Profile Jean François Porchez
Profile
After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs custom typefaces for the Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Louis Vuitton, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris), as well as distributing internationally his retail typefaces via his typofonderie.com website. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has created a revival of the Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond in 2002.
He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale (was ATypI President in 2004–2007). He taught type design at the MA typefaces design at the Reading University (United Kingdom) and at Ensad and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Françaises, a book (in French & English) that shows all contemporary French, digital typefaces. In late 2001 he was the President of a jury set up by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale to select the new handwriting model and system for France and was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type design Contest. Founded the french community Le Typographe in 2003.
He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998. FF Angie (1990) & Apolline (1993) were prize-winning entries in the Morisawa typeface competition. Costa received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2000. Ambroise, Anisette, Anisette Petite, Charente, Le Monde Journal, & Le Monde Courrier were all prize-winning entries in the Bukva:raz international competition (2001). Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards (2006). Parisine Office won a star at the Observeur du design 07.
Awards
Club des directeurs artistiques: Palmarés 2009 Vuitton Persona selected. 04-2009.
Observeur du design 07 Parisine Office won a star at the Observeur du design 07. 10-2006.
Creative Review Type Awards 2006 Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards. 01-2006.
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.
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.
Interviews, articles
A short list of various articles and interviews avialble online.
The horizontal requirement, (etc.)
by Jack Yan. Cap online, 1995.
Une famille de caractères très complète
par Jean Daniel Fekete, 1995.
Jean François Porchez, (version Française)
by Joe Shepter. Adobe Galery, 2000 (?).
Entre signe et image.
par Sophie Quéran. Manuscrit, 2001.
dot-font: Signed, Sealed, Delivered.
by John D. Berry. Creative Pro, 2001.
Jean-Francois Porchez: A daily typeface of Le Monde.
by Bernard Guillaume. Graphis, 2001.
The ABCs of J-FP
by Petra Cern Oven. Eye magazine #72, 2001.
La création de caractères est autant affaire culturelle que commerciale.
par Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle. Les Temps typographiques, 2001.
Two quotations from Jean François Porchez
from page 63 of Designing Typefaces by David Earls, Rotovision, 2002.
Comment Jean-François Porchez a dessiné le Monde
par . Le Temps, 2003.
Typographie: les nouvelles polices de caractères
par Edward Lichtner. Caractère, 2005.
A new style
The Baltimore Sun, 2005.
Deux alphabets pour l’école
Le point de vue de Jean-François Porchez, Actes du colloques en pdf. 2005.
Entretien avec Jean François Porchez
par Jérémie Werner. Visual Evasion, 2007.
Porchez Typofonderie
FontShop News, 2007.
Abran paso a Jean François Porchez!!!
by Herminio Javier Fernandez. CuatroTipos, 2007.
Face to face, an interview with Jean François Porchez.
by John D Boardley. Ilovetypography, 2008.
Parisine dans le metro
by Yves Peters, Unzipped, 2008.
Les Henderson de Porchez Typofonderie
par Jef Tombeur. Le Typographe, 2008.
Exhibits
Chaumont 2009 Exhibit of several typeface specimens. 05/07-2009.
Type and Sich exhbition of the typeface designs of Jean François Porchez. 10/12-2005.
Un homme de caractère(s) exhbition of the typeface designs of Jean François Porchez. 03-2004.
Graphisme, 200 créateurs Showing of some work at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. 09-2001.
Typo Janchi Showing of some work at a Typographic biennale, Corée du Sud. 09-2001.
Approche by Association française d’action artistique, worldwide exhibit, 1996.
