exquisite time

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graphic
2023
A group project where each participant designed a double-page article using a different typeface. The goal was to create contrasting layouts, inspired by the idea of an exquisite corpse.

This was one of my first projects during my training, where I chose the typeface Antique Olive, created in 1962 at the Olive foundry in Marseille. I picked it less for its graphic qualities than for the story it carried and my attachment to Marseille and the south of France. Today, I would probably not make the same choice, but at that time my beginner’s naïveté became the project’s strength: I dared to break some rules, like using wave-shaped titles, while also learning the discipline of page layout.

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