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November
2014
Nice to meet you : Le Goff & Gabarra
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Yes, it was well last May that I met Camille Gabarra & Tugdual Le Goff. I contact them just after I post their work here and it was like meeting old friends. We talk about design and type around a good coffee... And I forget to took pictures of the studio ! Here comes few one I have done...
We share the same passion of type and letters and they show me their great project for You talking to me just before its launch. Camille Gabarra shoot their great typographic objects...
They also launch some new project since I post about them.
Also, Camille took amazing portrait of people, and he just met Nicolat Flachot, the guy behind Kidimo that I met... the same day I met Camille ! You follow me ????
Camille also post like crazy on pinterest (25 000 images soon !)
All the links : Lgetg first post . lgetg web site . You talking to me shop . My Kidimo meeting post . Kidimo web site
17
June
2014
Nice to meet you Kidimo
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Since my first visit to Kidimo workshop, 3 years ago, Nicolas Flachot, who create the project, moved into a space that can accommodate its impressive stock of vintage letters of all sizes! During my last visit to Paris I could explore this new loft.
And one time a year, are organized "cleaning days" with everything at 75% off ! It will be next Thursday and Friday, and, for the first time, a special night tomorrow starting at 6PM. The loft must be something with all the light letters on !
Kidimo . 227, rue St-Denis - 75002 Paris . www.kidimo.com
Cleaning days
Wednesday june 18, noctural 18:00 to 22:00
Thursday 19 and Friday june 20, 10:00 to 19:00
Thursday 19 and Friday june 20, 10:00 to 19:00
31
December
2013
Nice to meet you : Letterpress.fr & Clint Harvey
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This weekend, at the invitation of Clint Harvey, Head of the School of Design College Australia, I went to Paris to meet Denis and Mylène, who have a lettepress studio... on a boat!
I met Clint 3 years ago during a short time in Brisbane to do a talk, I had the great pleasure to do a typography workshop and print with wood type ! A great time. Since then, we kept in touch and when he told me that he would be in Paris , we had to see us! But I did not expect that! Imagine 4 fans of typography and printing on a large houseboat with a printing studio ! Add it a little wine, some design books and it was a beautiful exchange !
Denis and Mylène spent six months in Australia, that's where Denis is formed letterpress with Clint. After a career in finance, Denis decided to change his life and get to letterpress ! Mylène is a graphic designer, what a duet! So he bought the machine, then invited an American printer perfecting his technique ! Another fine example of people who created their life and " when we want, we can !"
Thanks for the great type addic tweek end !!! / www.letterpress.fr
So this is the last day of 2013 ... Tomorrow is next year! I prepare , of course , many things, but for now I'll enjoy the last few hours ... Just to whet your mouth , I'm working on two numbers of "THREE " ebooks, about 300 pages of pure inspiration ... !
18
December
2013
Nice to meet you : Studio Pression
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As stated in one of the sentences of the calendar, "Some things take time." I want to publish those photos long ago, but it seems it was waiting for the right moment! I met Jean-Christophe last summer, after visiting El Calotipo in Spain and Miss Clara in Bordeaux. I met him via facebook and I was attracted by a photo of his buisness card!
When Piers Faccini asked me to help him to print posters accompanied the release of his latest album, I thought it was a good opportunity to do a project together! The paper cut Piers created for the cover of the album are perfect for letterpress! We made four posters, two with the album cover and two with the "lovers", alternating black, blue and red colors.
Jean-Christophe has a true passion for ink and paper, machine and pressure! When I asked "why letterpres" I did not expect his answer: "Well, I discovered it on your blog, I order you 2011 calendar and I figure out "this is I want to do" ! I was tired of making websites, so I bought an Heidelberg press, I disassembled and reassembled it and I learned with the manual! "
