Alphabestiaire
by Eugénie Bidaut & Atelier Baudelaire
2024-2025

Relevant font: Hérissant·e

As part of the opening of the Cité internationale de la langue française at the Château de Villers-Cotterêts, the Centre des monuments nationaux, the Imprimerie nationale, and the Centre national des arts plastiques have joined forces to launch an artist residency dedicated to creation, research, and experimentation around the theme “Typographing the Francophonie, or the Typographed Francophonie.” Eugénie Bidaut and the Atelier Baudelaire have devised an alphabet that references French-language…

L’Amicale de Misère
by Juliette Brishoual, Mariel Nils
2023

Relevant font: Misère

Juliette Brishoual and Mariel (NTF) got together to draw and explore Brussels’ brownfield sites. From these moments, a first typeface has emerged. A ‘Misère’ typeface was released under the Amicale licence, on the principle that purchasing this item grants access to subsequent versions of the typeface. The herbal teas and cyanotypes featured in this font were made from bramble and yarrow leaves gathered in the Wiels marsh. An impromptu marsh, which appeared in the lower part of Forest…

Le Jardin d’Hiver
by Maxence Doucet, Clémence Estingoy, Juliette Brishoual
2021-2022

Relevant font: Misère

Juliette Brishoual and Mariel (NTF) met in spring 2023 in a park to swap cuttings. They discuss the exhibition Dans un pli du temps at the Art & Marges Museum, during which Juliette, together with Clémence Estingoy and Maxence Doucet, sketches the first letters of a typeface. This set of letters is brought to life on the exhibition walls using stencil machines to write herbal tea recipes. Their installation Le Jardin d’Hiver showcases a multidisciplinary, collective and delicate practice.…