Taking the year 1982 as a starting point, this talk will revisit the historical events that led to the construction of a pedagogy of typeface design in France over the last four decades. The presentation will be an opportunity to pay tribute to some of the key contributors of that period, and connect the dots between some of the topics addressed by other speakers during this ATypI conference.
Filiation: Nurturing a pedagogy of type design in France
Speaker
Alice Savoie
Alice Savoie is a type designer, researcher, and teacher based in Lyon, France. A graduate from École Duperré and École Estienne in Paris, she holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading (UK). Over the last 15 years, Alice has collaborated with international clients and foundries on the design of many custom typefaces. Her own typefaces include Capucine, Faune, Romain 20 and Lucette. From 2018–2021, Alice was the principal researcher on the Leverhulme-funded ‘Women in Type’ project under the direction of Prof. Fiona Ross. Alice currently teaches and supervises research projects at ANRT (Nancy, FR), Écal (Lausanne, CH), and EPHE (Paris Sorbonne). She co-edits the Pamphlet collection at Poem editions with Jérôme Knebusch.
Speaker
Thomas Huot-Marchand
Thomas Huot-Marchand lives and works in Besançon, France. After graduating in Besançon school of fine arts in 2001, he joined the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) where he studied typeface design (with Peter Keller, Jean Widmer, Hans Jurg Hunziker, André Baldinger, and Philippe Millot). He designed Minuscule, later considered as one of the “ten typefaces of the decade” (Paul Shaw, Imprint). In 2006, he spent one year as resident fellow at the Académie de France à Rome—Villa Medici. He taught graphic and typographic design in Besançon and in Amiens from 2002 to 2012. Since 2012, Thomas has been the director of the ANRT, a post-graduate research course based in Nancy. He published in 2016 the catalogue ANRT Archives, 1985-2006. He served as typographer in residency at the Hoffmitz-Milken Center for Typography in Pasadena in 2019. Since 2017, his typefaces Minuscule, Minérale, Garaje (all awarded by the TDC) and Album are distributed by 205TF.