Livraison dedicated its 13th issue to a treatise on typography composed by some very uppercase characters: type founders Peter Bil’ak, Annick Lantenois, Jean-Baptiste Levée, Thomas Huot-Marchand and many others.
Digests of this sort only rarely get published in France, which explains why the printed tome sold out in a few weeks. Happy reading.
Art Book Magazine

Livraison, a contemporary art magazine - and on the occasion of this issue, a graphic design magazine -, means to make a foray into the fields of language and typography. Typography, which is the physical manifestation of writing and thought, is the place where linguistic content and plastic sign meet, where an idea takes lasting material form. And yet, by its very form, its origin and its style, the typographic character itself also brings its own history to this encounter, thus becoming the vector of a competing signification that cannot be ignored. Of this superposition of the signs - plastic/linguistic - a metadiscourse is born, a discourse on discourse whose modes of utterance are determined by the infinite possibilities typographic creation offers. (...)
Livraison

Featured:
Victor Guégan, Peter Bil'ak, Sonia de Puineuf, Benoît Buquet, Fabrice Sabatier, Kader Mokaddem, Jean-Claude Paillasson, Laure Laganier, Caroline Fabès, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Sébastien Truchet, Stéphane Darricau, Olivier Deloignon, Annick Lantenois, Vivien Philizot, Lucille Guigon, Titus Nemeth, Alejandro Lo Celso, Roxane Jubert, M.A. Thébault, Pierre Roesch, Luc(as) de Groot, Jean-Baptiste Levée