Issy-les-Moulineaux, june 2010. Let’s come back to windshields. We saw recently that they provide a great exhibition space: a useful showcase where books can be exposed or message displayed without getting spoiled by rain or wind. But they also offer […]
Lancaster, december 2010. From the very beginning of our experience as a pedestrian, we are told to be careful. Crossing a street is never obvious. It is rather a risky business. As kids, we do not pay attention to this […]
Paris, june 2009. We have been trying to show it since the beginning of Scriptopolis: public lettering is extremely diverse. One can find very different kinds of signs and marks in cities. Yet, their very coexistence is not always peaceful. […]
On highway, 2010. Scriptopolis has given many insights into the wonderful innovations and the extraordinary multiplicity of a simple door. It is a means to interlink and distinguish two spaces : inside and outside, here and there, free circulation and […]
We have often insisted on the traces that writing can produce. Its ability to dislocate situations, to transport them from one place to another, from one moment to another. In our times of all-powerful forms, these written traces are crucial. […]
Paris, june 2010. We are regularly told that writing is pregnant with our intimacy, that it is marked by our personality, that it is the ultimate trace of our acts. However, such a particular vehicle is not naturally seen. Reading […]
Clamart, march 2011. We live in a world of archives. We spend a lot of time producing or classifying documents which are only made to testify about our lives. What we bought, what we earned, what we did. These records […]
Paris, march 2011. Footnotes are part of the diverse elements that progressively took place during the long rise of the printing press and the graphic space reorganization of books. Today notes are fully part of our reading and writing practices: […]
Paris, march 2011. Springtime is a delight for scriptopolian people. As the nature awakes day after day, he looks away from writing for once. He pays attention to the small vegetable marks that announce the great transformation, to the light, […]
Toulouse, august 2009. For some, it is very often, indeed every day. For others, it is rather on saturdays. All of them walk down the street and, above all, they quiver with the idea to go shopping. Buying the last […]