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[Contact]

174 rue de Crimée
75019 Paris [FR]
+33(0)6 61 81 09 18
info@simonrenaud.fr

[Social]

[Internship]

There are no internship positions available for now.

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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.

[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]

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)

[Workshops] More

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)
2014 ➝ Bras de lecture – ESAL (Metz, FR)
2014 ➝ Tête de lecture – ésad (Amiens, FR)
2014 ➝ L’Œil électrique – ECV (Aix, FR)
2014 ➝ Dédales et lecture par… – La Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)
2014 ➝ L’Écriture sous influence – ECV (Bordeaux, FR)
2013 ➝ Drawing by Numbers – ECV (Bordeaux, FR)
2012 ➝ Le Monde nous appartient – La Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)
2012 ➝ Le Langage du corps – ECV (Nantes, FR)
2011 ➝ Double sens – ECV (Nantes, FR)
2011 ➝ Ne pas plier ! – La Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)
2011 ➝ Play… A Four Letter Word – ECV (Paris, FR)

[Articles]

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

[Teaching]

2015-16 ➝ Teaching at ésad (Amiens, FR) one semester
2014-15 ➝ Teaching at ésad (Amiens, FR) one semester
2006-10 ➝ Teaching at the Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, FR)

[Clients]

CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), Libération, France Culture, Dazed & Confused, HEAR (Haute École des Arts du Rhin), Arte, Kiblind, Tim Paris, Musiques Volantes, Marketing Music, Ivan Smagghe, Météo France, la Licra, Standard magazine, Néon (galerie d’art contemporain), Élia Medical

[Featured in] Selected

Nichons-nous dans l’internet #3, Étapes: #224 (Pyramyd), Kiblind #38, Type Only (Unit Editions), Après/Avant #2 and #3 (Rencontres de Lure), It’s Nice That, Lettres type (Ypsilon), Slanted #19, Typoholic (Viction:ary), Eight:48 #8, Kiblind #39, Los Logos 6 (Gestalten), Designers Universe (Sandu Publishing Co), Slanted #14, Étapes: #191 (Pyramyd)

[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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Title:

Véronique Pêcheux

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2016
Paris (FR)
Véronique Pêcheux
Website
Html, Css, JavaScript
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AVA
www.veroniquepecheux.com

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AVA
Typeface

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2013
Paris (FR)
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Type Design
OTF
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Work in Progress
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About: AVA is a typeface came from the impulse of draw a classical geometry typeface and do a reference to monospace.

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Millimetre

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2016
Paris (FR)
Velvetyne Type Foundry
Exhibition, Poster
60 ✕ 80 cm
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–
www.velvetyne.fr

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1 ✕ 1 ✕ 1

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2016
Paris, Lyon (FR)
Kiblind
Exhibition
7 ✕ 1 ✕ 1 m
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Anamorphosis Square
Kiblind
Anamorphosis (In Use)

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Cipher C
Typeface

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2016
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Ciphers Typeface (Project)

About: Playing with the readability of the sign, the font was designed for playing with the encoded/decoded dichotomy. It can be displayed in two ways ; the first letters glued to one another (without letter-spacing and leading) forming a “pixelated matter” and the second in adding spaces between letters , revealing a readable text.

Plaintext:

ciphertext:

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Botox

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2016
Paris (FR)
Libération
Photography
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Véronique Pêcheux
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Article

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Cipher B
Typeface

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2016
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Ciphers Typeface (Project)

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Vendetta

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2016
Lyon (FR)
Kiblind
Poster
A2
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Cipher B
Kiblind Shop

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Cypherpunk

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2016
Paris (FR)
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Buttons
2,5 mm
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Cypherpunk's Manifesto

About: “A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes – Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world…”

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France Culture

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2016
Paris (FR)
France Culture
Pictogram
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www.franceculture.fr

France Culture Maison de la Radio Simon Renaud

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Proteus

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2015
Paris (FR)
Kiblind and Europeanlab
Photography
—
Véronique Pêcheux
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europeanlab.com

Proteus Kiblind Europeanlab Simon Renaud

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Title:

Elementary
H
Typeface

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2015
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Use for Neon galery identity uptate

