Brice Ammar-Khodja

Pied de mouche is a typographic research magazine. The first issue followed the thematic of liberty and was published in 2015 with 1000 copies distributed for free in French schools of art, design and specialized bookstores.

Considering that type-design and graphic design face the challenges of ever-changing professions, Pied de mouche #2 seeks to understand and analyze those new mutations. To do so, Pied de mouche #2 bets on opening a typographic dialogue with its users instead of its designers. The team has chosen the formats of interviews and free contributions to converge views and reflections, inviting makers, authors, creators, and thinkers whose work does not necessarily take roots into the field of graphic design to understand their intimate relationship with the so-called character.

Each chapter or article takes the form of a specific format, type font and printing process of its own, embodying its theme. The final product arose as a diversity of individual objects which answer the same research question.

The reader remains free to interconnect an article with another to merge its own very dialogues and interrogations.

With contributions from Marc Thébault, Jean Widmer, Lucille Théveneau, Bastien Gallet & Yoan de Roeck, Didier Kiefer, Alexis Zacchi, Olivier Létang, Charlotte Hoffman, Mathieu Didier and Loiq.