From Roubaix to Commercial

Sandrine Nugue enjoys playing with signs and will demonstrate it through a presentation of Orientation, a typeface originally commissioned for the wayfinding system of a new student housing building in Roubaix. After an overview to her general approach, she will explain and focus on the process of its project: from initial constraints, to references, until its development with several weights and styles, for a final released by a foundry. And because type design is infinite, Orientation is still growing up.

Sandrine Nugue is an independent type & graphic designer based in Paris. She graduated from the post-graduate program of Ésad Amiens and then she divides her time between her type design and graphic design practice, and while also lecturing and teaching workshops in France and abroad. In 2015, she designed a free typeface family named Infini, the first public commission by The Centre National des Arts Plastiques.