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

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.

Title
Messine
Date
2011–2019
Type
Education, Type design
Client
École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine
Place
Metz
Material
Workshop programme, custom typeface
Interview
Graphisme en France
Conference
Let's Type symposium, Metz 2013
Conference
Baskerville in France symposium, Amiens 2018
Award
Fine Press Book Association 2013
Award
Ampersand Exhibition 2013

Messine, workshop programme, custom typeface, w/ PampaType, ESAL Metz, 2011-2019.

Sweynheim & Pannartz, workshop, w/ Thomas Huot-Marchand & Emilie Rigaud, Biblioteca Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, 2018.

Un mot, un matériau, workshop, École Française de Saarbruck et Dilling, 2008.

Pangramme: learning type design, catalogue, ESAL Metz, 2016. Download catalogue

A letter from Sancho Panza to his wife, workshop, HEAR Mulhouse, 2015.

Durandus, workshop, Hochschule Mainz, Gutenberg Museum, 2016.

Hamlet, workshop, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, 2018.