Hamlet, workshop, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, 2018.
One week workshop and research trip with ANRT students at Biblioteca Santa Scolastica in Subiaco, 2018. Digital revival of the two types used (and probably also created) by Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz in Subiaco and Rome. Part of the Gotico-Antiqua research program. Published as free OpenSource fonts at ANRT (link below).
Sweynheim & Pannartz, workshop, w/ Thomas Huot-Marchand & Emilie Rigaud (ANRT), Biblioteca Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, 2018.
klaatu barada nikto: histoires de science-fiction, exhibition, ESAL Metz, 2013.
Un mot, un matériau, workshop, École Française de Saarbruck et Dilling, 2008.
A letter from Sancho Panza to his wife, workshop, HEAR Mulhouse, 2015.
Schriftgestaltung: zwischen Leserlichkeit und Ausdruck, workshop, Hochschule Darmstadt, 2016.
Durandus, workshop, Hochschule Mainz, Gutenberg Museum, 2016.
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.
Offenbach in Offenbach. Koch's last typeface?, workshop, Klingspor Museum, Druckwerkstatt & HfG Offenbach, 2022.
Bilingual (French, German) supplement to Pangramme: learning type catalogue, published by ESAL Metz, published at the occasion of the traveling exhibition at Biennale de design graphique Chaumont and Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig in 2017 and 2018. Texts by Andrea Tinnes, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Sébastien Morlighem and Jérôme Knebusch. 15x26 cm, 16 pages pamphlet. Free PDF downloads (links below). More information about the exhibtion here
Pangramme: learning type design, pamphlet, ESAL Metz, Biennale de design graphique Chaumont, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, 2017-2018.
Espèce d'ABC pour un espace à travers, workshop, École nationale supérieure d'art, Nancy, 2007.
In 2011, students of ESAL Metz started within a workshop with Argentinian type designer Alejandro Lo Celso and their teacher Jérôme Knebusch a specific design for their school. Looking for a bookish typeface tending to modern forms, the students found interesting references in the work of Baskerville and Didot, precisely: exactly inbetween. The type grew during the following years, each time in intensive workshop sessions, to a complete type family named Messine, covering text, display, poster, italic, bold, sans and serif versions. Today, Messine is the official and exclusive typeface of the school, used all over its documents.
Messine, workshop programme, custom typeface, w/ PampaType, ESAL Metz, 2011-2019.