Typography (MA)

Professors: Renaud Huberlant, Ludivine Loiseau

The research in typography at the erg questions its experimentation.

The notions of research and experimentation are mixed here to affirm that typographic uses are not predefined. The workshop proposes to the students to carry out projects in which typography opens a wider questioning. Typography can question the students' approach and practice as well as be questioned by and for itself.

Here are some common questions asked by students in the workshop:

- What place, for what meaning, does typography have in the work I do in other workshops, my TFE for example?

- How does typography, in its arrangements on paper or on screen - or in any other medium - question the mediation of the meaning it conveys?

- Why and how does typography attribute such an assertive identity to the media it inhabits, that it dresses?

- Is typography always textual and what does it become outside the agreed context of its reading?

- Can we deconstruct, decolonize, de-genderize typography and question its relationship to standards and classifications?

- What plastic language is at work in the typographic use of many artists or how to make work with typography?

- Typography is not only an image, it is also sound and language, it is also gesture and writing... how to account for it?

- Throughout history, typography has always reflected the concerns of its time: artistic, political, economic... and today?

In order to explore these (and other) lines of research through experimentation, three course modules are offered in the master's program:

1. A module of creation and typographic use which launches a collective work on a given question. (Thursday 2-5pm with Renaud Huberlant)

2. A module of research and free experimentation, based on a project initiated by the student (Thursday 5-8pm with Renaud Huberlant)

3. A character design module (Thursday 5-8pm with Ludivine Loiseau)