Atelier Jérôme Knebusch
Mainzer Landstraße 105
60329 Frankfurt am Main
jk [at] jeromeknebusch.net
+49 69 15 61 60 23

One week workshop at Hochschule Mainz with Bachelor students. Design of a full digital alphabet with predefined geometric modules.

Title
Learning from Albers
Date
2017
Type
Education
Client
Hochschule Mainz
Place
Mainz
Material
Workshop

Learning from Albers, Hochschule Mainz, 2017.

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.

Brave New World Order catalogue, exhibition held 2021 at Rotondes, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain. The exhibition was entirely photographed so that the catalogue resembles a guided tour. Shorter, white info sheets come next to the photographs to identify the artworks. Three bookmarks permit multiple entries and reflect the black identity lines. The dust jacket once unfolded presents the exhibition poster. The books uses the custom design of a typefaces in two styles. More information on the project on its dedicated website, also designed (link below).

Title
Triennale Jeune Création
Date
2021
Type
Editorial design
Client
Rotondes, Casino Luxembourg
Place
Luxembourg City
Material
Catalogue
Publisher
Rotondes, Luxembourg & Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Editors
Kevin Muhlen, Marc Scozzai
Translation
Patrick Kremer
Photography
Andrés Lejona
Format
20x30 cm
Papers
Fedrigoni Arena Extra-White Smooth, Sirio Black, Bruno & Perla, Symbol Freelife Matt Plus
Pages
292
Printing
Cassochrome, Waregem
Binding
Soft cover, dust jacket, perfect binding
Website
bravenewworldorder.lu
Copies
700
ISBN
978−2−919790−20−3

Brave New World Order, Rotondes, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain, 2021.

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

Triennals, prefiguration event of the Luxembourg young contemporary art triennale, with former triennale participants. Custom single-typeface and 'ongoing' visual identity which will evolve in the Brave New World Order identity of the triennale held one year later. See this website for more.

Title
Triennials
Date
2020
Type
Visual identity, Editorial design
Client
Rotondes, Casino Luxembourg
Place
Luxembourg City
Material
Pamphlet, animations

Triennials, visual identity & custom typeface, Rotondes, Cercle Cité, Casino Luxembourg, 2020.

Decode Blockdock is a font which integrates a representative, uniformed glyph for each encoded Unicode block. Commissioned by Johannes Bergerhausen from Institut Designlabor Gutenberg/ Hochschule Mainz and used for the decodeunicode and worldswritingsystems websites (links below), and its iconic poster together with the missing scripts (ANRT research program).

Title
Decode Blockdock
Date
2015–2023
Type
Type design
Client
Hochschule Mainz
Place
Mainz
Material
Custom typeface
Website
decodeunicode
Website
worldswritingsystems

Decode Blockdock, custom typeface, Hochschule Mainz, 2015-2023.

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.

Koch Lichte Grotesk is the newest revival of Lichte Neuland by Rudolf Koch, designed by Edvinas Žukauskas and Jérôme Knebusch and published by Poem for Neuland’s centenary in 2023. Lichte Neuland appeared five years after Neuland in 1928, in the Gebr. Klingspor specimen dedicated to the American market by the Continental Typefounders Association. Koch Lichte Grotesk is an accurate revival of the 12 pt Cicero size, the smallest one. It is currently the only fully identified original size, as shown on the 1928 index card of the German Association of Typefounders. This association was founded at the beginning of the 20th century and most German type foundries were members. It served to represent their interests in economic, political and legal matters. A secondary source are the Lichte Neuland Cicero letters from the letterpress workshop P98A, Berlin. Koch Lichte Grotesk is available in four fonts: 12 Cicero, 12 Cicero Plain, 12 Cicero Inline and 12 Cicero Line. 10% of licence purchases are deposited each year as flowers on Koch's grave.

Title
Koch Lichte Grotesk
Date
2023
Type
Type design
Client
Poem
Place
Frankfurt am Main
Material
Retail typeface
Conference
ENSAD Nancy 2023
Photography
Norman Posselt
Publisher
Poem

Koch Lichte Grotesk, typeface, 2023, w/ Edvinas Žukauskas. Published by Poem.

À l’Antique, Musée de l’Antiquité Rouen & Frac Normandie, Rouen, 2017.

La fin du monde [The end of the world] resembles a thistle or a holly branch. During his residency at the Ergastule studios in Nancy, France, Jérôme Knebusch created twelve in a limited edition. All look similar, but none are identical. They were vector drawn, laser cut in brass, manually folded and oxidized in vinegar steam. Six are exclusively available at Poem, six others at Ergastule. The thistle photograph by Emile Gallé is from the École de Nancy archives.

Title
La fin du monde
Date
2022
Type
Artworks
Client
Ergastule
Place
Nancy
Material
Brass, vinegar oxidized
Edition
Ergastule
Edition
Poem

La fin du monde (2209C47A to L), brass, vinegar oxidized, c. 30 × 5 × 5 cm, 2022. Édition Ergastule, 12 unique + 12 AP

Art direction, design & organisation of the Pangramme: learning type design call and exhibition together with the Design graphique & Typographie class at ESAL Metz. The exhibition showcases fifty unpublished student type designs. Jury: Andrea Tinnes (Germany), Alejandro Lo Celso (Argentina), Matthieu Cortat (France), Hans-Jürg Hunziker (Switzerland) & Gerard Unger (Netherlands). The exhibtion traveled after ESAL Metz to ESAD Amiens, Le Signe Chaumont, ATypI Montréal and Druckkunst Museum Leipzig. Free PDF download of the catalogue (link below).

Title
Pangramme: learning type design
Date
2016–2018
Type
Education, Visual identity
Client
ESAL, ESAD, Le Signe, ATypi, Museum für Druckkunst
Place
Metz, Amiens, Chaumont, Montréal, Leipzig
Material
Exhibition, call for applications, signage, ads
Assistance
Francis Ramel
Download
Catalogue

Pangramme: learning type design, ESAL Metz, ESAD Amiens, Le Signe Chaumont, ATypI Montréal, Druckkunst Museum Leipzig, 2016-2018.

Etienne Pressager, Malzéville, 2006. etiennepressager.fr

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