Deréon for Beyoncé
?[lettrine]D[/lettrine]eréon?:/alphabets/view/Dereon family was created in 2005 for…
Porchez Typofonderie acquire Fonderie Olive
We are proud to announce the acquisition of the Fonderie Olive. Fonderie Olive is a famous French type foundry established in Marseille, around the middle of the last century, and managed by Mr Olive, who appointed Mr Excoffon as Type director. They published many successful typefaces during their existence, such as Mistral, Banco, Choc, Vendôme, etc. This acquisition will be a renaissance for French typography, as we will digitize all the historical typefaces from the original punches provided by the widow of Mr Olive. Ultimately, typefaces like Mistral will be available as OpenType fonts with all original ligatures and alternates never published in past digital versions. Next week, the first typeface family will be launched in OpenType format, based on Antique Olive, with a special feature which digitally emulates the smell of the Provence olives.
April fool 2005
Indeed, we never acquired Fonderie Olive, but we like so much making good jokes. From various congratulations received today, it seems it worked pretty well, like last year, only few get it, such Simon Daniels at Microsoft.
Writing models in France
Last week, Jean François Porchez participated in what is called a ?colloque? in French. The event was organised by the Éducation nationale…
Pentagram choose Parisine plus
?[lettrine]H[/lettrine]ow Magazine?:http://www.howdesign.com/index.asp…
Among Typographica 2004 favorites
?Costa…
Lecture in Cambrai
Invited by Carole Boulbés, Jean François Porchez gave a lecture in Cambrai (north of France), at the ?École supérieure…
Costa Slanted
?Some comments?:http://www.slanted.de/261#comments in German about ?Costa PTF?:/alphabets/view/CostaPTF on the type blog…
Tom Grace joins PTF
[lettrine]W[/lettrine]E are happy ?to announce?:http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/news.aspx?NID=4616 that ?Tom…
Beyoncé launches House of Deréon
Last December 2004, we started a very exciting project with ?AR…