Journée d'étude

On Friday, October 18, 2024, le Signe invites students and enthusiasts to reflect on the issues relating to graphic design commissions, with international guest speakers. Join us at the Cinéma À l'Affiche in Chaumont for a day of lectures.

The program :

At the Cinéma À l'Affiche

10 am : welcome / introduction by Jean-Michel Géridan, Director of le Signe

10:15 am : Éphéméride : commissions

11 am : CNAP Véronique Marrier (CNAP), Le guide de la commande de design graphique - édition 2024

Break

2 pm : Niklaus Troxler ( DE translated into FR)

3 pm : Götz Gramlich ( DE or EN translated into FR)

(Scheduled to finish around 4 pm)

At le Signe

4:30 pm : Restitution of the Éphéméride residency: the commission

(Scheduled to finish around 6 pm)

The speakers :

Éphéméride

Founded at the end of 2020 by graphic designers Juliette Lefèvre, Lola Havez, Valentin Loubat and Luca Reverdit, Éphéméride is a medium made by and for players in the graphic and plastic arts.

As part of their residency at le Signe, the Éphéméride collective will be presenting their work on the theme of Commissioning in graphic design. They will be drawing on testimonies from practitioners to tackle the most secret aspect of graphic design.

Véronique Marrier

Véronique Marrier is curator of the graphic design collection at the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap). She is chief editor of the annual publication Graphisme en France, and has contributed to the development of graphic design acquisitions and commissions (typefaces “Infini” and “Faune”). 

Forf the 30th anniversary of the publication Graphisme en France and the publication of a new edition of the Guide de la commande de design graphique, Véronique Marrier, presents the actions developed by the establishment to structure and promote graphic design commissions.

Niklaus Troxler

Born in Willisau, Switzerland, in 1947, Niklaus Troxler studied graphic design at the Lucerne School of Art, following an apprenticeship in typography. Parallel to his studies, he was already organising jazz concerts in his hometown. He founded his graphic design studio in 1973 and organised the first Willisau Jazz Festival two years later. 

Internationally renowned for his cultural and activist posters, as well as his jazz festival, Troxler taught at the Stuttgart School of Art from 1998 to 2013 and has been a member of the AGI since 1989. Since retiring from teaching, Troxler has been developing new graphic and performative expressions, such as the “tapeworks” deployed in cultural venues around the world.

Götz Gramlich

Götz Gramlich is a German graphic designer born in 1974. After studying communication design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, he assisted the legendary Niklaus Troxler in Switzerland, before founding his studio gggrafik design in 2005 in Heidelberg. Member of the AGI - Alliance Graphique Internationale, he devotes most of his work to cultural commissions.

Götz Gramlich has been exhibiting his work worldwide for 20 years and takes part in international graphic events. He is also co-founder of the political poster festival Mut zur Wut (“Courage to rage”).

Until January 5, 2025, Götz Gramlich is the subject of a major exhibition at le Signe, gggraphik design - slay allegories, showcasing the designer's multifaceted work.

Photograph : Marc Domage