Moving to a new place, filling out boxes and boxes is a good excuse to bring back old stuff found inside the cover of some books. The today images came from the glorious days before digital cameras. Few images, low quality, but fun to rediscover, especially when you still know all the people on the images today and how they are. The images have been take during ATypI 1996 conference, The Hague. Enjoy, have fun.
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Not later than 2 days ago, I’ve got this discussion with Typofonderie’s team and shared the fact that many of reputable typographers speak a perfect french. Then, today, I found back this old piece, wrote this small homage about John Dreyfus in 2002, founding member and second president of ATypI. Already more than ten years ago.
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Club des directeurs artistiques 47e Palmarès Nominee 2015, Typography category, typeface design.
Gl Bader, GL Kahn, designed by Jean François Porchez, 03-2016.
Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et Lettres (Knight in the order of Arts and Letters) 04-2015 (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication).
Club des directeurs artistiques 46e Palmarès Sélection 2014, Typography category, lettering. Air Poster for ZeCraft, designed by Jean François Porchez, 03-2015.
Club des directeurs artistiques 46e Palmarès Selection 2014, Typography category, typeface design. Anisette Anisette Petite, designed by Jean François Porchez, 03-2015.
Club des directeurs artistiques 45e Palmarès Prix 2013, Typography category, typography in use + Selection 2013, Typography category, typeface design. Sephora, designed by ZeCraft, 03-2014.
Club des directeurs artistiques 45e Palmarès Selection 2013, Typography category, typeface design. Le BHV Marais, designed by ZeCraft, 03-2014.
Club des directeurs artistiques 45e Palmarès Selection 2013, Typography category. Louis Vuitton Cabinet d’écriture, designed by ZeCraft, 03-2014.
Club des directeurs artistiques 45e Palmarès Selection 2013, Typography category, lettrages, logotypes. Louis Vuitton Script, designed by ZeCraft, 03-2014.
Tokyo TDC Tokyo Type Director Club Annual Awards 2014, Prize Nominee Work for the bespoke typeface Vuitton Cabinet d’écriture designed for Louis Vuitton Malletier, 02-2014.
Tokyo TDC Tokyo Type Director Club Annual Awards 2014, Prize Nominee Work for the bespoke typeface Singulier designed for Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, 02-2014.
Club des directeurs artistiques: 44e Palmarès Prix 2012, Typography category, typeface design. Custom typeface family Parisine Girouette for RATP, 02-2013.
Observeur du design 13 Parisine Girouette received a star (étoile) at the Observeur du design 13, APCI. 11-2012.
Granshan 2012, 5th International Non Latin Type Design Competition Display category award. Custom typeface Retiro for Madriz magazine, 06-2012.
Club des directeurs artistiques: 43e Palmarès Prix 2011, Typography category, typeface design. Custom typeface family Singulier for Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, 04-2012.
Club des directeurs artistiques: 43e Palmarès Nominee 2011, Typography category, logotype. The Independent Magazine logotype for The Independent Magazine, 04-2012.
Club des directeurs artistiques: 43e Palmarès Selected 2011, Typography category, logotype. Abigail Borg logotype for Abigail Borg, 04-2012.
Letter.2 prize 2011, among the 53 entries out of 561 submissions based on their design excellence. 11-2011.
Ed-Awards: Silver Award winner in category 25. Original Typeface of the European Design Awards 2011. 05-2011.
Club des directeurs artistiques: 42e Palmarés Prix 2010 Custom typeface family AW Conqueror for Arjowiggins via ReflexImage, 04-2011.
Creative Review Type Annual Custom typeface Retiro for Madriz magazine: Best in Book 2011, 02-2011.
Designpreis 2011 Nominee Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011: Custom typeface Retiro Nominee for 2011, 06-2010.
Club des directeurs artistiques: 41e Palmarés Prix 2009 for the custom typeface Retiro. 03-2010.
Tdc2 2010 Certificate of Type design Excellence for the custom typeface Retiro, 3-2010.
I Love Typography selected Allumi as 2009 favourite font. 01-2010.
Club des directeurs artistiques: Palmarés 2009 Vuitton Persona selected. 04-2009.
Observeur du design 07 Parisine Office received a star at the Observeur du design 07, APCI. 10-2006.
Creative Review Type Awards 2006 Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards. 01-2006.
Our Favourite Typefaces of 2004
Costa PTF among the typefaces chosen as Our Favourite Typefaces of 2004 by the on-line journal Typographica. 12-2005.
Bukva:raz Certificate of Type design Excellence (International Type design competition, NY-Moscow) for the following typefaces Anisette, Anisette Petite, Ambroise, Ambroise Firmin, Ambroise François, Charente, Le Monde Journal, Le Monde Courrier. 11-2001.
Trophée d’or de la typographie Bienvenue was nominated. 02-2001.
Tdc2 2000 Certificate of Type design Excellence (Type Director Club de New York) for the custom typeface Costa, 1-2000.
Charles Peignot award 1998, 10-1998 (ATypI).
Eda Design Excellence Award (European Design Annual 1998-99) for the Le Monde type specimen, 9-1998.
Tdc 44 Typographic Excellence Award 1997 (Annual Type Director Club Awards 44) for the Le Monde type specimen, 7-1998.
Morisawa Awards 1993 Special merit award (concours international de création de caractères ; Japon) with Apolline roman and italic.
Morisawa Awards 1990 Brattinga Honnor Prize (concours international de création de caractères ; Japon) with the first version of Angie typeface.

Top line: Sabon Next LT with alternate q and Sabon Next LT; Bottom line: Sabon Italic compared to Sabon Next LT Italic all kerned.
For some people, the finish of Sabon Next perhaps looks similar to Adobe Garamond, but if you set texts, the result is quite different, because the structure is not the same. Adobe Garamond looks to be wide and round when Sabon Next looks narrow and strict.
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Published in 1998, for ATypI conference in Lyons, France, Lettres Françaises is still available from what this page report. This book is bilingual: French-English. Many french typefaces are presented on this book, along with various essays and a list of most of the typefaces created in France during the century.
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