Axel Pelletanche is a French/Paris-based graphic and type designer offering art direction, design solutions and consultancy services. After graduating from école boulle, école Duperré then école estienne in paris and 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.
Notable commissions include clients such as nike, Off-White™, delvaux, boiler room, deewee RECORDS, Galerie Perrotin, MO.CO. art center, artist Ndayé Kouagou, oddity, monsieur l’agent and many more. He is currently developing visual identities and graphics for acclaimed music artists and brands. Early 2020, he was appointed art director and designer of Trax magazine printed publication teaming up with Clément Gicquel. He designed retail fonts such as KNIF MONO AND TRABIS available THROUGH “A IS FOR FONTS”.
Collaborations
Ohlman Consorti, VLF studio, ill studio, LJBTN (Lolita Jacobs & Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet), Convoy, Yard Agency, DVTK, Building Paris, 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
teaching & Workshop
2021 WORKSHOP WITH MA Fashion / image, Media & Editorial, école duperré, paris fr
2020 GRAPHIC design and TEES, 0-93. LAB, AULNAY FR
2020 type design workshop WITH 3RD YEAR BA, école duperré, paris fr
2020 Graphic design WITH 2ND YEAR BA, école duperré, Paris FR
Exhibitions
2019 Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Poster Competition, Glasgow UK
2019 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, 2015—2021.
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