Hello, my name is Lucas Descroix.
I like to draw shapes and build systems. I make custom and retail typefaces, design books, posters and visual identities.
Since 2022, I run the independent type foundry Plain Form.
You can also find me experimenting alternative tools and organizing workshops with Bonjour Monde.
Want to get in touch? Contact me by Mail, on Instagram or on Twitter, I’d be happy to hear from you!
Publications / Press
– Typodarium 2024, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2023
– Global Type, It's Nice That’s Creative Insights, 2023
– It’s Nice That, 28.03.2023 [link]
– Typodarium 2023, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2022
– Collide24, 09.12.2022 [link]
– Type Speaks: A Lexicon of Expressive, Emotional, and Symbolic Typefaces, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson, Abrams, 2021
– Typodarium 2022, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2021
– Five Type Designers, Many Specimens, Communication Arts, 03.2021 [link]
– Typodarium 2021, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2020
– Our Favorite Typefaces of 2019, Typographica, 22.12.2020 [link]
– Typodarium 2020, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2019
– It’s Nice That, 28.11.2019 [link]
– Yearbook of Type IV, Slanted Publishers, 2019
– Type for Type, Custom type solutions for identity design, Victionary, 2019
– Modern Cyrillic catalogue, Paratype, 2019
– étapes:, Pyramid Éditions, n°251, 2019 (with Bonjour Monde)
– Typodarium 2019, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2018
– Grandmaster, a Hip-Hop Inspired Typeface That’s Something Like a Phenomenon, AIGA Eye on Design, 27.03.2018 [link]
– Typodarium 2018, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2017
– Code X — 01-PrePostPrint, Éditions HYX, 2017 (with Bonjour Monde)
– Crossover, Lectures de mémoires #2, Rhinoceros, 2017
– Pangramme exhibition catalogue, ESAL Metz, 2016
– étapes:, Pyramid Éditions, n°228, 2015
– Après\Avant, Rencontres de Lure, n°3, 2015
– Après\Avant, Rencontres de Lure, n°2, 2014
Exhibitions
– BASE10, collective exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Au), 2021
– All Fonts Look the Same, collective exhibition, Courtenay Place, Wellington (Nz), 2018
– Pangramme, collective exhibition, Druckkunst Museum, Leipzig (De), 2018
– Mastering Type 2017, collective exhibition, UdK, Berlin (De), 2018
– Pangramme, collective exhibition, ATypI, Université du Québec, Montréal (Ca), 2017
– Pangramme, collective exhibition, Biennal of Graphic Design, Les Silos, Chaumont (Fr), 2017
– Typo&,;:!, collective exhibition, Museum of printing and graphic communication, Lyon (Fr), 2016
– Pangramme, collective exhibition, Fine Art and Design School, Amiens (Fr), 2016
– Les Suisses de Paris, collective exhibition, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (Ch), 2016
– Pangramme, collective exhibition, Lorraine Fine Art School, Metz (Fr), 2016
– Les affiches de l'ANRT, collective exhibition, Ministry of Culture and Communication, Paris (Fr), 2016
– 50 Diplômes, collective exhibition, 12Mail Gallery, Paris (Fr), 2015
Workshops / Lectures
– teaching, Type design, LISAA Graphisme, Paris (Fr), 2023-24
– talk À la source, Conférence 'Caractères', Lyon (Fr), 10.2023
– workshop RandomWiki, DNMADE La Martinière-Diderot, Lyon (Fr), 03.2023
– teaching, Type design, LISAA Graphisme, Paris (Fr), 2022-23
– workshop Plantasia, LISAA Graphisme, Paris (Fr), 09.2022
– talk Fonky Families, l'histoire continue, Les Rencontres Internationales de Lure, Lurs (Fr), 08.2022
– workshop You Dense!, LISAA Graphisme, Paris (Fr), 04.2022 (with Benjamin Dumond)
– workshop Swashing-Machine, DNMADE La Martinière-Diderot, Lyon (Fr), 05.2021 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop Gotta Catch, DNMADE Lycée Jacques Prévert, Boulogne-Billancourt (Fr), 03.2021
– round table Open Type #3, hosted by Lift Type, 03.2021
– teaching, Culture et Design numérique, Université de Nîmes (Fr), 2021 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop Les formes du web, EnsAD, Paris (Fr), 11.2020 (with Bonjour Monde)
– round table Typolibrisme francophone : 10 ans et plus, Open Publishing Fest, 05.2020
– workshop FerroCalendar, EnsAD, Paris (Fr), 11.2019 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop Worms & Horses, Liminal Festival, Bucharest (Ro), 06.2019 (with Bonjour Monde)
– talk Erwin etc, ‘Fonts & Faces in all their forms’, Fonderie de l'image, Bagnolet (Fr), 11.2018 (with Benjamin Dumond)
– intervention, EnsAD, Paris (Fr), 11.2018 (with Bonjour Monde)
– talk Donner à voir, EnsadLab x PrePostPrint, EnsAD, Paris (Fr), 04.2018 (with Bonjour Monde)
– intervention, Suger high school, Saint-Denis (Fr), 01.2018 (with Bonjour Monde)
– talk Autres systèmes, ESIPE Paris-Créteil, Paris (Fr), 12.2017 (with Bonjour Monde)
– talk, PrePostPrint, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (Fr), 10.2017 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop Détournement de fontes, Mirage Festival, Les Subsistances, Lyon (Fr), 03.2017 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop RoboType, Expériences Numériques, Maison pour Tous, Lyon (Fr), 02.2017 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop Gutenbug, Les Grands Voisins, Paris (Fr), 12.2016 (with Bonjour Monde)
– workshop Micro-Macro, Fine Art School, Nancy (Fr), 02.2016 (with ANRT)
Educational background
– Post-master course in typographic research (ANRT, Nancy, Fr), 2017
– Master in Graphic design (HEAR, Strasbourg, Fr), 2015
– Degree in Graphic design (École Estienne, Paris, Fr), 2012
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