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Olivier Bertrand designs and publishes page-based objects.
His research into publishing focuses on typo·graphic practices that play with the limits of the visual representation of language
and question the relationship between the notions of legibility and visibility. That's why he runs a publishing house called Surfaces Utiles, where he also experiments with alternative economic models for the publishing industry. Since 2015, he has edited La Perruque, a 90 centimetre long magazine printed in the margins of regular documents, and publishing nonstandard type specimens.
He has designed and/or edited some books including Publi Fluor, Letter Business in Brussels, the essential How to Survive After Art School?, Baukunst monograph, a glossary for the use of asthenic villains, the fictional biography of Stéphane Mandelbaum, a book-pendulum, the last misdeeds of Maxime Le Bon, Le Gamin, SPEED, a brick by Jack Spicer and another by Hans Faverey, Armand Schwerner’s Tablettes, Pierre Leguillon's Légende punaisée dans le ciel, Dieter Roth au Frac Bretagne, Adelheid Duvanel’s monads, The Space in Between, Landing Gardens catalogue, Quaderni magazine, an issue of Camera, other poetry books. And other typography works.
He contributed to the Not Comic typeface and designed Pogge,inspired by Carolingian minuscule.
In parallel with his design and publishing activities, he teaches typography and editorial design at ESA Le 75, Brussels.
He also wrote Froncer les sourcils(.pdf), a critical essay about the economy of contemporary publishing practices, and Les clôtures du paradis, a walk from enclosed gardens to illuminated pages.
Olivier Bertrand designs and publishes page-based objects.
His research into publishing focuses on appropriation and hacking the leftover from industrial production. With similar mindset, he runs a publishing house called Surfaces Utiles. Since 2015, he has edited La Perruque, a 90 centimetre long magazine printed in the margins of regular documents, and publishing nonstandard type specimens.
He has designed and/or edited some books including Publi Fluor, Letter Business in Brussels, the essential How to Survive After Art School?, Baukunst monograph, a glossary for the use of asthenic villains, the fictional biography of Stéphane Mandelbaum, A Few Homers, the last misdeeds of Maxime Le Bon, Le Gamin, SPEED, two bricks, Armand Schwerner’s Tablettes, Pierre Leguillon's Légende punaisée dans le ciel, Dieter Roth au Frac Bretagne, Adelheid Duvanel’s monads, The Space in Between, Landing Gardens catalogue, Quaderni magazine, an issue of Camera, other poetry books, and a medievalist typeface.
In parallel with his design and publishing activities, he teaches typography and editorial design at ESA Le 75, Brussels.
He also wrote Froncer les sourcils(.pdf), a critical essay about the economy of contemporary publishing practices, and Les clôtures du paradis, a walk from enclosed gardens to illuminated pages.
Dieter Roth au Frac Bretagne
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2015, Collectionner, conserver, exposer le graphisme.
Entretiens autour du travail de Dieter Roth au Frac Bretagne
Designed with Chloé Bernhardt and Justin Bihan
Publishers: Frac Bretagne & EESAB – Rennes
Printing: Média Graphic
1000 copies, 16,5 × 23 cm, 112 pages
Du design graphique au Frac Bretagne, entretiens
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A kind of conversation between: Alexandru Balgiu, Leszek Brogowski, Jocelyn Cottencin, Béatrice Didier, Béatrice Lamarque, Laurence Lépron, Alain Le Quernec, Véronique Marrier, Philippe Millot, Laurel Parker, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié and Yann Sérandour.
Exhibition designed with Chloé Bernhardt and Justin Bihan.
Coordination: Catherine de Smet, Kévin Donnot, Isabelle Jégo