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Type and publishing research.
Research carried out at art school, between type design, publishing and code. It still shapes the way I design.
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Revue Exercice Reading and research platform for the journal Web 2022
The reading and research platform of Exercice, a journal exploring society through architecture and urbanism: article reading, a content explorer and navigation by issue.
An Exercice article in reading mode
Issue cover on the platform
Content explorer
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Post-Internet publishing MFA thesis in hybrid form Publishing · Web 2022
An MFA thesis published both as a book and online: a historical, technical and semantic analysis of the digital environment, followed by an inventory of hybrid publishing forms, between pragmatism and aesthetics.
Printed thesis spread
Printed thesis spread
Online version of the thesis
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eDGAR Research protocol on flaws in printed reproduction Type design 2021
A type research protocol on recognition, sample fluctuation, the median and vectorisation: how a letterform’s singularity survives, or not, printed reproduction. A collection app supports the protocol.
eDGAR glyph vectorisation, g and Q
eDGAR publication, spread
Sample collection app
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Ekman Typeface family: one instance per emotion Type design 2021
What role can type play in conveying emotion? Ekman offers one instance per emotion (anger, teasing, shyness…), drawn between speech and body language. Each instance varies to express how intensely the emotion is felt, with three styles tuned to screen resolutions.
Ekman specimen: upper and lower case alphabet
Ekman specimen: one emotion’s variation
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ESA identity Speculative identity for the European Space Agency (student project) Identity 2021
A speculative identity for the European Space Agency: bringing the public together around fundamental research and space exploration, with a poetic, dreamlike view of space.
ESA identity posters
Editorial applications
Signage in context
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Revue anticipée Digital sci-fi short story collection with web-to-print output Code · Publishing 2020
A digital collection of science-fiction short stories, enriched with material on environmental, technological and social issues, and printable through web-to-print.
Revue anticipée contents page
Illustrated story page
Reading a story
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Baïo Display typeface drawn from the Bayeux war cemetery headstones Type design 2019
A display typeface drawn from the headstones of the Bayeux war cemetery: crisp terminals, calligraphic counters and slightly heavy stems borrowed from humanist script. A vernacular form of the region, down to the ornate B and R alternates.
Printed Baïo specimen
Baïo specimen cover
Baïo set as running text
Full Baïo character set
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