Faire face à l’Anthropocène. Les voies du droit is a book by Isabelle Michallet, published by Éditions deux-cent-cinq. For the design, French graphic design studio Bureau 205 used Damien Gautier’s Plaax and Tassiana Nuñez Costa⁠’s Thelo.

Isabelle Michallet explores the ways in which the law can respond to today's ecological emergency. In the last century, legal rules were fundamentally anthropocentric, often reflecting a generalized logic of predation and destruction. Today, the law must integrate the end of this model.

Considering that the legal instrument is not only constructed by bodies dominated by politics, she shows that it is also the expression of societal and citizen choices.

The headlines are set in Plaax Sathonay LightB. Continuous text and footnotes use Thelo Text. The book has 116 pages and measures 9,5×15,7 cm. Printed by Ott in Wasselonne, France.

Esthétique du “care” pour l’Anthropocène is a book by María Grace Salamanca Gonzaléz, published by Éditions deux-cent-cinq. For the design, French graphic design studio Bureau 205 used Damien Gautier’s Plaax and Tassiana Nuñez Costa⁠’s Thelo, both available from 205TF.

Is there anything left to do? To say? To think about? Can we continue to believe that knowledge is enough to change our behavior and decisions? What is valuable enough for us, as humans, to face up to planetary emergencies?

This book explores the imaginary dimensions of the various crises of habitability that are shaping the era known as the “Anthropocene”. It proposes an aesthetic response to a moral question. Thinking about the Anthropocene from a moral perspective involves asking how our decisions are shaped and made, according to which scales of value we decide what counts and what will be interpreted as secondary, contextual or incidental.

The headlines are set in Plaax Sathonay LightB. Continuous text and footnotes use Thelo Text. The book has 116 pages and measures 9,5×15,7 cm. Printed by Ott in Wasselonne, France.

Valua Terra. Faire la valeur des environnements (“Valua Terra. Valuing the envioronment”) was published by Éditions 205:

But what on earth are we going to do in this Anthropocene? By judging that the planet has entered a new geological era as a result of human activities, Earth specialists have placed the ecological emergency at the top of all our agendas, especially those of our political and economic leaders, who are subject to their public opinions and their clients. In the face of inertia, the collective imperative is to rethink the development of societies in order to take into account the finiteness of the planet’s resources, and to face the transformations of human living patterns induced by globalization and the global ecological crisis.

Bureau 205 used the Plaak and Plaax – both designed by Damien Gautier – and Thelo, designed by Tassiana Nuñez Costa⁠. These typefaces are available from 205TF.

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans woke up to a scorching day in which temperatures reached 41 degrees Celsius. The heatwave would extend well beyond the two days initially predicted by meteorologists. Over the next week, more than seven hundred people died. The great Chicago heat wave was one of the deadliest in American history. Eric Klinenberg undertakes a “social autopsy” of a metropolis, examining the social, political and institutional organs of the city. He examines the reasons for the marked excess mortality in certain neighbourhoods, looks at how the city responded to the crisis and how journalists, scientists and officials reported and explained the events.

Bureau 205 designed and produced this book as part of the collection “À partir de l'Anthropocène” developed jointly by Éditions deux-cent-cinq and the École urbaine de Lyon.
The form and format stem from the editorial principle established at the start of this collaboration, which aims to “reinvent” the way of publishing in the Anthropocene era: optimisation of resources through a format adapted to the size of the paper and machines, printing in France by service providers who are themselves concerned about reducing their environmental impact, reduction of transport, etc.

Over the course of the pages, without the reader noticing, the colour slowly changes from orange to bright red, as if to reflect the – inexorable – rise in temperatures over the coming years.

The typefaces used are Thelo Micro, designed by Tassiana Nunez-Costa, for its high legibility and strong typographic grey, and Plaax, designed by Damien Gautier, used for titles in narrow capitals, headings and footnotes, both distributed by 205TF.

On March 17, 2020, a strict lockdown of the French population started, in order to prevent Covid-19 from spreading. Suddenly, everything stopped: travels, exchanges, tourism, schools, universities, shopping malls, airports, factories, cinemas, theatres…

In this unprecedented context, geographer Michel Lussault decided to produce a series of video chronicles called “géo’ virale”, in order to “not be stupidly locked down” and to share thoughts out loud. One needs to “think the world with the virus”, as the spread of the virus highlights the main characteristics of globalisation, particularly the generalised urbanisation of the planet. The pandemic reveals how the world evolve in a system, and how vulnerable it is, underlining social inequality.

Chroniques de géo’ virale designed by Bureau 205 transcribes the ten chronicles posted from March 23 to May 11, 2020 (when total lockdown progressively ended). The author added commentaries, which puts each episode in critical perspective, as well as a conclusion that considers the pandemic as a “total fact of the anthropocene era”. In order of offering a different view on the text, illustrator Lou Herrmann designed a graphic journey through the chronicles, to enrich the reading.

The headlines are set in Plaax Sathonay LightB. Continuous text uses Thelo Text, and its Micro style is used for captions.

Black texts are set in Thelo Text, red ones in Thelo Micro.

Nouvelles Urbanités proposes a reflection on how to think tomorrow’s city differently, starting today!

This journal gives the floor to the collective Nouvelles Urbanités*, born on the occasion of the exhibition Lieux infinis at the French pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018. Since then, the exploration and analysis of collective processes to inhabit the world and build common ones continues.

This edition designed by Bureau 205 summarizes the exchanges and formalizes proposals for actions to consider tomorrow’s city differently. Given to many of the city’s stakeholders—practitioners and theorists, project owners and project managers, teachers and specialists—it is possible to glimpse how, together, the city can be thought of, conceived and constructed differently, both urban and architectural, as well as ecological, societal, food, economic, financial and legal aspects, at a time when, obviously, society needs to be viewed from other angles.

*This collective initially consists of Atelier parisien d’urbanisme, Aurore, la Banque des Territoires, Cheuvreux notaires, l’École urbaine de Lyon, Encore Heureux Architectes, Enlarge Your Paris, Plateau Urbain, SNCF Immobilier, l’Union sociale pour l’habitat et Yes We Camp.

Authors: Dominique Alba, Alain Alexanian, Nicolas Bard, Fabrice Bardet, Renaud Bettin, Patrick Bouchain, Paul Citron, Fanny Cottet, Angèle de Lamberterie, Nicola Delon, Nicolas Détrie, Valérie Disdier, Vianney Delourme, Charlotte Girerd, Arthur Grimonpont, Olivier Hamant, Lou Herrmann, Simon Laisney, Raphaël Léonetti, Michel Lussault, Raphaël Ménard, Camille Picard, Michèle Raunet, Jacques Richard, Benoït Quignon, Hervé Rivano, Boris Tavernier, Benoît Thévard, Nicolas Tixier, Maxime Zaït, Joëlle Zask

The typography uses various styles from Thelo, a type family that emerged from a consideration of the publishing conditions in the digital era. Designed by Tassiana Nuñez Costa between 2014 and 2020, the typeface aims to answer contemporary editorial questions of coherence and legilibility accross medias and reading formats. Thelo comes in three optical sizes; Display, Text, and Micro. It was released by 205TF in July 2020. Illustrations by Lou Herrmann.