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Writting letters with Morgane Saintorens and Helene Parriel. We have been asked to imagine the decoration of a wine tank, in Chateau Larrivet Haut Brion. The theme was calligraphy, and emotions. Morgane and Helene, imagined a composition made out of different letters, and created a beautiful texture keeping the wine glass shape empty. The result was astonishing, and it was a very exiting project for the studenst as well as for me. During three days in a very cold weather, they wrote letter after letter.

The Alphabettes Mentorship program aims to help people, especially students and professional newcomers, to immerse themselves in the industry. Since 2020, I have been a mentor in their program. It has been a fantastic experience in many ways. I hope to be posting some of the works we have been doing with the mentees anytime soon. In the meantime Check out their inspiring website. https://www.alphabettes.org/

Atypi São Paulo 2015, gathered so many different people from different backgrounds and companies together in one place around typography, sharing the new studies, very high level workshops and mostly the fabulous exchanges it generated around letters in all their forms and in all the languages. I strongly believe it is an unique experience, that wakens inspiration, and opens to new perspectives.

Né à Paris en 1962, Philippe Apeloig poursuit des études de graphisme à l’École supérieure des arts appliqués « Duperré » et à l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Ensad). Il entre en stage chez Total Design à Amsterdam, puis collabore avec April Greiman à Los Angeles. Fondant son propre studio à Paris, en 1989, il travaille essentiellement dans le champ culturel – Carré d’Art de Nîmes, Culturesfrance, Institut national d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, musée du Louvre, musée Rodin, théâtre du Châtelet, etc. Il se singularise notamment par un emploi renouvelé de la lettre et par…