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Olivier Bertrand designs page-based objects that are sometimes folded and sometimes not, sometimes digital and sometimes printed.
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. 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. 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 some books including Baukunst monograph, a glossary for the use of asthenic villains, 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, some web pages, and a medievalist typeface.
In parallel with his design and publishing activities, he teaches typography and editorial design at ESA le 75, Brussels.
