Instant is an anachronic type family going from thin, quick handwritten letters to stable, black typographic shapes. Each of the five styles correspond to a singular design related to a specific stroke speed and weight: Vivid, Quick, Regular, Slow, Heavy. Hommage to the poet, painter and writer Henri Michaux (1899 – 1984), it questions fundamental differences between handwriting and typography, type family consistency and the relation and usage of roman, bold and cursive faces. Instant was designed by Jérôme Knebusch in 2005 as part of a personal research project at ANRT Nancy. First published in 2012 by BAT Foundry, it is today available at Poem. In 2020, Instant Variable was added to the collection.
Instant, typeface, 2005-2012. Research project at ANRT Nancy. Published by Poem.
Three lingual, 16 pages article about the genesis of the Instant typeface. Published in Typografische Monatsblätter / Revue Suisse de l'imprimerie / Swiss Typographic Magazine, N°6, 2012. Written by Jérôme Knebusch. Free PDF download on link below.
Instant: from handwriting to type design, Typografische Monatsblätter / Revue Suisse de l'imprimerie / Swiss Typographic Magazine, N°6, 2012.
Chercher sa recherche, Ministère de la culture, ENSAD Nancy, 2012. Published by Presses Universitaires Nancy.
Notizen zu Berlin, residency, text, custom typeface, Berlin, 2010-2011. Available at poem-editions.com
Garden Party, Sébastien Gouju, Saarländische Galerie, Berlin, 2011.
Drawing Time / Le temps du dessin, Musée des Beaux-Arts & galeries Poirel, Nancy, 2010.
Europa String Quartet, Marienkirche, Berlin, 2009.
Prix d'art / Kunstpreis Robert Schuman, École supérieure d'art, Église des Trinitaires, Centre d'art contemporain Faux Mouvement, Église Saint-Pièrre-aux-Nonnains, Metz, 2009.
Yona Friedman. La création, Centre d'art contemporain – La synagogue de Delme, 2009.
Espace Typographie, École supérieure d'art, Metz, 2009.
À l’occasion > Rencontres nationales de la Fraap, Trinitaires & 49 Nord 6 Est Frac Lorraine Metz, 2008.
ARTEM, which stands for Art, Technology and Management, is an original initiative set up by the École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Nancy, ICN Business School and Mines Nancy. It combines the creation and the integration of new technologies with a managerial, strategic, economic and legal perspective. By crossing cultures – of the scientist or engineer from Mines Nancy, that of the manager from ICN Business School, and that of the artist or designer from the École nationale supérieure d'art et de design de Nancy – the Artem Alliance invites students to think outside the box by plunging them into the heart of issues and logics that are a priori far removed from their field of excellence.
In 2007, the ARTEM campus was not yet existing. A first association was concentrating the efforts and the ideas of the project while on the future campus old military buildings were demolished before entering the architectural phase. The office documents of the association used recycled paper, a custom typeface in a single weight and simple pen and marker strokes to emphasize the roughness of the first phase. The typeface grew over the years to a solid family and is still in use, more information here.