This is the sixth issue of La petite collection, designed by Bureau Roman Seban. As with every issue, the number is printed on the cover and the colophon on the back cover, typeset in Bertin (variable font), a typeface available from 205TF. The body text is set in Axo by the author, Charles Mazé, available from Abyme.

La petite collection is a series of texts dedicated to writing, typography, and book design, produced entirely by hand (from design to offset printing) within the Association Presse Offset in Paris. Each issue publishes one illustrated text in French. It is available for purchase on Association Presse Offset.

CIA GD is the Graphic Design BFA program at Cleveland Institute of Art. Its dedicated website was designed by CIA GD associate professor Adam Swift Lucas. Information about the course is colorfully set over a single page in Charles Mazé’s Axo (Abyme, 2024).

Parents Must Unite + Fight (or Hackney Flashers: Agitprop, Work, and Socialist Feminism in England) accompanies Camille Richert’s ongoing research on the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working class neighbourhood of Hackney, East London. A book as a tool, part placard, part board, in reference to the activist, artistic and educational practices of the Hackney Flashers. A book to hold and wave, a support for action and learning.

Published by Tombolo Presses, the book was designed by Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé and typeset in Mazé’s Axo (Abyme, 2024).

These posters were designed by French studio Image Format for the fourth edition of the music festival Les Trois Beaux Days that took place in July 2024 in Montmartre, Paris.

Each year, the Centre National des Arts Plastiques ( Cnap) collaborates with a different French graphic design studio in order to create its activity report. Cnap hands the contents to the studio, which then has complete freedom to chose format, paper, printer, organization, and, above all, how to create the design and especially the data visualization part.

For the 2023 edition, Roman Seban used his own typeface Bertin (205TF) for all the data representations in this report — screens, bullets, patterns. For some information, he also worked with the typeface Axo designed by Charles Mazé (Abyme).

The report can be downloaded as a PDF from the Cnap website.

Bibliothèque Kandinsky’s Summer University is a cultural programme organised by the Centre Pompidou in Paris. It is built around the source material of modern and contemporary art: archives, written documentation, photographs, films, etc. It gathers young researchers, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, critics, curators, who work together on this material. The Summer University includes writing workshops and archive visits. The result of this research is gathered into a journal, which each year is produced by a different designer.

Issue 8, “Show/Search” (2022) was designed by Olivier Lebrun. It is set in Axo Narrow (Abyme, released 2024), alongside a bespoke version of Lineto’s Biff with Script 12 Pitch and Univers Next.

Les voies du paradis gathers what is left from a lost work: footnotes from a missing text, left by a researcher after his death and edited by Peter Cornell. These notes and their illustrations form an incomplete ensemble, which is to be read through its missing parts. A thread connects the diagrams – images of spirals and labyrinths – that run through and echo the text.

Originally published in Sweden in 1987 under the title Paradisets vägar, Les voies du paradis was republished in 2023 by After 8 Books in Paris. It was designed by Olivier Lebrun and set in Axo Narrow (Abyme, released 2024), Century Schoolbook Monospace and Claude Sans.