Rémi Forte

Experience

Foundry Manager

205TF (Lyon, France)

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Lead type design projects, manage client relationships, and develop communication strategies.

Typography Lecturer

Strate école de design (Lyon, France)

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Teach typography principles, focusing on typeface selection, usage, and foundational design concepts.

Organizer, TypoLyon Lecture Series

Strate école de design (Lyon, France)

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Coordinate and develop a lecture series highlighting the local typographic community.

Graphic and Typographic Designer

Freelance (Lyon, France)

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Specialize in editorial design, typography, and type design.

Graphic Design Lecturer

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (Lyon, France)

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Supervised digital projects for the Master’s in Graphic Design program.

Education

PhD Candidate in Research-Creation

Université Paris 8 (Paris, France)

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Research focus: Poetic Program, Typographic System (TransCrit Research Unit).

Post-Master’s Degree in Typography Research

Atelier national de recherche typographique (Nancy, France)

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Master of Graphic Design

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (Lyon, France)

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Bachelor of Graphic Design

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (Lyon, France)

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Degree in Visual Communication

École Estienne (Paris, France)

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Lectures

205TF Type Foundry Presentation

Puces Typos (Paris, France)

Presented an overview of recently released typefaces from the 205TF Type Foundry.

Poetic Python, Typographic Python

Meetup Python (Lyon, France)

Discussed the integration of Python into research and creative projects, focusing on the intersection of poetry and typography.

Poetic Program, Typographic System

Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Presented research and creative developments spanning seven years, combining poetry and typographic systems.

Discussion on A thousand times from A to Z

Maison de la Poésie (Rennes, France)

Engaged in a discussion about the book produced during an artistic residency at Maison de la Poésie as part of the Carrément #2 event.

The Creative Process Behind A thousand times from A to Z

Édulab Pasteur (Rennes, France)

Delivered a presentation on the development of the book during an artistic residency.

Fiction and Data in Poetry and Typography

Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Lyon, France)

Explored the role of data in research-creation at an international conference, with a focus on poetry and typography.

How I Write and Design Crosswords

LPO André Malraux (Montereau Fault-Yonne, France)

Explained the creative process behind the book Crosswords to students.

A Generative Approach to Poetry and Typography

Rencontres internationales de Lure (Lurs, France)

Presented generative approaches to poetry and typography.

TypoFilm #2: Helvetica

Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)

Presented an overview of the Helvetica typeface, accompanying a screening of experimental films from the museum’s collection.

Typefaces

Krata

205TF (France)

Krata is a generative, minimalist variable font, created with Python, that explores the boundaries of type design.

Publications

The Spectre of Mallarmé

No Press (Canada)

sans langage Pensées

Revue Formules #22 (USA)

Pour avoir un accent il faut être deux

Revue Sabir #2 (Belgium)

Workshops

New Kids on the Blockchain

Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Facilitated a workshop introducing students to generative design using Python.

Experimental Typographic Systems

LPO André Malraux (Montereau Fault-Yonne, France)

Led a workshop on experimental typographic design within constrained systems.

Run the Rules

Campus Fonderie de l’image (Bagnolet, France)

Conducted a workshop on experimental typographic design under constraint, in collaboration with Simon Renaud.

Editorial Design

École nationale supérieure d’art et de design (Nancy, France)

Taught foundational principles of editorial design and typography, in collaboration with Éloïsa Perez.

Editorial Design

École nationale supérieure d’art et de design (Nancy, France)

Taught foundational principles of editorial design and typography, in collaboration with Clément Le-Tulle Neyret.

Jury Member

Master’s in Communication (Arts and Graphic Languages)

École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine (Metz, France)

Bachelor’s in Graphic Design

LPO André Malraux (Montereau Fault-Yonne, France)

Master’s in Art Direction for Graphic Design

Campus Fonderie de l’Image (Bagnolet, France)

Exhibitions

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Maison de l’Architecture (Amiens, France)

Contributed to the collective project Long Distance Drawing featuring work produced with a pen plotter.

Algorithms

Repère(s) (Lyon, France)

Solo exhibition showcasing a series of pen plotter drawings.

This word doesn’t exist

The Wrong Biennale (online)

Participated in a group exhibition focusing on the semiotic shifts driven by the Internet.

Algolit

Mundaneum (Mons, Belgique)

Contributed to a collective exhibition exploring the intersection of algorithms and literature.

Press Review

Krata is a Typeface that Bridges Design and Programming

Print Magazine (USA)

Reviewed by Kim Tidwell.

Épanouissement Personnel

Étapes Magazine #240 (France)

Reviewed by Marion Bothorel.

Awards

Recipient of the Partners’ Prize

École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (Lyon, France)