Jean Francois Porchez

Current

• Founder member at SND France
• Founder at Le Typographe
• Founder, Owner at Porchez Typofonderie

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Past

• President at ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale)
• Type director at Dragon Rouge
• Employee at Fnac

Education

• Imprimerie Nationale
• Emsat

Recommended

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Connections

174 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Company
• French Type community
• My Blog

Jean Francois Porchez’s Summary

After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs custom typefaces for the Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Louis Vuitton, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris), as well as distributing internationally his retail typefaces via his typofonderie.com website. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has created a revival of the Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond in 2002.

He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale (was ATypI President in 2004–2007). He taught type design at the MA typefaces design at the Reading University (United Kingdom) and at Ensad and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Françaises, a book (in French & English) that shows all contemporary French, digital typefaces. In late 2001 he was the President of a jury set up by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale to select the new handwriting model and system for France and was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type design Contest.

He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998. FF Angie (1990) & Apolline (1993) were prize-winning entries in the Morisawa typeface competition. Costa received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2000. Ambroise, Anisette, Anisette Petite, Charente, Le Monde Journal, & Le Monde Courrier were all prize-winning entries in the Bukva:raz international competition (2001). Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards (2006). Parisine Office won a star at the Observeur du design 07.

Jean Francois Porchez’s Specialties:

Custom fonts, Type, Lettering, Typography, Branding and identity, etc.

Jean Francois Porchez’s Experience

• Founder member

  SND France

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

  Founder member of the French chapter of the Society for Newsdesign.
  http://www.snd-fr.org/
  http://www.snd-fr.org/news/categoryfront.php/id/42/Chapitre_Francophone.html

• Founder

  Le Typographe

  (Graphic Design industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

  French community for the promotion of typography.
  http://www.typographe.com

• Founder, Owner

  Porchez Typofonderie

  (Graphic Design industry)

  October 1994 — Present (15 years 2 months)

  The objective of the foundry was to propose the Jean Francois Porchez typefaces in a exclusive way without the help of retails-local distributors. It can be understood as way to control all the sales process and support. Along theses years, some interns, and few people worked internally or externally with Jean Francois Porchez. Today, its still a one man operation company.
  http://www.typofonderie.com
  
  This foundry born unofficially circa 1994, and launched his first retails typefaces in 1995 with Apolline, Angie Sans and Anisette. Followed by custom fonts project as Le Monde in 1994.

Additional Information

Jean Francois Porchez’s Websites:

• My Company
• French Type community
• My Blog

Jean Francois Porchez’s Groups:

ATypI, Snd

•    Drupal
•    Society for News Design
•    Type Directors Club
•    Linotype
•    Typophile
•    Khatt Foundation
•    TypeCon
•    ATypI
•    FontLab

Jean Francois Porchez’s Honors:

He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998. FF Angie (1990) & Apolline (1993) were prize-winning entries in the Morisawa typeface competition. Costa received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2000. Ambroise, Anisette, Anisette Petite, Charente, Le Monde Journal, & Le Monde Courrier were all prize-winning entries in the Bukva:raz international competition (2001). Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards (2006). Parisine Office won a star at the Observeur du design 07.

Jean Francois Porchez’s Contact Settings

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