Vox par Vox
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Éditeur, illustrateur, typographe, graveur, traducteur, journaliste... Véritable homme-orchestre, Maximilien Vox (1894-1974) a fait du livre et de l’imprimé la grande affaire de sa vie. Sa virtuosité et sa curiosité, à nulles autres pareilles, le placent parmi les grandes figures des arts graphiques et de l’édition. Si tous les amateurs connaissent le nom de Vox pour la(...)
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Éditeur, illustrateur, typographe, graveur, traducteur, journaliste... Véritable homme-orchestre, Maximilien Vox (1894-1974) a fait du livre et de l’imprimé la grande affaire de sa vie. Sa virtuosité et sa curiosité, à nulles autres pareilles, le placent parmi les grandes figures des arts graphiques et de l’édition. Si tous les amateurs connaissent le nom de Vox pour la classification des caractères typographiques qui porte son nom, si certains l’associent aux Rencontres de Lure qu’il a fondées et où défile depuis 1952 la fine fleur du métier – Excoffon, Knapp, Frutiger, Massin, Carson, Scher, Robial et tant d’autres –, beaucoup ne mesurent pas l’ampleur de son oeuvre. Dans ses mémoires, restés jusqu’ici inédits, il revient sur cinquante ans d’édition, de créations visuelles et typographiques, sur les grands moments de sa vie, comme la Résistance et la libération de Paris, mais aussi sur ses rencontres dans les milieux très divers qu’il a fréquentés.
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A meaningful order: OK-RM
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Across its 328 pages it holds a new history of the distributed realities of design. It depicts designed objects on their own terms to give an account of vision, material, and curiosity—representing a selection of the vast archive of more than 16 years of work from OK-RM through an orchestration of the lithographic process with a special set of colours. It is a site for(...)
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July 2025
A meaningful order: OK-RM
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Across its 328 pages it holds a new history of the distributed realities of design. It depicts designed objects on their own terms to give an account of vision, material, and curiosity—representing a selection of the vast archive of more than 16 years of work from OK-RM through an orchestration of the lithographic process with a special set of colours. It is a site for committed study and experimentation, away from the structures of academe. It generates examples, prototypes, and models. It stages a dialogue rendered in a designerly writing through 26 alphabetised chapters (A–Z). It is unashamedly performative in its play with language, direction, and story. It captures the ongoing, open-ended conversation between the editors, who are makers and thinkers of design, including a long form discussion in the form of an interview with long term collaborator Jack Self and is introduced by poet Lila Matsumoto. In this social arena, the book is considered as everyday object and object of art. It examines designed objects and their meanings, which emerge from the interplay of form and context. What does it do? Why does it do it? How does it do it? It lays out new ideas about how designed objects relate to the cultures that they are borne from and the cultures they can create. It strives for transparency, but not at the cost of transcendence.
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Karel Martens: Unbound
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Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, bringing together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades long career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted and juxtaposed with elements found around his studio, the book balances between being an artist book and a(...)
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Unbound accompanies Karel Martens’ first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, bringing together a wide-ranging body of work Karel made and collected over the entire span of his decades long career. Containing works from the show, collaged, overprinted and juxtaposed with elements found around his studio, the book balances between being an artist book and a catalog. “This publication, thoughtfully designed by Jordi de Vetten and Susu Lee in close collaboration with Martens himself, functions as a handbook to his work. But it’s an unconventional one: unstructured, non-hierarchical, playful, personal, and associative.” With texts by Thomas Castro, curator of the exhibition and Rein Wolfs, director of the Stedelijk Museum.
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A tear-off calendar for 2026 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!
Karel Martens Calendar 2026: every day is a new day
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A tear-off calendar for 2026 by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. For each day of the year, Martens has created a unique arrangement, originally constructed using his signature method of printing letterpress monoprints from found metal forms, and then digitized to comprise 365 compositions in total. Every day is a new day!
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''Freinet Techniques'' is a project by graphic designer Paul Gangloff. It aims to publish a selection of texts written, typeset and printed by children on the presses of the Freinet schools between the 1920’s and 1980’s. Reproduced from the archives of the association les Amis de Freinet, the children’s texts are accompanied by three essays by graphic designer César(...)
Graphic Designers, Monographs
January 2024
Freinet techniques / Techniques Freinet
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''Freinet Techniques'' is a project by graphic designer Paul Gangloff. It aims to publish a selection of texts written, typeset and printed by children on the presses of the Freinet schools between the 1920’s and 1980’s. Reproduced from the archives of the association les Amis de Freinet, the children’s texts are accompanied by three essays by graphic designer César Rogers, artist and researcher Marie Preston and Gangloff. The essays make a link between the ideological framework of the Freinet techniques and contemporary practices of graphic design, literacy and co-creation.
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''Constructive Clarity: Max Bill and His Time, 1940–1952'', the second installment of art historian Angela Thomas’s multivolume biography, continues her meticulous exploration of the life and work of the influential artist. Max Bill was undoubtedly one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century––a designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic designer,(...)
