ECV design workshop

April 2018

Recently TypeTogether was approached by the renowned French design studio deux point deux, led by Laure Le Fol and Renaud Paumero, to collaborate on a project they were planning for a workshop with 4th and 5th year students of the ECV Creative School in Nantes, France. Their proposal involved lending the students a selection of TypeTogether fonts to be used in the workshop projects.

“I would love to [provide the students] the opportunity of a partnership with an excellent and different foundry.”

Laure and Renaud from deux point deux, chose the term ‘emotions’ as the subject for the workshop. Groups of two to three students were arbitrarily given one photo, lent by photographer Germain Herriau, and asked to use the emotions they felt while watching the images to imagine a fictive brand or non-profit organisation. This starting point led them to choose a typeface amongst TypeTogether’s outstanding catalog to convey these emotions and intuitions to the public. The selection fell to LFT Etica by Leftloft, Protipo and Abril by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, Alverata by Gerard Unger, Lipa Agate by Ermin Međedović, and Soleil by Wolfgang Homola.

The students’ task was to create a brand and its visual identity using the chosen typefaces as a base, a poster, a website homepage, and two or three surprising communication tools. The aim was, using what the students know so far about emotional marketing, to effectively move viewers to agree with the students’ chosen cause.


Boï by Klervie Hamon and Yujian Deng: When a child sits down by themself in the corner, they may not be sad at all but having the time of their day!


Soleil by Elsa Gohier and Clémence Gouy: Only modern light bulbs truly reveal who you are!

DNA by Yujia Dong, Amélie Allégret, and Sophie-Caroline Barbier: When forests are cut off, humanity’s legacy is cut down.


selected projects

Whereas the workshop leaders were very much impressed with all the projects, they chose to focus on three very different projects:

1) Boï by Klervie Hamon and Yujian Deng:
When a child sits face down by themself in the corner, they may not be sad at all but having the time of their day!

2) Soleil by Elsa Gohier and Clémence Gouy:
Only modern light bulbs truly reveal who you are!

3) DNA by Yujia Dong, Amélie Allégret and Sophie-Caroline Barbier:
When forests are cut off, humanity’s legacy is cut down.


”It's hard to express how much it means to us to allow students to use kick-ass photos and fonts!”

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Boï by Klervie Hamon and Yujian Deng.




Soleil by Elsa Gohier and Clémence Gouy.




DNA by Yujia Dong, Amélie Allégret, and Sophie-Caroline Barbier.



other workshop projects

The other students participating were:
Anne-Catherine Klocker & Quentin Prigent (Lamacciu)
Cécile Nollier & Camille Lambert (Made in Rights)
Juliette Le Priellec & Nicolas Pellerin (Atelier élémentaire)
Elisa Le Corre & Ophélie Dumoulin (Waow!)
Léa Robin & Margot Leven (Daydream)
Alice Cibart & Claire Vimont (Proxima)

A big thanks to them!

Members of the jury were: Brice Retailleau, Catherine Loget, deuxpointdeux (Laure Le Fol & Renaud Paumero). The workshop took place at the ECV Creative School in Nantes, France.

Lamacciu by Anne-Catherine Klocker & Quentin Prigent.

Atelier élémentaire by Juliette Le Priellec & Nicolas Pellerin.




Made in Rights by Cécile Nollier & Camille Lambert.


Waow! by Elisa Le Corre & Ophélie Dumoulin.




Daydream by Léa Robin & Margot Leven

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