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Néon

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2015
Lyon (FR)
Néon
Identity
Flyers (digital and print), Signage
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Elementary H
www.chezneon.fr

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Griffo da Bologna

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2015
Urbino (IT)
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Exhibition, Poster
60 ✕ 80 cm
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Elementary G
ISIA Urbino

About: Exhibition about Francesco Griffo da Bologna at ISIA Urbino (Higher Institute for Artistic Industries) in Italy

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x, y, z

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2015
Metz (FR)
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Exhibition
Sculpture, Posters,
3D animation
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Anamorphosis
Galerie Toutouchic
Anamorphosis (In Use)

(fig.1, 2 and 6) ©Sebastien Grisey

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Title:

x, y, z

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2015
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Photography, Poster
60 x 80 cm
Véronique Pêcheux
Anamorphosis
Anamorphosis (In Use)

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Title:

16 Segments
Writer

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2014
Paris (FR)
Kiblind
Other
20 ✕ 26 cm
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Elementary F
www.kiblind-store.com
video

About: For the #50, Kiblind decide to invite fifty artists for customize its white cover. Creating Live at “La Gaîté lyrique” (made with lazer cut).

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Between
Two Mirrors

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2014
Paris (FR)
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Photography
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Véronique Pêcheux
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www.betweentwomirrors.net

About: From the science-fiction film industry to video games, the human figure is integrated into digital environments. Scanning devices become the interface, the newest way to decompose and record in order to represent the human shape and volume. Questioning our relation to biology and especially our relationship with space and…
More

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Consigne à vie
& L’heure de tous
Arman

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2014
Paris (FR)
CNAP (Centre national
des arts plastiques)
Publishing
11,5 ✕ 17 cm (88 pages)
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—
www.cnap.fr

About: This collection of publication aims to trace the history of the project from the command to installation. The #2 is dedicated to «L’Heure de tous» and «Consigne à vie» of Arman.

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2014
Lyon (FR)
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Poster
60 ✕ 80 cm (100 ex.)
Cipher A
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www.chezneon.fr

About: Poster made for the exhibition “Contre-Mesure” at Néon.

Plaintext: “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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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…”

(fig.1, 2, 3 and 4) Exhibition View ©Anne Simonnot / Néon, 2014

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Cipher A
Typeface

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2014
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Ciphers Typeface (Project)

Plaintext:

ciphertext:

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Lo-Fi
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2014
Paris (FR)
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Type Design
OTF
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Work in Progress
Lo-Fi (in use)

About: The idea for “Lofi” originally comes from radar software signs. The drawing is based on this first inspiration. The development of this sans serif police is influenced by two ideas.
1: Lo-fi’s design origin comes from a soft ware radar font.
2: Lo-fi refers to the digital world, and especially software and signage (ex: screen led display).

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Lo-Fi Extreme
Typeface

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2014
Paris (FR)
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Type Design
OTF
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Work in Progress
Lo-Fi (in use)

About: To complete the family character, a new version is added to optimize the character in extreme conditions (small or poor resolution). This version creates a gradation in the family and allows a variation of choices depending on the viewing conditions. To optimize the character for a passage on screen: the contra-open forms, some curves become straight and endings become straight.

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La chambre
de Faraday

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2014
Lyon (FR)
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Exhibition
Flag, Books, Posters, K7
Jérémie Nuel
Lofi
www.mademoiselle-major.com

About: The productions proposed in this white card are the result of a compulsive archiving symbol streams flowing continuously on process networks “chamber Faraday is a playful proposal to hear the noise of the world and grasp the textual material constantly changing.”
More[FR]

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Le défi du soleil
Gérard Garouste

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2013
Paris (FR)
CNAP (Centre national
des arts plastiques)
Publishing
11,5 ✕ 17 cm (88 pages)
Jérémie Nuel
—
www.cnap.fr

About: This collection of publication aims to trace the history of the project from the command to installation. The #1 is dedicated to «Le défi du soleil» of Gérard Garouste.

