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sep 01 2010

Book selection at Designers books

Back in June 2010, Sébastien Hayez, the founder of Designers books—a good resource about rare & out of print books reviewed by designers—published the Jean François Porchez’s short list of favorite books about typography for beginners.

Enjoy yourself (for beginners only).

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aug 29 2010

AW Conqueror free fonts

We should recall that a paper collection is generally based on similar roots, with various “flavors,” colors. A collection of typefaces should reflect this similar mood, even the style of papers should be reflected into the fonts. Each of the members try their best to be different from the others because of their features. They should work harmoniously in contrast.

Jean François Porchez was approached at the end of 2009 by Reflex Image to create a set of typefaces to relaunch the Conqueror papers collection. An important website and various others communications material was created by the agency. The designer Seb Lester and the photographer Thomas Brown have been hired to created various visuals using Conqueror fonts.

For the first showing to the agency, we’ve created a set of fake in use pieces using the AW Conqueror fonts (at the time with a very small glyph set who explain some fake texts). The idea was to recreate a 60-70’s ambiance to clearly the set the general feeling of the typeface family.

Launched at the end of August 2010 by Arjowiggins, AW Conqueror is a family of Free fonts available at Conqueror.com website. This family include 5 variations with great potential: Small glyph sets, mostly all caps, but based on same structure, with some connection between them (width for example), to offer a great & easy titling toolbox to any designers, from skillful to beginner.

The fonts will be available at the Conqueror website for free until the 1st April 2012. The licence follow the usual commercial font licence, so you can use for any projects, but not allowed to distribute the fonts to third parties. The only difference is that you don’t have to paid for your licence. Indeed, feel free to contact us in case of specific requests about the family, such additional weights, specific needs not available on the existing set.

AW Conqueror is family created for Arjowiggins in 5 variations.
AW Conqueror pdf specimen of the AW Conqueror.

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aug 26 2010

TypeCon 2010: Follow up

^{Photo by Tipocracia, enjoy more on his Flickr page.}

Following TypeCon, you may enjoy few feedback’s tweets during the talk of jfp:

2nd day of @Typecon conference in Los Angeles: very inspiring talks, like a typeface Porchez did for Conqueror and Cholo’s graffiti.
@crystiancruz

Jean-François Porchez demonstrates how #TypeCon differs from ATypI.
@stewf

From JF. Porchez to D. Young, what a day at #typecon
@tipocracia

2nd day of @Typecon conference in Los Angeles: very inspiring talks so far, like the typeface Porchez did for Conqueror and Chaz’s graffiti.
@crystiancruz


Out soon, Porchez’s fonts for Conqueror Paper will be wildly popular — not just cuz they’ll be free — they hit nearly every pop trend.
@typographica

Presentation by Jean-François Porchez was great. I often wonder what motivates type designers to create new designs. One answer is: clients.
@nicewebtype

Enjoyed Jean François Porchez’ presentation. He has some new and interesting stuff coming out soon; available for free.
@delvew


Jean Francois Porchez is giving us a preview of his new project, Conqueror family. Brilliant.
@EricMacLeod

Client work is nourishing. It pushes you to do things you wouldn’t have thought to do or wanted to do on your own. — Jean-François Porchez
@typographica

“… it’s very different, in the same way …” — Jean François Porchez describing his flavour of Baskerville. #typecon
@splorp

The location of TypeCon 2011 has been announced… New Orleans, Louisiana.

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aug 16 2010

Design of Maclean’s nameplate in 2010

^{New Maclean’s nameplate on the 2010 cover.}

In 2009, Typofonderie was asked by Jason Logan in charge of the cover design of Canadian Business to improve their current masthead which was to be used for their upcoming redesign.

^{Maclean’s cover in 1964.}

^{Maclean’s cover in 2006.}

This time, Jason Logan teamed again with Jean François Porchez for Maclean’s cover. The idea was to recreate the 60’s version of Maclean’s nameplate. The job wasn’t so simple, as an autotrace of the original wasn’t the immediate solution. Maclean’s masthead was fully redesigned from scratch, to create the perfect balance between the open forms of the C+L and the quite heavier M+A+N diagonals letterforms. When the best form was achieved, several grades have been designed and tested, to create the best result on the cover when used with usual headlines. A good collaboration again.

^{Maclean’s 2010 masterhead designed by Jean François Porchez.}

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aug 08 2010

Gazette: Rudi Meyer wrote about Peter Keller

Rudi Meyer wrote (in french only) a piece about his longtime friend and colleague, Peter Keller (1944-2010) in the columns of the Typofonderie Gazette. On the french blog le Typographe, a biography of Peter Keller and few comments also available.

^{Photo Édouard Baudelet, Rencontres internationales de Lure.}

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