Toulouse Olympique Aviation Club was founded on October 4, 1944, through a
merger of Toulouse Olympique XV and the Omnisport Aviation Club Toulousain. Since March 6, 1990, the club from the capital of France’s southern Occitanie region is known under the name Toulouse Olympique Aérospatiale Club (TOAC).

This membership card from 1945/1946, issued to Joseph Goulounes (1924–2001), features the club’s emblem with a winged dragon and a compass rose.

“Membre actif” is set in Elegant-Grotesk licht, an all-caps inline version of Stempel’s Futura follower, Elegant-Grotesk. The specific version likely is Universelles éclairées, a local copy sold by the Dutreix foundry in Limoges.

The plain sans has German roots as well: it’s Simplex, a variant of Berthold-Grotesk with a monocular a, produced by Fonderie Olive in Marseille.

The italic serif used for “Année” is Cheltenham with the alternate swash A, available in France from Fonderie Caslon. The wide grot used for the club’s name is yet unidentified.

Flyer for a gig with Hellthorn and Corps Vidés, December 5th, 2025, at Le Winger in Toulouse, France. The main font in use is Holland-Gotisch, one of the digitizations of an 18th-century design also known as Fleischmann-Gotisch.

Flyer for a gig with Tennger and Strates, November 26, 2025, at le Dalidaark in Toulouse, France.

I caught you is an editorial work inspired by Steven Spielberg's film Catch Me If You Can, which recounts the life of the famous fraudster Frank Jr. Abagnale.

Putting myself in the shoes of an investigator and a forger, I catalogued the various documents forged by F. Abagnale that appear in the film. I then recreated them as facsimiles and incorporated them into the edition.

These documents interact with scenes from the film in which they appear, the text of Frank Abagnale’s autobiography (which inspired the film), as well as excerpts and images from the book The Art of the Steal, in which the forger shares his knowledge of forgery and explains how to protect oneself from fraud.

Printed in March 2023 at isdaT, Toulouse.

The Book of the Film* is a publishing project made at isdaT, presenting initial research on books in film openings. I first collected appearances of these generic books in films, which I then supplemented with theoretical texts. Finally, a typology based on the images in the collection concludes this edition.

*The title is a reference to a parody scene featuring generic books in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Flyer for a punk gig with Parnepar and Drim, October 5, 2025, at Le Winger Bar in Toulouse, France.

Flyer for the double cassette release show of Ectoplasm and Nohz, which took place on the 24th of December 2023 at Le Chien Stupide in Nantes, France.

Flyer for an punk show with No Sanctuary, Blessure, Detached and Filature which took place on the 8th of December in Toulouse, at the Skatepark Le Petit.

Flyer for an electronic/noise show with Zoon and Undude which took place on the 14th of March in Toulouse, at Atelier des Cheminots.

Flyer for a punk gig with Bombardement (Bordeaux) and Cagnard (Marseille) at Le Winger in Toulouse.

Artwork and layout for trait d’union’s first LP, adieu la fête. Released on tape and vinyl by Frozen Records in May 2024.

Flyer for a punk/hardcore show with WüT, Batterrrii, and Corps Vidés which took place on the 25th of March in Toulouse, at Atelier des Cheminots.

The magazine logo uses Flood, see the post about issue 28.

This 56th issue of the French cinema magazine La Septième Obsession is dedicated to American filmmaker John McTiernan, with a 100-pages focus on the subject with movies reviews (Die Hard, Predator, etc,), an interview with French film director and screenwriter Arnaud Desplechin, and various thematic essays.

Like in most issues since 2020, texts are set in Lyon and Surt, while titles use an all-caps Grandmaster. The cover title seems to be set in NYC. This typeface is similar to ITC Machine as used for McTiernan’s 1987 movie Predator. There is also a free font called Predator Movie that copies the uppercase of NYC.

Some posters, T-shirts and illustrations around the theme of glaciers, mountains and nature for Agir pour les Glaciers (“Taking Action for Glaciers”), a festival that took place in March 2025 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France.

En Pleine Nature is a Michelin-starred gourmet restaurant just outside Toulouse. The ecologically committed gastronomic enterprise uses local produce that is also sold in the affiliated bakery, wine cellar, and deli.

Chef Sylvain Joffre keeps his promise: his fresh, subtle and fragrant cuisine is born “in the wild”. This authentic cook-gardener-gatherer makes the most of the vegetables and herbs in his kitchen garden, as well as scrupulously selected regional produce. His sincere style precludes any fancy tricks: beautiful produce is worked in all its truth, magnified with juices and coulis, emblazoned with plants and flowers from the garden… all with the constant concern of keeping prices down. As for the decor, it’s a sober interior, or a pleasant terrace shaded by parasols. Highly committed to respecting nature, the chef also offers an adjoining boutique with viennoiseries, brioches and breads made with organic flour. He describes his culinary vision with the following words:

The cuisine is inspired by nature (the chef's vegetable garden, foraging…) and by the work of local producers, highlighted in the surprise menu. To set an example and raise awareness of environmental issues among customers and staff alike, we are reducing the use of imported products as much as possible, and gradually introducing actions in favor of sustainable development.

