UW // Letters from France /

// This event is free and open to the public //

Renowned French type designer Jean François Porchez lectures on the pragmatic aspects of type design as well as the intellectual, cultural, and historic contexts of letters. Best-known for designing the typefaces for the French newspaper Le Monde, Porchez has also designed logos and custom typefaces for the Paris Metro, the Moulin Rouge, France Télécom, Louis Vuitton, Peugeot, Renault, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, Beyoncé Knowles's House of Deréon, the Baltimore Sun, and Real Simple magazine, among others.

Porchez is an honorary President of the Association Typographique Internationale (the leading organization for type design), and regularly conducts type design workshops all over the world. He teaches type design at Ensad in Paris and at the University of Reading in the U.K., and was awarded the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot for typeface design in 1998. His work has also been honored by the TDC, Creative Review, the Club Des Directeurs Artistiques,and the Morisawa International Type Design Competition.

For more information on Jean François Porchez, see: http://www.typofonderie.com/

This program is presented by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Division of Design in the School of Art and the Division of French & Italian Studies, with additional support from the UW Center for West European Studies, the French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest, and Alliance Française de Seattle.

---------------------------------------------------

Directions and Parking Information for Kane Hall:

http://www.css.washington.edu/KNE_Directions

Kane Hall shown in this campus map:

http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=KNE

There is also a free UW i-phone/blackberry app with a campus map:

http://m.uw.edu/

---------------------------------------------------

For questions (or if you want to RSVP but do not have a Facebook account) please contact Karen Cheng at kcheng@uw.edu