Musiques de rues is a festival that brings together original musical forms (wanderings, sound installations, bricophonie, world music) in the streets of Besançon.

After having developed the graphic charter for the 2006 edition, Thomas Huot-Marchand has been in charge since 2007 of all graphic communication. The identity is based on the diversion of graphic elements from urban signage (zebras), a very bright color code (using a mixture of two fluorescent tones plus two process tones), and the use of his typeface Garaje (also urban inspiration).

Thomas Huot-Marchand, 2010:

At the School of Fine Arts in Besançon [now known as Institut supérieur des beaux-arts de Besançon], with my colleague Rainer Oldendorf, we convened a group of first year students for the creation of a display wall. We used Garaje 0503 Monospace, designed for the school’s visual identity. Each glyph was photocopied in two sizes, A4 and A6. A grid of 750 A6 boxes was drawn on the wall, which Rainer with Gilles Picouet engraved. This physical grid allowed, throughout the year, the weekly collage of all the school’s news messages.

Garaje 0503 Monospace is a fixed-pitch version of Garaje 53 Unicase Black. It’s actually a fake monospace, because the M and W are wider. On the other hand, there is only one line thickness in the entire font, a value that is also found between the letters, and between the lines, and in the counterforms.

The visual identity of Hangar23, a performance hall in Rouen was designed by Thomas Huot-Marchand from 2011 until 2016. The silhouette of the hangar, as well as its environment — the port, the containers and the Seine quays — inspired the logo and the visual of the first season (2011–12).

Les Deux Scènes / Scène nationale de Besançon was born in 2012 from the union of two institutions, the “Théâtre musical” and the “Théâtre de l’Espace”. Since 2013, Garaje has been in use for various communication matter of “Les 2 Scènes”.

Les Deux Scènes / Scène nationale de Besançon was born in 2012 from the union of two institutions, the “Théâtre musical” and the “Théâtre de l’Espace”. Since 2013, Garaje has been in use for various communication matter of “Les 2 Scènes”.

The communication documents of the first season were printed with two spot colors, blue and red, visible with 3D glasses (anaglyphs): one could see with one eye what was happening in one place, and what was going on in the second was captured by the other eye; the same treatment was applied to the systematically superimposed images.

Les Deux Scènes / Scène nationale de Besançon was born in 2012 from the union of two institutions, the “Théâtre musical” and the “Théâtre de l’Espace”. Since 2013, Garaje has been in use for various communication matter of “Les 2 Scènes”. Another typeface by Thomas Huot-Marchand, Minuscule, is used as a complementary typeface. In this theater season booklet it is used for body copy.

Les Deux Scènes / Scène nationale de Besançon was born in 2012 from the union of two institutions, the “Théâtre musical” and the “Théâtre de l’Espace”. Since 2013, Garaje has been in use for various communication matter of “Les 2 Scènes”. Another typeface by Thomas Huot-Marchand, Minuscule, is used as a complementary typeface.

Thomas Huot-Marchand created the visual identity of Rouen’s theater, L'Étincelle, with his Minérale typeface, available on www.205.tf. Minérale is paired with Sandrine Nugue’s Infini, another recent French typeface design with similar lapidary qualities.

Detail from the L’Étincelle homepage

Detail from the program overview on the website