Parisian type underground
The quarries below the city of Paris have been a mirror and memorial o events for nearly 300 years, with a long tradition of writing and painting on the walls. Parisian Art Underground explores the diversity of the visual statements that successive generations have left behind in these fantastic and often phantasmoagoric images and words.
Apolline Worldwide
?Apolline?:alphabets/view/Apolline has been selected this year as…
Images from Thessaloniki Type conference
Jean François Porchez ?has posted?:http://www.porchez.com/article/139 first part of the images from ?the…
2nd International conference on Typography
From 24 to 29 June 2004, the promising ?2nd International conference on…
Sabon Next as newspaper face!
?Frankfurter Neue…
Idea magazine cover and article
As one of the designers…
El Espectador relaunch
Launched in June 2004, the Columbian newspaper ?El…
New logotype for ST Dupont
In 2003, Jean Francois Porchez redesigned the ST Dupont ?logotype?:lettering for ?Aaron…
Joe Clark back on
After a discussion started back in January 2004, Joe Clark finally put it online ?his piece?:http://blog.fawny.org/2004/05/30/valid-type/...
The value of type
While perhaps not visible to everyone, in type design there are an infinite number of ways to make variation, innovation and improvement, and opportunities to express personal preference. To a lay person the differences between typefaces might be difficult to spot, that does not mean that these differences do not exist, it does not mean that the differences are meaningless