Diplôme 2025
Entremêler, Jade Devaud (@jadeeedevaud )
« En 2024, j’ai eu la chance de pouvoir partir étudier les bases du design typographique japonais à Tokyo pendant trois mois, auprès de designers typographiques incroyablement talentueux : Akira Kobayashi, Ryota Doi, Yuya Nakamura et Shunya Morita. Parallèlement à ceci, j’ai suivi des cours de calligraphie japonaise, qui m’ont enseigné une posture, un geste et une nouvelle manière d’appréhender les traits et les courbes. De retour à Paris et à la suite de l’écriture de mon mémoire de master, j’ai décidé de travailler sur la conception d’un caractère typographique multilingue (japonais–latin) qui, plutôt que l’harmonie, cherche l’entremelement : un lien dans l’acceptation de la différence. Après trois mois de recherches expérimentales, l’utilisation du pinceau pour le japonais (pinceau pointu) comme pour le latin (pinceau plat), combinée à l’emploi d’un type de pression commun, est devenue le point de départ du design. Ces paramètres me permettaient d’expérimenter sans décontextualiser et sans porter atteinte aux origines formelles de ces systèmes d’écriture. En dessinant les caractères japonais et latins conjointement, et en recevant des retours de professionnels pour le japonais comme pour le latin, j’ai cherché à tisser une co-existence cohérente entre ces deux systèmes d’écriture. »
Still can’t believe I had the chance to both attend and speak at @atypi_org this year—truly unforgettable! Thank you so much @bymonotype for making it possible; I’ll be forever grateful!
I got to share the stage with Ryota Doi and Tao Di where we delved into CCJK Type design from both professional and foreign type designers’ perspectives. My part focused on the insights I gained during my internship at @bymonotype in Tokyo where I was mentored by Akira Kobayashi and Ryota Doi, as well as what I learned from the incredible calligraphy class I took alongside (thank you again Ayumi!).
It was so nice to reconnect with friends and meet so many inspiring people, under the beautiful blue skies of Copenhagen.
Thank you @atypi_org ! ✨🇩🇰
📸 @willieeeeee4624@thanhpolverel@theo.azemard Ryota Doi
Jade Devaud will be a speaker at ATypI Copenhagen, April 22–26, 2025. Venue is the Royal Danish Academy. Join us! 🇩🇰
/conferences-events/atypi-copenhagen-2025/
We can’t wait to see you there!
#ATypICopenhagen #ATypI2025
#typefaces #typedesign #typography #graphicdesign #calligraphy #lettering #designeducation #techtalks #conference #Copenhagen #atypicreativeteam
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Here is the marble engraved. I’m glad with the result even though there are little chips 🔨 It’s got me curious to try carving other types of stone next 🗿
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October’s 2024 lapidary engraving workshop at @dsaadt
Back at it with a stunning piece of marble again! 🗿 Started with sketches, transferred the design onto the stone, and engraving. Hard job but it’s fascinating to watch the light slowly bring the drawing to life✨
Master’s dissertation done at @dsaadt ! 🐥
This is an extract from my research on Japanese latin fonts, exploring their origin to their use today within the Japanese writing system. I examine whether the specific typographic characteristics of the Japanese and Latin writing systems constitute an obstacle or a constructive constraint to designing a shared space. After providing an overview of the history of Japanese scripts systems and the arrival of latin in Japan through Jesuit missions, I explored the singularities and interplay of both Latin and Japanese scripts.
Here's a variation of the drawbot animation made with @hugojourdan (and thanks to the patience and help of @shespoke2me )🕺featuring the first draft of a new sans sketched the other day. It wasn't convincing at first, but I found my answer on the cover of Black Survival by Roy Brooks & The Artistic Truth✨while leafing through a jazz covers anthology book I borrowed from @shespoke2me
Glimpse of the funky shapes of MfBohm's Extrabold Italic (w/ @shespoke2me ) 👀. The animation was made using drawbot during a workshop with @hugojourdan 🔧 (@abcdinamo ) thanks to his precious help ⭐️.
April 2024 - @dsaadt ’s annual lapidary engraving workshop at @villa_medici in Rome. So glad to have had the chance to visit and work in such a magnificent place ! 🏛️
Engraving on Carrara marble ⛏️
My classmates and I had the chance to experience marbled paper in December 2023. Thank you @lespetitesmains for introducing your field to us. It was refreshing to make something with our hands 🙌
Still late 🏄 some pictures of my BA project June 2023. First draft.
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Following my BA post-graduate dissertation went the idea of designing a collection of contemporary bilingual Japanese short stories aimed at intermediate learners. 📚 My aim was twofold: to offer both a more accessible reading medium and an alternative learning tool. I’ve integrated a means of revising vocabulary using a red filter which also offers the possibility of reading with or without help (particles are coloured, ruby next to kanji).
As reading a language you’re learning requires note-taking and back-and-forth between the book and the dictionary, I’ve chosen to target the help provided. Everything (vocabulary, French translation, note space) is divided according to the Japanese text, page by page. In the course of my research, I was advised by a lecturer at INALCO and a Japanese language student @bangeden3 😉 who were able to take my ideas further. 🫶
