.txt 3
Three alternative covers
This book is the third of the .txt series, published by Éditions B42 together with the French art school ÉSAD Grenoble Valence, under the direction of professors Annick Lantenois and Samuel Vermeil and with the aim of sharing some of the students’ written research. Each of the three issues was designed by a group of students from that same school; this third one was designed by Benjamin Dumond and Clarisse Podesta, and published in 2018. It comes with three different cover layouts.
.txt3 features texts from: Lise Brosseau, Justine Chevalier, Vincent Duché, Antoine Gelgon, Alice Jauneau and Ivan Murit.
From the publisher (translated):
Among the publications that reflect on the diversity of graphic design practices, .txt is intended as a writing space for students in the “Graphic design” department at the École supérieure d’art et design Grenoble-Valence.
In the words of a famous Shadock motto: “It’s better to pump even if nothing happens than risk something worse happening by not pumping.” In terms of design pedagogy, this could mean: it’s better to imagine/dream/think even if nothing happens than to risk something worse happening by not imagining/dreaming/thinking. To invent. And not just to innovate. To transform. And not just to accommodate. To imagine other design practices, other modes of production, other parameters of analysis. This imagination, these dreams, these thoughts are those of students whose texts published in this third .txt volume also bear witness to a critical approach to our world.
The cover and titles are set in a preliminary version of Michaux, designed by Benjamin Dumond during his studies at ÉSAD Grenoble Valence. The typeface, with its unusual design process, was then let “as is” for about a decade, before it was recently refined and extended to be published on the type foundry Plain Form. Running texts use Kris Sowersby’s Newzald, while notes use Dauphine, designed in 2013 by Charles Mazé and Coline Sunier together with
The publication has 158 pages, measures 123×216 mm, and was offset printed (Black).
ISBN: 978–2–917855–89–8
Michaux's punctuation used together with Newzald.
Chapter openings feature a preliminary version of Michaux Regular, set on an irregular baseline.
