Revue Faire #50
210 x 297mm, 64 pages
Paris, France (Bilingual, French & English)
Published since 2017
Editors: Sacha Leopold & Francis Havegeer
Design: Syndicat
Authors (of this issue): Thierry Chancogne and Richard Niessen
Published every 15 days during the French university year, September to June, Revue Faire is a vital addition to the small selection of journals addressing graphic design from a critical standpoint. Every issue generally consists of a single essay on a different creative subject, presented in the magazine’s glorious graphic style.
This issue explores The Palace of Typographic Masonry, a website imagined as a fictional building housing various graphic design and visual ephemera. The majority of the issue functions like an exhibition catalogue for the site, showcasing a selection of objects from its various rooms and departments—Sign, Symbol, Poetics, Construction, Craft and more.
This is followed by a series of four exchanges between theorist Thierry Chancogne and Dutch designer Richard Niessen who conceived the ‘Palace’, delving into the details of the collection.
On the Journal
At Work With founders Sacha and François: ‘We started Revue Faire as we finished being weekly lecturers in graphic design schools. But the publishing rhythm is based on the school schedule—an issue every 15 days, from September to June. The main purpose is to deliver every 15 days a kind of small course about one specific topic. In that way, one season can become a kind of visual culture course in 15 lessons.’
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