Les Ateliers du Magnolia is a French artist residency based in Haute-Saône. It offers designers a creative space for the duration of a residency.

Duo Impair graphic design studio created the visual identity for the residency and is also developing it, for example with this exhibition booklet. It was printed for the first exhibition of Les Ateliers du Magnolia, hosted by ARCADE Design à la campagne.

The sans serif font is a custom font named Magnole. It was designed by Hadrien Tranchant from Duo Impair after a wood typeface found in a catalog issued by Manufacture de caractères en bois et de matériel d’imprimerie A. Martin et Cie, Ardon, Valais, Switzerland, around 1900. It’s paired with WS Kateka by WrittenShape.

CRC Studio designed a special edition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1870 revolt in southern Martinique led by former slaves in their fight for fundamental rights. Made in partnership with the Collectivité Territoriale de Martinique and the Campus Caraïbéen des Arts.

In April 2021 the Master Studio Culture and Identity at the University of the Arts (HfK) Bremen went on a trip to a place in Germany called Paradies. Based on the actual place we went for an aesthetic examination of an everlasting place of longing: “paradise”.

The students explored their own experiences and ideals regarding paradise and expressed them through a variety of media like texts, photographs, illustrations, graphics and sound. The different perspectives change between the here and the beyond, between tangible and abstract and between the visible and the invisible.

140 pages, 205×270 mm, edition: 120 copies

Yamabuki, the latest movie by Juichiro Yamasaki, is “a story of finding a place to root yourself when life’s obstacles have dispirited you”. The movie poster by Aurélia Monnier is issued in two variants which both pair a photograph by Yoshiyuki Uchibori with a movie logo using Arsenica; the small type is set in Frutiger.

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