typography

Un guide théorique et pratique pour les graphistes, les auteurs, les éditeurs et les étudiants.

A true architect of text, Pierre di Sciullo takes letters on a journey to undiscovered lands. He stages typographic constructions in space, and reveals the polysemic nature of characters by blending writing and visual design. Keen to invent new reading situations, he has designed numerous typefaces including Quantange, Minimum, Gararond, Aligourane, Durmou and Maximum. The exhibition “Mot à mot” that took place during the 15th issue of the International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont, showed some of his typographic research.

Véritable outil de travail ou de découverte, ce nuancier références 225 fiches de polices de caractères. Grâce à sa forme originale, un simple coup d’œil suffit pour comparer les typographies entres-elles et trouver la perle rare. Pratique, complet et ludique, ce nuancier est LE cadeau à offrir à tous les graphistes et les passionnés de typographies !

Le Livre en lettres deals specifically with typography, because although computers provide a wide range of typographic tools, few users have true mastery of them. Typography, like any other technique, requires an apprenticeship. This book features three thematic workshops and 12 exercises (with answers) to teach you how to recognise and use typefaces. The exercises cover the ideas discussed in each chapter, and tips are provided to raise readers' awareness of the infinite possibilities that typography offers.

Etienne Robial is one of the figures to have transformed visual communication in France. He likes to describe himself as a letter-painter, and has crafted some of the most memorable visual identities and logos of recent decades (Canal+, la sept and M6). The CD-Rom given away with this book features the most important title sequences he has designed for television channels.

Typo-graphisme 2 gives a current review of the best graphic design works employing typography. The use of typography is presented in fields as diverse as digital design, editorial design or exhibition poster creation.

In the bloc notes publishing series, the practical guides to digital design explore the basic rules to master perfectly the techniques of creation in digital media. The issues in this pedagogical series bring a theoretical view and practical answers to professionals and amateurs involved in that field.

Punctuation, justification, abuse of bold and italics… Less and less applied, rarely taught, the rules of typography remain essential to a layout composition. In his “practical guide”, Damien Gauthier has organized these rules into a hierarchy to make them more accessible. He mentions the choice of characters, the silhouette of a text, the use of columns and capital letters; in other words, all the questions that a graphic designer may ask.

Pierre di Sciullo has been publishing Qui ? Résiste, a series of handbooks on a variety of subjects including the square, woman, truth, since 1983. His output is extremely varied, ranging from official commissions to the demands of commercial enterprises.