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[About]

Simon Renaud is a Graphic designer and typographer based in Paris. He invests different media of expression of design graphics such as publishing (book, catalog, magazine, monograph, poster) typography (specific typeface design), digital media (website) and work frequently with Véronique Pêcheux to produce photographs.

He previously co-founded the collective ‘A is a name’ with Jérémie Nuel (2010-2014). He create the research project ‘Language as Symbols’, a mood board website about writing system around the world. He also involved in various schools to conduct Workshops.

[Teaching]

Since 2016 ➝ ÉSAD (Amiens, FR), DNSEP 4 & 5
Since 2016 ➝ Sorbonne Université (Paris, FR), Licence 1, 2 & 3
2014-16 ➝ ÉSAD (Amiens, FR) DNA 3 – one semester
2006-10 ➝ the Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)

[Conferences Organization ]

Fonts & Faces # 6, International Type Symposium
Conferences and Workshop — Campus Fonderie de l’Image
2019 → Let it Read
(about Reading Experience) 11/14/2018
2018 → The recent past & the immediate future
(about Typeface Automation) 11/13/2018

[Articles]

2016 ➝ l’image texte – Étapes: #231 (Pyramyd)
2015 ➝ La lettre et ses codes – Étapes: #229 (Pyramyd)

[Solo Exhibitions]

2015 ➝ x, y, z – Galerie Toutouchic (Metz, FR)
2014 ➝ Contre-mesure – Néon (Lyon, FR)
2014 ➝ La Chambre de Faraday – Mademoiselle Major (Lyon, FR)
2011 ➝ Universe Oscillation – Galerie Toutouchic (Metz, FR)
2009 ➝ Êtres Indésirables – Épicerie Moderne (Lyon, FR)

[Collective Exhibitions]

2017 ➝ Design graphique : acquisitions récentes
Muséee des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, FR)
2017 ➝ Réalité Altérée – Transient Festival at le Tetris (Havre, FR)
2016 ➝ Transient Festival at Cabaret Sauvage (Paris, FR)
2015 ➝ Illussion – Kiblind at le Sucre (Lyon, FR)
and Point Éphémère (Paris, FR)
2015 ➝ 2025 – Kiblind and European Lab at la Gaîté Lyrique (Paris, FR)
2015 ➝ The Informed Body – NODE15 (Frankfurt, DE)
2014 ➝ ficciones-typografika by Erik Brandt (Minneapolis, USA)
2013 ➝ Re/View (Work at Play) Chicago Design Museum (Chicago, US)
2011 ➝ Lettres Type (New typeface design in France)
(Nancy/Chaumont/Lurs/Caens, FR)

[Acquisition]

2017 → Acquisition of graphic works for the permanent collection
of the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris

[Workshops]

2019 → Hyper-notes – ESAL (Metz, Fr)
2018 → Plaintext – ERG (Bruxelles, BL)
2018 → Saisir – ÉSAD (Amiens) + UTC (Compiègne)
2017 → Signal/Signalement – Campus Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet)
2017 ➝ Trace/Traque – HEAR (Mulhouse, FR)
2017 ➝ Appareiller – La Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)
2016 ➝ Écran Total – Ésad (Amiens, FR)
2016 ➝ Répliquer – ECV (Bordeaux, FR)
2016 ➝ Machine à lire – La Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)
2016 ➝ U+0000 – ECV (Bordeaux, FR)
2015 ➝ Hello Words – ésad (Amiens, FR)
2015 ➝ Hands Up – ésad (Amiens, FR)
2015 ➝ Our Writing Tools are also… – Institute of Design (Vienne, AU)
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[Colophon]

Design and Programming by Simon Renaud
Photography by Véronique Pêcheux and Simon Renaud
2015 ©Simon Renaud
None of the images and texts on this site may be reproduced without permission of it author.

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Contre-Mesure
(BSoD & 5xx)

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2014
Lyon (FR)
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Exhibition
300 ✕ 600 cm, 60 ✕ 80 cm
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Cipher A
www.chezneon.fr

About: By paradigm shift, the curtain of the gallery is considered a digital display and makes it inaccessible interior spaces of the art center. The format of the curtains is redesigned and implemented to clean the digital display problematic. Both works explore (BSoD and 5xx) the basic element of the digital image, the pixel, and try to return to its abstraction.

Plaintext BSoD: “A problem as been detected”
Plaintext 5xx: “The page cannot be displayed. There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed. Please try the following: Open…”

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