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x,y,z

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2013
Chicago (US)
Chicago Design Museum
Exhibition, Poster, photography
40 ✕ 60 cm
Véronique Pêcheux
Anamorphosis
http://chidm.com

About: Poster displayed during the exhibition Re/view at the Chicago Design Museum

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Dancers
Tim Paris

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2014
London (UK)
My Favorite Robot
Album Cover, photography
31,5 ✕ 31,5 cm, 14 ✕ 12,5 cm
Jérémie Nuel
and Véronique Pêcheux
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My Favorite Robot

About: Development of the visual system for the first release album of Tim Paris.

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Anamorphosis
Typeface

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2014
Paris (FR)
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Type Design
OTF
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Work in Progress
Anamorphosis (In Use)

About: “Anamorphosis” is a contemporary Blackletter typeface drawing in a 3D grid but stay close to a Textura drawing. The project begins by a desire to draw a blackletter, in a contemporary interpretation. The idea of geometrically rationalizing blackletter inscriptions became something interesting at the time of the three dimensional computer-generated imagery.

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Néon

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2013
Lyon (FR)
Néon
Identity
Logo
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Elementary H
www.chezneon.fr

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Néon

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2013
Lyon (FR)
Néon
Identity
Flyers (digital and print), Signage and Sign Design
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—
www.chezneon.fr

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Néon

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2016
Lyon (FR)
Néon
Website
Html, Css, JavaScript
Francis Josserand
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www.chezneon.fr

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D.A.T.A.

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2014
Minneapolis (USA)
Ficciones-Typografika
Exhibition, Poster
60,96 ✕ 91,44 cm
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Elementary E
ficciones-typografika

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Elementary
A
Typeface

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2011
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
Jérémie Nuel
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Use for “A few more things from Ivan Smagghe (and Friends)”

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Elementary
B
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2012
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
Jérémie Nuel
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Use for “Entre – Issue 1”

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Elementary
C
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2012
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Use for “Véronique Pêcheux”

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Elementary
D
Typeface

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2012
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
Jérémie Nuel
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Use for “HEAR Graduation Show”

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Title:

Elementary
E
Typeface

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2013
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
Jérémie Nuel
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Use for “Ficciones Typografika”

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Elementary
F
Typeface

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2014
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Use for “Kiblind Cover”

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Elementary
G
Typeface

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2015
Paris (FR)
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Sign Design
OTF
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Use for “Francesco Griffo Exhibition” at ISIA Urbino (Higher Institute for Artistic Industries) in Italy

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Hotel
Benjamin Nuel

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2012
Paris (FR)
ARTE & Lardux
Identity
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Jérémie Nuel
Lofi
hotel.arte.tv

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Hotel
Benjamin Nuel

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2012
Paris (FR)
ARTE & Lardux
Website
Html, Css, JavaScript
Jérémie Nuel
Lofi
hotel.arte.tv

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HEAR
Graduation Show

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2012
Strasbourg, Mulhouse (FR)
HEAR
Itentity
Banners + Signage
+ Flyers + Invitations
Jérémie Nuel
Elementary D
www.hear.fr

About: The iconography is based on aerial photography, specifically airports and other transit points to draw a grid as a reservoir of patterns used and repeated. This is designed to allow wide variations in the arrangement of illustrations and draw typographics elements.

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HEAR
Graduation Show

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2012
Strasbourg, Mulhouse (FR)
HEAR
Publishing
24,5 ✕ 30 cm (156 pages)
Jérémie Nuel
Elementary D
www.hear.fr

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Véronique Pêcheux

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2012
Paris (FR)
Véronique Pêcheux
Website
Html, Css, JavaScript
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Both + Elementary C
www.veroniquepecheux.com

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Self-Organizing Process

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2012
Lyon (FR)
Palma Soundsystem
Other
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Twice, Twice Knot
www.palma-music.com
Bleeps and Bloops (online)

About: Participation in “Bleeps and Bloops”, a publication about new forms of music scores by computing time and the principle of sound loop .

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Both
Typeface

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2013
Paris (FR)
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Type Design
OTF
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Work in Progress
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About: Both are a typeface came from the impulse of draw a classical geometry typeface (Geometric-style faces that were popular during the 1920s and 30s) and do a reference to monospace.