023

  • MIG, with Adel Faure for the launch of JGS font, broadcasted on teh great radio p-node (La Générale, Paris)

2021

  • Libre Échange, ESAD Orléans (Orléans, France)
  • La Véritable histoire de Velvetyne, Les Gobelins (Paris, France)

2018

2017

  • Who/What/Where/When/Why, a talk at HfG Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany)
    followed by a masterclass to the students of the type design class on the stakes of monaging an type foundry.
    Frank Adebiaye and Jérémy Landes.
  • Polices de France : a cross talk with Benoît Bodhuin at Le Monte en L’Air (Paris, France)
    Raphaël Bastide, Jérémy Landes and Lucas le Bihan
  • Talk for Papier Brûlant at the Gaîté Lyrique (Paris, France)
    Anton Moglia, Manon Van der Borght (Hypsoline), Julien Imbert

2016

  • Talk for AFK #5, Le Tank (Paris, France)
    Julien Imbert, Raphaël Bastide and Jérémy Landes

2013

2012

  • Talk for the Typocamp #1 (La Cantine, Paris)
    Jérémy Landes

2011

Exhibitions

2019

  • The World’s Best Typography: The 65th Annual Exhibition of the Type Directors Club
    (Cooper Union, New York, USA — Takeo’s Gallery, Tokyo, Japan — PJATK, Varsovie, Ukraine — ECV Lille, France)
  • Flags at Fig. Liège Festival (Liège, Belgium)
  • Creative Exchange, Le Murmure, Red Dot Design Museum (Essen, Germany)

2018

  • Exhibition of the Red Dot design awards winners: Le Murmure, Communication Museum (Berlin, Germany)
  • All Fonts look the same (Wellington, New Zealand)
    An exhibition of 260 fonts; celebrating uniquely restricted shapes with an almost endless amount of variation.
  • Flags at Fig. Liège Festival (Liège, Belgium)
    We were invited to draw a Velvetyne flag for the Fig. flags exhibition.

2017

  • Trickster launch exhibition, La Générale (Paris, France)
    With Posters from Lucas Le Bihan (Dreams Office), Félicité Landrivon, AAAAA Atelier, Lionel Michée (Studio Feed), Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Jérémy Landes (Studio Triple), Anton Moglia, Théo Guillard, Murmure, Raphaël Bastide, Gaëtan Baehr, Lauren Coullard + Julien Imbert, Sébastien Hayez and Martin Desinde.
  • Hyper Chapelle, with AAAAA Atelier (Parvis de la Cathédrale de Metz, France)
    The exhibition for the one the Hyper Scrypt typeface has been designed. Interactive installation, posters, typeface.
  • Solide Mirage launch exhibition (La Maroquinerie, Paris, France)

2016

2013

  • Iinteractive installation for the launch of Kiblind Magazine (Point Éphémère, Paris, France)

Publications

2019

  • Graphisme en France, Étapes №249

2018

  • Slanted Magazine n° 31, Étapes №244, Red Dot Design Yearbook, itsnicethat.com

2017

2016

2015

  • Actualitte.com

2014

  • Fontemporary Magazine

2013

  • Kiblind №44, Après/Avant

Awards

2023

  • 2023 : TDC Awards - Type Design for Lithops by Daytona Mess - Anne-Dauphine Borione

2020

2019

2018

Salons

2023

  • Format(s), Graphic Design festival (Strasbourg, France)

2022

  • Format(s), Graphic Design festival (Strasbourg, France)

2019

2018

  • Puces Typo #8 at Campus de la Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)

2017

2016

  • Puces Typo #6 at Campus de la Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)

2014

  • Puces Typo #4 at Campus de la Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)

2013

  • Puces Typo #3 at Campus de la Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)

2012

  • Puces Typo #2 at Campus de la Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)
  • Zurich Font Market (Zurich, Switzerland)

2011

  • Puces Typo #1 at Campus de la Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)