Gazette

In use: Reset the City of Hertogenbosch

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.”

Lectures + workshop in Los Angeles

After a week in Seattle, Jean François was invited in Los Angeles. The welcome was fantastic. Kali Nikitas, Chair of the Communication Arts department at Otis College of Art and Design concocted a short program including a typeface workshop, a critic session in the type design program…

Trip to the KABK

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. I heard of the 28 January 2012 open day and decided to go, armed with my little Renault Clio, my camera and my curiosity for everything related to the design of letters.

Angie Sans goes Pro

Designed in 1998, first released in 1994, Angie Sans offers itself a new youth and become Pro for your pleasure. At the time the design was created by hands on tracing paper. Few months later, the one weight font was submitted to the Morisawa Awards and won the Brattinga prize in 1990.

Lectures in Seattle

Jean François Porchez Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, February 15, 2012

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.

Few images from the exhibit Typography in all its forms

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.

Typofonderie changes

Redesigning a website is never a small detail. It started in May 2011, when I asked to Tim Brown and Jason Santa Maria for suggestions:

I have just the folks you should talk to, some good friends of ours at Paravel I’ve worked with them on numerous projects, and they are fast, intelligent, and very good. I highly recommend them!