Axel Pelletanche, Graphic- & Type design practice.

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Axel Pelletanche Thévenart is a French/Paris-based graphic and type designer offering art direction, design and consultancy service for a variety of clients operating in fashion, music, art, sport or culture. After gaining experience in London and Berlin, he spent two years working at Ohlman Consorti collaborating alongside clients such as Dior, A.P.C. or Vogue Paris magazine. He designed and released the fonts Knif Mono and Trabis through “A is for” type foundry (see also on fontsinuse.com).
Notable commissions include Off-White™ S/S 2019 show invites and tees, A.P.C. BAM BAM parties flyers (3–9), corporate typeface for MO.CO. art center, ongoing collaboration with performance artist Ndayé Kouagou or design for Galerie Perrotin’s 2018 Yearbook alongside VLF studio. He was recently appointed Trax Magazine’s art director and designer (from nº228–) teaming up with Clément Gicquel.

Experiences and Collaborations

Ohlman Consorti, VLF studio, ill studio, LJBTN (Lolita Jacobs & Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet Napoleone), Convoy, Yard Agency, Nike Paris City Studio, DVTK, BuildingParis, Marc Armand, Zoo designers graphiques, Funny Bones, B.A.M. Studio, Unfun, Fondazione, Mark Jenkins.
Publications

2019 Is the Internet Down? Draw Down books USA
2019 Graphisme en France | Typographie, Cnap FR
2019 The letter A looks like the Eiffel Tower, Type Trouble FR
2019 Ficciones Typografika 1642, Formist AUS
2019 Shoplifters 8: New Type Design, Actual Source US
2018 It’s Nice That | Review of the Year 2018: Top 25 Graphic Design UK
2018 Slanted #32 Dubai, Contemporary Typefaces feature DE
2018 Revue Diorama #01 “Legibility” FR
2018  It’s Nice That (3) Knif pronounce Ka-neef UK
2018 YBR* Young Black Romantics #01 FR
2018  Back Catalogue (4) UK
2018 Oripeau, 16200cm² | 1750×910, Atelier La Casse FR
2018  Typodarium Calendar, Verlag Hermann Schmidt DE
2017  Typographica.org Favorite Fonts of 2016 (for Knif mono) US
2017  Et & Ampersands, Velvetyne/-zeug FR
2017 Revue « Sales caractères » FR
2017  FrancoFont January, pointypo– FR
2017  Typodarium Calendar, Verlag Hermann Schmidt DE
2016 It’s Nice That | More superb work playfully presented (…) UK
2016  étapes: FR
2016  Back Catalogue (3) UK
2016  ThisIsPaper PL
2016  Pangramme’s Catalogue FR
2016  Ligature (interview) CH
2016  365Typo Volume 2 FR
2016 École Estienne’s Graduation catalogue FR
2016 Revue 404, ESAD Saint-Étienne FR
2015  It’s Nice That | (…) young graphic designer with a big talent UK
2015  Back Catalogue (2) UK
2015  École Duperré’s Graduation catalogue FR
2015  Back Catalogue (1) UK
2015  Revue Après\Avant nº03, Rencontres de Lure FR
Exhibitions

2019 Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Poster Competition, Glasgow UK
2019 Syrup Mag. | Designing Protest, People’s History Museum, Manchester UK
2019 Adapt | Sadness is a No go-zone, Copeland Gallery, London UK
2018 Copies/Multiples | Quintal Éditions, 59 RIvoli, Paris FR
2018 Neue Schriften/New Typefaces, Kunstraum Pro Arte, Salzburg AT
2018  Pangramme, Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig DE
2018  Veni Vidi Vici, Oripeau nº97, Nantes FR
2017  Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Poster Competition, Glasgow UK
2017  Pangramme, ATypI/Université du Québec, Montréal CA
2017  Pangramme, Biennale de Design Graphique/Les Silos, Chaumont FR
2017  NRMAL Festival, International Poster Exhibition, Mexico MX
2016  Pangramme, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Amiens FR
2016  Pangramme, Award: Matthieu Cortat’s Favorite, ESAL, Metz FR
2015  Ficciones Typografika 778-780, Minneapolis US
2014  Ficciones Typografika 660-662, Minneapolis US
Imprint

All work depicted © Axel Pelletanche Thévenart, 2014—2020.
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