The magazine logo uses Flood, see the post about issue 28.

This 55th issue of the French cinema magazine La Septième Obsession is dedicated to women and horror movies, including interviews with filmmakers Coralie Fargeat and Robert Eggers, as well as movie reviews (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, The Silence of the Lambs…) and thematic essays.

Most texts are set in Lyon and Surt, while titles use an all-caps Grandmaster (occasionally with modified letters). Several covers exist, one featuring The Substance and using Signal Compressed, the other featuring Nosferatu and using Bradley DJR as well as Hans Fraktur.

Note the modified uppercase R in the title.

Note the modified uppercase R in the title.

Alternate cover using Bradley DJR and Hans Fraktur

This 54th issue of the French cinema magazine La Septième Obsession is dedicated to American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, with a 100-pages focus on the subject from classics like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now to the most recent Megalopolis.

Most texts are set in Lyon and Surt, while titles use Grandmaster in all caps (occasionally with modified letters). The cover title is in Apocalypse Now, a typeface that imitates the title lettering for the eponymous movie.

The magazine logo uses Flood, see the post about issue 28.

Note the modified uppercase “R” in the title.

The most complete case study ever written on the critical subject of text typography, by one of the best contemporary British book designers. Andrew Barker describes at length the methodology he used when revising the typographic norms for the Penguin Classics series, arguably the most revered imprint for literary paperbacks in the United Kingdom. His lucid and thorough account is supplemented by a lengthy interview about his career as a book designer and the intellectual and ethical values that shape his work.

Andrew Barker is a graphic designer specialising in information design. He has been designer and design manager for Penguin Books for twelve years.

La typographie des Penguin Classics was written by Andrew Barker, with a foreword by Stéphane Darricau. It was edited and published by Bureau Brut and Stéphane Darricau, Toulouse, in an edition of 750 copies. Round is used together with Droulers, both by Bureau Brut.

The book has 92 pages and measures 170×180 mm plus flaps.
Materials: grey cardboard plus 90 g/m² Munken Print White 1.8 uncoated offset paper
Printing: Art & Caractère, Lavaur, southern France
Binding: sewn Otabind binding, Atelier Façonnage, Neuillé-Pont-Pierre
ISBN: 978-2-9580531-3-0

Published by Bureau Brut and Stéphane Darricau, twen [1959–1971] offers a spectacular exploration of art director Willy Fleckhaus’s work for German magazine twen. From 1959 to 1971, twen was arguably the most influential magazine in the world thanks to its visual audacity and graphic innovation, and many contemporary designers still consider it an unavoidable reference point. Our book retraces this unparalleled editorial adventure by focusing on Fleckhaus’s extraordinary layouts as well as twen’s exceptional history and legacy.

This book presents twen's exceptional visual legacy through more than 300 rigorously selected and carefully sequenced pictures. These are accompanied by original texts from Hans-Michael Koetzle, Serge Ricco and Stéphane Darricau.

The publication (155×230 mm + flaps, 156 pages) was edited and published by Bureau Brut and Stéphane Darricau, in an edition of 1,000 copies. Boogy Brut designed by Bureau Brut and Julien Priez is used throughout. This book was generously supported by the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap).

Translations: Raphaelle Dedourge (DE→FR) and Alison Hughes (FR→EN)
Materials: grey cardboard and 90 g/m² Munken Print White 1.8 uncoated offset paper -–Novatech Gloss
Printing: Art & Caractère, Lavaur, southern France
Binding: sewn Otabind binding by Atelier Façonnage, Neuillé-Pont-Pierre
ISBN: 978-2-9580531-2-3

L’art queer de ne pas réussir à traduire “L’art queer de ne pas réussir” is a collection of annexes to the text The Queer Art of Failure written by Jack Halberstam. Halberstam views failure as empowering events that can serve as critiques of capitalist and heteropatriarchal norms.

As the title suggests, I failed to translate this text. However, from this book, which seemed so desirable and yet almost unattainable, I tried to grasp what I could in order to redistribute it into the six objects contained in this folder (including, among other things, a discussion with Léo Love Gentil about the collective dansmalangue, a translation of Chapter 1 of TQAOF, and a SpongeBob Survival Kit). This project experiments with the content of the book itself, putting it to the test in order to imagine it beyond the mystery it holds.

TQAOF was written in 2011, and Jack Halberstam uses a concept he calls “Low Theory”, with which he seeks to analyze popular culture objects to reach a broader audience. The project is almost exclusively composed in Fluxisch Else (distributed by Open Source Publishing) and Adelphe by Eugénie Bidaut (available on the Typothèque Genderfluid by Bye Bye Binary). The two are supported by cameo appearances by a handful of other typefaces.

The project pdf is available via are.na.