Home / ATypI Copenhagen 2001
Date Friday, September 21st 2001
Venue Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark / Track A

Experimental types and atypical alphabets

Roxane Jubert

Back scan: 20th Century: type stories

It seems tht man has always been fasci­nated by writig systems. Designers and artists, particularly in the 20th century, toyed constantly with letterforms, creating innumerable alphabets which were artistic, technical, playful, and experimental. They featured all sorts of innovative alphabets, eccentric, fantastic, minimalist, decorative, geometrical, modular, illegible, etc. Most of these ranged from the historiated letter of the manuscripts to the avant-garde experi­ments.

Speaker

Roxane Jubert

Roxane Jubert is a freelance graphic designer, teacher and researcher based in Paris. She has designed CD-ROMs, stamps, books security documents and signage systems. She graduat­ed from Ecole Estienne, the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs-where she teaches typography-and the Atelier Nationale de Recherche Typographique. Currently, she is also researching for her PHD subject-history of graphic and typographic design-at the Sorbonne.