Speakers

Jean-Francois Porchez
He has worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge and has created the typeface for Le Monde newspapers (1994). He also designs custom typefaces for companies such as RATP (Public Transport in Paris), Peugeot, Costa Crocieres, and France Telecom. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has recently completed a revival of Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998. Costa received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2000. He was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type design Contest, and is the Vice President of AtypI. He teaches type design at ENSAD/Paris, contributes to international conferences and has published Lettres Fransaises, a book in which all contemporary French digital typefaces are displayed.
Parisine, a parisian type