What enigmatic relations of convergence and divergence are woven between literature and cinema? What secret devices aesthetically connect a film, its script-book and the editorial design of that book? These and other questions arise and unfold their singular charm in the pen of Paule Palacios-Dalens, an inquisitive Parisian designer equally passionate about book design, typography, literature and cinema. Her detailed tour begins with “Hiroshima Mon amour”, the famous film by Alain Resnais and scripted by Marguerite Duras. Only for equally passionate and curious readers, here is the translation of a revealing essay by Paule, originally published as “Hiroshima dans la Blanche. Marguerite Duras’s introduction to cinema” by the independent label 202 éditions, then in the French online cinema magazine Débordements. A gourmet delight for lovers of cinema, literature and design.  Read

Printed or filmed, Jean-Luc Godard’s graphic production surprises by its frequency and formal audacity. Whether inserts or credits, trailers or commercials, press kits or special issues, all of his work bears his trademark, even if his signature does not always formally attest to it. A particular facet of his graphic work here concerns his use of typefaces.  Read

The following piece is the third article in the ‘type design teaching’ series published in our blog. Jérôme Knebusch wrote this insightful text as part of the pamphlet ‘Quelques réflexions sur Pangramme : learning type design’ to accompany the Pangramme exhibition catalogue edited by the Lorraine school of fine arts, Metz.  Read

On the occasion of the second edition of the Pangramme exhibition catalog, Sébastien Morlighem was invited to contribute the present text which allows, through his personal insights, to build a photograph of the path that the pedagogy of typography has deployed in France in the last 25 years.  Read

This is the first of a series of articles on type design teaching that we will publish in our blog. Thomas Huot-Marchand, French typographer, designer, and director of ANRT (atelier national de recherche typographique / national institute for typographic research) in Nancy, France, presented, with the following text, the 2017 Chaumont edition of the exhibition Pangramme: learning type design originally assembled in 2016 at the ESAL, art school of Lorraine, Metz.  Read

Una vez establecidos los parámetros generales de nuestras cajas de texto, podemos entrar en los detalles —la filigrana, como diría uno de mis clientes—: el ajuste de los valores de justificado y, finalmente, la composición.  Read