logotype_mencken.gif
 
Recent lettering designs


Logotype The Walrus. Art direction Brian Morgan, September-October 2008. Nameplate for The Walrus Magazine, 2008. A small size version was also designed. Check the new masterhead in action.

Lettering and logotypes

PTF specializes in producing custom typefaces and digitizing existing analogue designs. Custom typefaces, like proper lettering, can help companies express their corporate identities across the range of their activities.

Quotations for lettering and logotypes

Feel free to ask for a quotation. Don’t be afraid, we have experience with any sizes of clients, from individual to big companies and agencies!

Process

Letterings and logotypes comprise another part of the work done at PTF, whether that work is completely original or redrawn from designs by other people. Major clients include corporate & packaging agencies or directly.

 
Lettering examples

When the word Logotype is used, this mean, that we’ve done the creative work of it. When we use the word Lettering, our work just mean optimisation of existing letterforms done by the client; so, we just redesign them to make them more beautiful.

Some of the lettering and logos started from Typofonderie typefaces or the reverse, a new typeface started as a lettering: La Poste >Le Monde Courrier. Les Pecheries de Nossi-be, Brummell Club > Anisette. Tourtel, Maroussia > Apolline.

Logotype After School, for Dragon Rouge, 1993

Logotype lifting Air France, for RCSG Design, 2000

Logotype Autrement, for Éditions Autrement, 2002

Lettering Banania, for C’ba (never used), 1995

Logotype La belle iloise, for RCSG Design, 2000

Logotype Bleu d’Agathe, for Bleu d’Agathe, 2001

Logotype Brioni, for AR Media (New York), 2006

Logotype Brummell Club, for Scheiwiller design, 1998

Lettering Canadian Business, for Rogers Publishing limited, 2009

Lettering Chronopost, for Desgrippes Associates, 1995

Logotype Le Comptoir, for Paris Venise design, 2002

Logotype Double Douceur, for Raison Pure design, 1995

Logotype Duetto, for Dragon Rouge, 1993

Lettering EndlessStory, for Stories, 2007

Lettering Folkia, for Faidon Design, 2006

Lettering France Télécom, for Landor Associates, 2000

Logotype Gervais, for Mona Lisa (refused), 1999

Logotype Gloria Vanderbilt, for AR Media (New York), 2004

Logotype House of Deréon (Beyoncé Fashion line), for AR Media (New York), 2005

Lettering Impact, for Faidon Design, 2007

Lettering InfoMatin, for Nathalie Baylaucq, 1995

Logotype Kronenbourg, for Landor Associates, 2000

Logotype La Poste, for Dragon Rouge, 1993

Logotype Le Monde, for Le Monde, 1994

Logotype Libero, for Dragon Rouge, 1992

Logotype Macif, for BETC Design group, 2006

Logotype Madriz Magazine, for Revistas Exclusivas, 2006

Logotype Maroussia, for Dragon Rouge, 1990

Logotype Miniroulés, for Dragon Rouge, 1994

Lettering NewEdge, for The Creative Factory, 2007

Logotype Naturelle, for Paris Venise design, 2001

Logotype Nintendo Power Magazine, for Roger Black Design, 2005

Logotype Nossi Bé, for Dragon Rouge, 1992

Logotype Papeterie, for Scheiwiller design, 1998

Logotype Peaudouce, for Drgaon Rouge, 1993

Logotype Plancoët, for Dragon Rouge, 1991

Lettering Resort (Disney), for Landor Associates, 2002

Lettering Rondelé, for RSCG, 1994

Lettering Royal Cône, for C’ba, 1994

Lettering Spanghero, for Dragon Rouge, 1992

Logotype S. T. Dupont, for Landor Associates, 2003

Logotype Mont Saint Michel, for Dragon Rouge, 1994

Logotype Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, for Bddp Corporate, 1999

Logotype Technifibre, for Dragon Rouge, 1991

Lettering Thalés, for EuroRscg Corporate, 2000

Logotype Tonigencyl, for Dragon Rouge, 1991

Logotype Tourtel, for Dragon Rouge, 1991

Logotype Truffon, for Dragon Rouge, 1994

Logotype Uncle Ben’s, for Kéops, 1998

Logotype Valeo (Typeface only), for Dragon Rouge, 2004

Logotype Valvert, for Dragon Rouge, 1990

Logotype La Villageoise, for Dragon Rouge, 1993

Lettering Vivarte, for EuroRSCG Corporate, 2001

Logotype The Walrus. Nameplate for The Walrus Magazine, 2008

 
 
 

Porchez Typofonderie

Founded in 1994, Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for adventurous digital typographers. This is the first place in the world to buy our typefaces.

Jean François Porchez

After training as a graphic designer Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Founder of Typofonderie, his expertise enables him to propose beskope typefaces as well as distributing his fonts via his typofonderie.com website. He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale, taught type design in various schools and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He founded the french community Le Typographe in 2003. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998 and numerous prizes for his typefaces.

AwardsInterviewsExhibits

 

Specialized fonts

Porchez Typofonderie specializes in producing custom fonts, typefaces, digitizing existing analogue designs. A bespoke font family can meet specific requirements that standard market fonts and typefaces cannot. Please consult Jean François Porchez for a quotation or to simply ask for more specific information. The best is to use the form here, or to contact me by phone, email.

Lettering and logotypes

Letterings and logotypes comprise another part of the work done at PTF, whether that work is completely original or redrawn from designs by other people. Major clients include corporate & packaging agencies or directly.


Logotype The Walrus. Art direction Brian Morgan, September-October 2008. Nameplate for The Walrus Magazine, 2008. A small size version was also designed.

 

Contact me

Please use the form to contact directly Jean François Porchez.

Porchez Typofonderie

88 rue de Chatillon (map)
92140 Clamart, France
Phone 33 (0) 146 542 692
Fax

Ape 222g, Siren 398593798,
Siret 39859379800034,
Urssaf 920191241634001003,
Tva FR 35 398 593 798

Add to Technorati Favorites

 

 
{designed by Jean François Porchez in 2008 using 960 grid system and textpattern}