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Alice Savoie and Jérôme Knebusch have edited between 2020 and 2025 ten essays by Jérôme Knebusch, Sébastien Morlighem, Riccardo Olocco, Dan Reynolds, Éloïsa Pérez, EESAB Type, Yoann De Roeck, François Chastanet, Julien Van Anholt in the Poem Pamphlets collection. The screenprinted box, white on black paper, assembles them.

Title
Poem Pamphlets 1-10
Date
2025
Type
Editorial design, Research
Client
Poem
Place
Frankfurt am Main
Material
Pamphlets, box
Screenprint
f+h Siebdruck, Maintal
Box
Gümblein Papierverarbeitung, Heusenstamm
Publisher
Poem

Poem Pamphlets 1-10, Poem, Frankfurt am Main, 2020-2025. Edited by Alice Savoie & Jérôme Knebusch.

Custom all-caps typeface in medium weight, used throughout the museum's documents and announcements. The nearby, recently restored Villa Majorelle uses the typeface as well for its signage. The typeface gathers different Art Nouveau forms found in architecture, furniture or art and transposes them into one harmonizing design. It is further is characterized by wide capitals in many variants. The six styles (Crocus, Dahlia, Gingko, Nenuphar, Rose, Thistle) are arranged from the most quiet to the most expressive letter­forms. Designed with Philippe Tytgat. Graphic design by Lab.Leblond.Tytgtat, Nancy. The typeface was later extended to minuscules in diverse weights, and published by Poem as a full retail type family in 2022.

Title
Nouveau
Date
2018–2020
Type
Type design
Client
Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy
Place
Nancy
Material
Custom typeface
Award
Type Directors Club 2023
Publication
Poem

Nouveau, custom typeface, Musée de l’Ecole de Nancy, w/ Philippe Tytgtat, Nancy, 2018-2020. Graphic design Lab.Leblond.Tytgtat.

Poster of the Hubba Bubba collage by Jérôme Knebusch (2010, from the Biography series) greatly enlarged and screenprinted by renowned printer Lézard Graphique, Brumath (F). At the occasion of the Aux petits bonheurs poster exhibition in Crest (F), 2020. Limited edition of 10 copies, signed and numbered. The unsigned copies were pasted in the streets of Crest.

Title
Hubba Bubba
Date
2020
Type
Artworks
Client
Centre d'Art de Crest
Place
Crest
Material
Poster, collage
Limited edition
Poem
Screenprint
Lézard Graphique, Brumath

Hubba Bubba, Centre d'Art de Crest, 2020. Published by Poem.

Editorial design of the Pangramme: learning type design catalogue, published by ESAL Metz, 2016. The catalogue showcases fifty unpublished student type designs, interviews held by the Design graphique & Typographie class at ESAL Metz with the jury members: Andrea Tinnes (Germany), Alejandro Lo Celso (Argentina), Matthieu Cortat (France), Hans-Jürg Hunziker (Switzerland) & Gerard Unger (Netherlands). The catalogue features also bibliography in images, essential books when learning type design, published between 1905 and 2016. Book entirely printed in single black, and distributed freely at the opening of the exhibition. 15x26 cm, 200 pages, soft-cover with dustjacket, limited to 300 copies. Free PDF download of the catalogue (link below). More information about the exhibition here.

Title
Pangramme: learning type design
Date
2016
Type
Education, Editorial design
Client
École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine
Place
Metz
Material
Catalogue
Assistance
Francis Ramel, Rafael Ribas
Text typeface
Messine
Paper
Munken Lynx
Printing
Imbescheidt, Frankfurt am Main
Edition
École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine

Pangramme: learning type design, ESAL Metz, 2016.

Etienne Pressager, Malzéville, 2006. etiennepressager.fr

Jardin de Cristal, Abbaye des Prémontrés, Pont-à-Mousson, 2007.

One week workshop with Bachelor students. Design of a digital alphabet where capitals and minuscules have a distinctive different drawing.

Title
Two types in one
Date
2019
Type
Education
Client
Hochschule Aachen
Place
Aachen
Material
Workshop

Two types in one, Hochschule Aachen, 2019.

À l’occasion > Rencontres nationales de la Fraap, Trinitaires & 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine Metz, 2008.

Almost is a typeface between gothic and roman. Based on in-depth research, it was designed by Jérôme Knebusch in 2012-2019 in five weights and two styles, Gothic and Roman, and completed in 2021 with respective italics. Almost Display was added to the collection in 2024, intended to headlines and shorter texts in bigger sizes. It carefully adapts its proportions to save horizontal space, and sharper terminals look more refined, especially in bolder weights. Almost Display otherwise mirrors the various expressive possibilities of Almost, and might be the preferred choice in point sizes above twenty. More information about Almost on Poem's website.

Title
Almost Display
Date
2024
Type
Type design, Research
Client
Poem
Place
Frankfurt am Main
Material
Retail typeface
Conference
Gotico-Antiqua symposium, Nancy 2019
Award
Type Directors Club 2020
Award
Typographica 2019
Publisher
Poem

Almost Display, typeface, 2024. Published by Poem.

Hamlet, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, 2018.

Drawing Time / Le temps du dessin, Musée des Beaux-Arts & galeries Poirel, Nancy, 2010.

Rudolf Koch began drawing the Offenbach typeface in 1928, the first size was cut in 1931, and Koch made final corrections on his deathbed in 1934. The type was published from 6 to 60 pt posthumously by Gebr. Klingspor foundry in 1935. Stylistically, Offenbach is a hybrid, pairing wide roman capitals with narrow gothic minuscules, a mixture Koch had experienced in several of his typefaces like Jessen or Wallau. His student Hans Kühne had added to the Klingspor release the ‘German’ gothic capitals as alternative to the roman capitals. Offenbach is a faithful revival of Offenbach Mager, the initial thin weight, based on a one-week workshop in 2022 under the direction of Jérôme Knebusch. The students of the HfG Offenbach studied the archive material in the Klingspor Museum and lead type in the nearby printing workshop in the Bernardbau. The Offenbach typeface is freely usable by anyone, privately or professionally, under the Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0 license. This licence allows free use of the font, provided that the type and author are mentioned when using it (Offenbach by Rudolf Koch) and that no modification is made to its design.

Title
Offenbach
Date
2025
Type
Type design
Client
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Klingspor Museum, Poem
Place
Offenbach
Material
Free typeface
Workshop
Yile Cho, Quirin Fürbeck, Simon Gerstner, Paula Janser, Emerson Martus, Ekaterina Sacharova, Ngoc Anh Tran, Chiara Wißler, Edvinas Žukauskas (Marc Schütz, HfG Offenbach)
Licence
Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0

Offenbach, free typeface, 2025. Published by Poem and Klingspor Type Archive / HfG Offenbach.

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