Constructive clarity: Max Bill and his time
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''Constructive Clarity: Max Bill and His Time, 1940–1952'', the second installment of art historian Angela Thomas’s multivolume biography, continues her meticulous exploration of the life and work of the influential artist. Max Bill was undoubtedly one of the most versatile artists of the twentieth century––a designer, painter, sculptor, architect, graphic designer, typographer, writer, curator, teacher, and politician––who influenced generations of artists. Picking up where the first volume left off,Thomas turns her attention to Bill’s life during World War II, exploring the ground-breaking artistic and intellectual networks to which Bill belonged: from his time at the Bauhaus in Dessau to his connections with the Parisian avant-garde and his lifelong friendship with Georges Vantongerloo. His importance as a writer, publisher, and exhibition organizer comes to the fore in this volume, as does his crucial influence on the development of Concrete art in South America and his active interest in urban planning and postwar reconstruction. contexts in which he worked.
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Z comme Zahnd
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Gérald Zahnd, né en Suisse, Montréalais depuis 1964, a été l’affichiste le plus prolifique sur la scène théâtrale montréalaise de la fin des années 1960 aux années 1980. Le Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, le Théâtre Populaire du Québec, le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde et surtout le Théâtre du Rideau Vert ont fait appel à ses talents.? Parallèlement, Zahnd crée des centaines(...)
Z comme Zahnd
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Gérald Zahnd, né en Suisse, Montréalais depuis 1964, a été l’affichiste le plus prolifique sur la scène théâtrale montréalaise de la fin des années 1960 aux années 1980. Le Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, le Théâtre Populaire du Québec, le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde et surtout le Théâtre du Rideau Vert ont fait appel à ses talents.? Parallèlement, Zahnd crée des centaines de programmes, de rapports, de dépliants publicitaires, de logos, de présentations graphiques en tous genres, pour le théâtre, le cinéma et l’audiovisuel, et le monde des affaires.
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Typography
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Since the 70s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 60s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected this renewal in his own work. Weingart teaches his students to learn from their own experiments and experiences. Countless(...)
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Since the 70s Wolfgang Weingart has exerted a decisive influence on the international development of typography. In the late 60s he instilled creativity and a desire for experimentation into the ossified Swiss typographical industry and reflected this renewal in his own work. Weingart teaches his students to learn from their own experiments and experiences. Countless designers have been inspired by his teaching at the Basle School of Design and by his lectures. In "Typography" Weingart gives an unusual and frank narrative of his early life and development as a designer. For the first time he gives a comprehensive survey of his works over the past forty years, most of which are unknown.
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December 1999, Baden
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"Soak Wash Rinse Spin" investigates the cycles of the Tolleson Design creative process through a textual and graphic layering of information involving four phases: research (the intake of as much information as they can gather), collaboration (with the client and with the(...)
Soak wash rinse spin : Tolleson Design
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"Soak Wash Rinse Spin" investigates the cycles of the Tolleson Design creative process through a textual and graphic layering of information involving four phases: research (the intake of as much information as they can gather), collaboration (with the client and with the other members of the creative team), visual exploration (the workbook process, which includes refinements and the examination of multiple options), and environmental influences (consideration of the ultimate purpose of the solution). Tolleson Design, located in San Francisco since its inception in 1984, produces corporate and product identity, annual reports, web and interactive design, packaging, and environmental graphics for a broad client base that includes Kodak, Nike, Microsoft, Virgin Interactive, Urban Outfitters, and the San Francisco Ballet. Their work has appeared in design publications such as Communication Arts, Graphis, and I.D. Magazine, and has received hundreds of awards.
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November 1999, New York
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Roman Cieslewicz
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S'il fallait caractériser, vite, le talent de ce surdoué polonais émigré en France dès 1963, c'est le mot «jaillissement» qui s'imposerait tant son œuvre témoigne, dès ses débuts, d'une effervescence de l'imagination servie par une surprenante aisance à manier les signes graphiques, lettres et couleurs incluses, des signes qu'il mène à un point d'exaspération d'une(...)
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S'il fallait caractériser, vite, le talent de ce surdoué polonais émigré en France dès 1963, c'est le mot «jaillissement» qui s'imposerait tant son œuvre témoigne, dès ses débuts, d'une effervescence de l'imagination servie par une surprenante aisance à manier les signes graphiques, lettres et couleurs incluses, des signes qu'il mène à un point d'exaspération d'une stupéfiante efficacité. Ses noirs cernent rigoureusement le propos, ses rouges font flamber la page. Les directeurs de communication et ceux de la presse illustrée ne s'y sont pas trompés qui l'ont chargé de donner à leurs produits une image de modernité et d'extrême spécificité. Affiches de cirques et d'opéras, de musées et de films, campagnes publicitaires, logotypes et alphabets, photomontages et collages, tout lui est bon à démontrer, avec une audace parfaitement contrôlée, son exceptionnelle virtuosité.
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