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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 book-pendulum, 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.
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.
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2019, Helmut Eisendle
Translation: Catherine Fagnot
Publisher: Vies Parallèles
Printing: INNI Print, Belgium
3000 copies, 11,6 × 18,5 cm, 160 pages