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
The Problem Sometimes printing is legal, but making really nice books is not. I just want to make pretty hand-made hardcover books, like these: Some of my hand-bound hardcovers Using real sewn signatures like these: Sewn signatures ready to bind into a hardcover book Without becoming a criminal.
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When nice books are illegal
During the past months, several publications are escaped from our vigilance. The first of them is the Type Navigator. This book published in September 2011 is more than just a compilation of portfolio of digital typeface foundries.
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Three publications about type
Presentation of Student Projects in the Post Diploma “Typography & Language” The entrance to the ESAD in Amiens I am currently doing an internship at Typofonderie, you may have already seen the article I wrote: Escape to the KABK describing the open doors of this school. Well, once again, I took a short break in February 2012 to discover a type design course. I went to the ESAD in Amiens, the city of beets, brick walls and cold.
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Visit of the ESAD in Amiens
On Monday 19 March 2012, Jean François Porchez is invited by the ECV design school for a lecture open to everyone (free entrance). This lecture is in connection to the TDC 57 exhibit in Nantes, France.
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
Books are digital. This is not, strictly speaking, true; but it’s about to be, with a few honorable exceptions. Already today, pretty much all commercial books are produced digitally, although the end product is a physical one: ink printed on paper, then bound and marketed and sold
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