Exhibition poster.

Justice Commune is an exhibition showing archival resources from the Municipal Archives of Toulouse, France. Taking place at the University of Toulouse, the exhibition focuses on traces of criminal justice during the seventeenth century.

Studio Vif Design used Sainte Colombe to set the title of the exhibition which translates to “common justice”. Used in caps, Sainte Colombe immediately evokes the aesthetic of lapidary inscriptions that used to show the laws and rules in the ancient city. Its sharp capital letters keep a legacy associated to authority, all the more when it comes to institutional authority. No wonder it seemed appropriate for an exhibition dedicated to judiciary archives.

We see here the classical aspect of Sainte Colombe, which is usually counterbalanced by its lowercase letters, showing more evidently the irregularities of the stroke: its design was directly aimed at reconciling illogical shapes with an overall stability, in order to obtain a regularity in diversity.

Sainte Colombe is contrasted with the sans-serif Fakt.

The exhibition graphics additionally use Steinbeck with its alternate r, see the bottom right.

On the occasion of the Euro 2016, Toulouse’s archives collected photographs from reporter André Cros to make an exhibition in the public space, near the “fan zone”. The selection shows some highlights of the Toulouse soccer team in the mid 20th century.

Vif designed the graphics as a tribute to soccer graphic codes, such as sporty types and fluo colors.

Scenography: Emmanuelle Sapet. Curator: Pierre Gastou.
Type: Parade by Romain Oudin – Lift Type / Separat by Gunmad – Or Type.

To celeberate the 500th anniversary of the first depiction of the city of Toulouse, the Municipal Archives and the Convent of the Jacobins have joined forces to offer an exhibition of five centuries of maps, views, drawings, photographs … of the city. The exhibition shows how the visual memory of the city has been shaped as technology advances.

Vif Design designed the communication of the event as well as the graphics of the exhibition in a desire to refresh the content while linking the different periods represented.

Scenography: Emmanuelle Sapet
Curator: François Bordes
Type: Benoît Bodhuin