The Centre national des arts plastiques is a public institution of the French Ministry of Culture that promotes visual art which includes for almost three decades graphic design and typography, especially with its yearly publication Graphisme en France.
The talk will focus on the projects promoting typography and type design : purchase of typefaces for the state collection (drawings, files, specimen, etc.) and commissions of typefaces : Infini by Sandrine Nugue in 2015 and Faune by Alice Savoie in 2017. It will emphasize the processes (call for application, selection, jury, publication) and the questions induced for preservation, research, curation and promotion of typography.
Véronique Marrier is head of the graphic design department at the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap). She is the editorial director of the yearly publication Graphisme en France, has contributed to the development of graphic design acquisitions and is in charge of public commissions of typefaces “Infini” and “Faune”. She has published the “Guide to commissioning graphic design” for commissioners and educational tools to raise awareness of graphic design and typography for elementary and high schools. Committed to the promotion of research, she was co-curator of the event “Graphisme en France 2014”, and has co-organised several symposium (“Graphic design, giving form to history”, “Graphic design, ways of doing research”).
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Véronique Marrier