Everybody knows Happy Families. Here is a game of Happy Design Families to discover design while having fun!

This game, created by Claire Gautier and accompanied by illustrations by Simon Bailly, is an opportunity to familiarise yourself with, learn about, and understand design, its various applications and the place it occupies in everyday life… Through a selection of objects (biomorphic, popular, useful, engaged, iconic, …), this game displays a panorama of design. It gives an overview of the successive movements in design—from its beginnings to the present day—and presents the conceptual approaches that define these objects.

For the typography, Bureau 205 used the typeface Maax Micro, designed by Damien Gautier and distributed by 205TF.

Hors-Site (mais pas hors-sol) (in English: “Off-site (but not off-ground)”) ran from September 28 to November 30, 2023 at the Maison de l’Architecture in Paris. The exhibition revisits the depths of a history made up of prototypes and bold architectural experimentation, as well as, quite the opposite, mass-produced and rationalized industrial processes. Looking to the future, it also examines the relevance of off-site production in contemporary times, and its new frontiers: digital innovation, robotization, 3D printing…

The scenography and communication were entrusted to graphic designer Céline Andreassen. She used the typefaces Maax Micro (Damien Gautier, 205TF) and Google’s Roboto.

Somewhere between a magazine and a fanzine, A°2022 is an original editorial object co-published by École urbaine de Lyon and Éditions deux-cent-cinq. It brings together texts by numerous authors from a variety of scientific, literary and artistic fields that allow us to understand the notion of the Anthropocene.

What we propose to call the “Anthropocene” is the historical moment that began after 1945 with the onset of the phase of generalised urbanisation of the planet, during which it becomes undeniable that human activities are having an increasingly strong impact on biophysical systems. These upheavals can be observed everywhere, both globally and locally. To such an extent that the Earth’s habitability for humans and non-humans is being questioned.

The aim here is to revisit thought and social phenomena based on the recognition of this crisis of habitability on an unprecedented scale and to propose avenues for reflection and action so that we can collectively invent new ways of co-habiting.

Ensuring that we can reflect on and discuss these major contemporary issues is a requirement at the heart of the second issue of the magazine and of the Urban School's public service mission.

To design this publication, Bureau 205 have exclusively used fonts distributed by 205TF: Amiral, Maax Micro, Maax, Maax Mono, Maax Mono Stencil, Maax Unicase, Plaak by Damien Gautier; Bartok by Sarah Kremer; Cardone, Cardone Micro by Fátima Lázaro; Bertin by Roman Seban; and Exposure by Federico Parra Barrios.