ZeCraft website launch!
Co-founded by Jean François Porchez, ZeCraft is the parallel activity of Typofonderie, with a team of highly skilled and creative designers specialized in typographic design. We’re happy to announce the launch of the ZeCraft website!
Jean François Porchez speaking at #qved 2014 Munich
Organized by Typographic Society Munich (TGM), the second Editorial Design Conference held in Munich, Germany from the 28 February to 3 March 2014. Jean François Porchez is invited to join a large panel of speakers from all over the world. Under the title, Typefaces as voice of branding and publications he will present various typefaces projects.
Jean François Porchez inaugurated knock knock sessions at Futurebrand Paris
To push the creative team of Futurebrand Paris, the design agency just launched the Knock Knock session. The first speaker was Jean François Porchez, who came to talk about the role of typography in branding and communication. The Futurebrand team was enthusiastic following the two hours spent together.
Parisine helps Parisians catch the right bus
Over the past years, LEDs displays have been implemented on buses all over the world. Generally the typefaces on such displays were provided by manufacturers without any care about legibility and design. The users of buses suffered of the situation, and RATP decided to resolve the situation.
Pecha Kucha Vol. 19: Jean François Porchez
As part of the Observeur du design 13, a Pecha Kucha session is organized during which 10 designers will present a project. For ZeCraft, Jean François Porchez will present the project Parisine Girouette, Labeled Design Observer 13.
Retiro: Letter.2 winning typeface 2011
After winning several type awards during the past months, Retiro was just selected as one of 53 entries out of 561 submissions based on their design excellence during letter.2 competition organized by ATypI in 2011.
New bespoke typeface announced in CB News
The summer edition of CB News provides an example of the new bespoke typeface we have delivered recently to Yves Saint Laurent Parfums.
AW Conqueror featured at The Case and Point
AW Conqueror free fonts
We should recall that a paper collection is generally based on similar roots, with various ?flavors,? colors. A collection of typefaces should reflect this similar mood, even the style of papers should be reflected into the fonts. Each of the members try their best to be different from the others because of their features. They should work harmoniously in contrast.
Pèlerin magazine redesign use Typofonderie fonts
In June 2010, a new design conducted by Marc Guillon for the Pèlerin magazine was launched. This redesign feature Typofonderie fonts and new nameplate designed by Jean François Porchez.
For text and some subhead, headlines, Mencken typeface originally designed for the Baltimore Sun was used in order to improve readability of the content. Along various sizes cut of Mencken, a new sanserif specially created for this redesign appear.