This work traces the history of photography from its invention in 1827 to its contemporary uses, through the collections of the Nicéphore Niépce Museum, which comprise four million photographs, 8,000 cameras, and 30,000 magazines and technical or illustrated books. Off the beaten path, it presents an “alternative history” of photography, focusing on the richness of the medium in the diversity of its techniques, artistic movements, and modes of dissemination. It documents the social, documentary, and commercial dimensions of photography from its origins. Deliberately heterogeneous and quasi-encyclopedic, it bears witness to the many paths taken by photography.

The design of this publication, published by Éditions Textuel, was entrusted to the French graphic designer Le Petit Didier. He chose the typeface Garaje (with Garaje Mono, by Thomas Huot-Marchand, 205TF) for headings and subheadings, and the typeface Portada Text (José Scaglione and Veronika Burian, TypeTogether) for body text and captions.

For the 2019–2020 program and poster of BigTorrent, creative studio Torrent paired Codec by Zetafonts with two spot colors green and blue. From the studio’s portfolio website:

Bipolar, an agency for the production of artistic works and events, entrusted us with the creation of event communication for BigTorrent (Avignon, Arles, Chalon-sur-Saône, Lyon), a project which mobilizes residents of the Rhône through contemporary creation and the Saône on the ecological issues linked to the river.

Michel Le Petit Didier designed the routing/identity for several exhibitions of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce with Maax Mono, a typeface by Damien Gautier. The museum aims to explain the springs of photography since its invention by Niépce to the digital image.
The images represent the work of Michel Le petit Didier during the exhibitions Papiers, s’il vous plait!, Roger Ballen, Asylum of Birds and La Fnac, une collection pour l’exemple.

For the graphic design of the exhibition Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, Colles et Chimères presented at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Michel Le Petit Didier chose the typeface Maax Mono, created by Damien Gautier.