Thomas Huot-Marchand

Thomas Huot-Marchand
Period: 2006-2007
Occupation: Designer Born in 1977 in Dole, Jura, he lives and works in Besançon. A freelance graphic designer and typographer, he teaches graphic design and typography at the Besançon School of Fine Arts and the Amiens School of Art and Design. After studying at the Beaux-Arts in Besançon and Madrid, in 2001 he was awarded a scholarship to work as a researcher at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy. There, he developed a typeface, Minuscule, for extremely small sizes (from 6 to 2 points), based on the work of Émile Javal, a 19th-century ophthalmologist (genius, and blind). This typeface won the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the Type Directors Club of New York’s 2005 TDC2 international competition. Winner of the Fond d’Incitation à la Création (FIACRE) in 2003, he founded his own foundry, 256tm, which will soon be producing Minuscule and Garaje (a modular, mechanical typeface in over 80 versions, developed since 1999). His research work has been the subject of numerous conferences and publications in France and abroad. As a resident at the Académie de France in Rome between April 2006 and April 2007, he developed a new typeface at the Villa Médicis, exploring the epigraphic and calligraphic origins of the first Roman typefaces of the 15th century.