You’ll love this new typeface. When Stéphane Elbaz has submited to us his Geneo in 2008, we were immediately charmed by the subtle mix of styles. Presented in ExtraLight only at the time, the potential was already latent.
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Geneo, a new design by Stéphane Elbaz
In a couple of days, we will publish the first non-porchez typeface family. When Typofonderie was launched back in the nineties, the objective was simply to distribute directly its founder’s typefaces.
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Typeface designer to come
Le Monde Sans is a sanserif based on Le Monde Journal — a practice that become commonplace from early nineties. Designed originally in 1994 for the Le Monde newspapers (they switched to standard fonts in 2005), it was expended over the years to the large family we know today. As many others members of the extensive Le Monde family, Le Monde Sans was revamped for the relaunch of Typofonderie website
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Le Monde Sans Pro and its new g
On Sunday 15 April 2012, Jean François Porchez is invited by the ECV design school for a lecture at the Lille Art Fair.
a part of the mythology of French typography The confident and keen gaze of Roger Excoffon spoke volumes; his place in French typographic and graphic design history spans generations, some rejecting his work, while others, often more recent, venerating his vision and the visual force of his work. In my beginnings, as a student at the end of the 1980s, Mistral, Banco and Choc were lumped among the tacky fonts that should only have been used for parodying the shop window of a provincial butcher, baker or hair salon
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Roger Excoffon,
Marloes van Dijk, from Studio Daad, created a book for a group of architects from their city of Hertogenbosch. They already used Parisine Plus for another project last year, and they love the typeface! The new theme was “Reset the City.” It’s about old buildings/fabrics that became useless
After a week in Seattle, Jean François was invited in Los Angeles. The welcome was fantastic
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Lectures + workshop in Los Angeles
As part of the typeface design workshop program organised up by Karen Cheng, Jean François Porchez was invited to gives three lectures during his stay in Seattle in February 2012. The first was about Sabon Next and Henderson projects, and was hosted by Geoffrey Turnovsky course about the impact of the printing press in 16th-18th-century Europe at Washington University. Another about logotypes and bespoke fonts, organised jointly by French-American chambers of commerce and Alliance Française.
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Lectures in Seattle
Few photos from the current exhibition in Paris “La typo dans tous ses états (Typography in all its forms)” have been posted. Its a collective exhibition of typographers, graphic designers and photographers, in partnership with Imprimerie nationale’s “Atelier du Livre d’art et de l’Estampe” and Graphê magazine
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Few images from the exhibit Typography in all its forms
Minutes of the open day at the KABK in The Hague (Netherlands) I am currently doing an internship at Typofonderie and passionate about drawing letters. I inquired about the courses dedicated to typography and a school caught my eye: the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten or shorter, the KABK located in The Hague Netherlands. This school offers a wide variety of courses ranging from photography, textiles to graphic design.
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Trip to the KABK
