Adrien Vasquez is a typographer and type designer based in London. With John Morgan, he co-founded ABYME, a digital type foundry and independent publisher of artist’s editions and multiples. Occasional words and images.

blackhole (at) adrienvasquez.co.uk

Typefaces

Valence, Moderne, Latine, Rudy, Nizioleti, English Egyptian, Persona, TNR827, Blau, Schablonenschrift

Publications

  • ‘A Note on the AA Files Display Initials’, Footnotes, issue B (Geneva, 2017)
  • Dressed in Black: Spektrum and Lothar Reher, co-edited with Wayne Daly (London: Precinct, June 2017). To order a copy please get in touch (£12 + shipping)
  • ‘John Morgan: cinq conversations’ (translation), Azimuts 42: Tuning (Saint-Étienne: Esadse, March 2015)
  • ‘William Addison Dwiggins: M–Formula, ou Théorie de la marionnette’ (introduction and translation, with Samuel Vermeil), Azimuts 40–41: Revues de recherche en design. Un panorama (Saint-Étienne: Esadse, October 2014)
  • Paul Renner, ‘De la typographie moderne’ (translation), From—To: 2012–2014, (Valence: ESAD, June 2014)
  • ‘Type Design’, .txt (Paris: B42, April 2013)

Exhibitions

  • A shelf for Lothar. Co-curated with Wayne Daly, 27th Brno Biennial (16 June–30 October 2016)
  • Berthe (with John Morgan and Charles Mazé), A-T-T-E-N-T-I-O-N (curated by David-Olivier Lartigaud and Samuel Vermeil), Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2015: Les sens du beau (12 March–12 April 2015)

Talks

  • Série noire: Lothar Reher et Spektrum, at Exemplaires, formes et pratiques de l’édition (Strasbourg, April 2017)
  • Naming Victory, Q&A with John Morgan, James Mosley and Phil Surey, at St Bride Library (London, June 2016)
  • A shelf for Lothar (with Wayne Daly), at Biennial Talks, 27th Brno Biennial (June 2016)
  • Nizioleti, at Letterform Live: Archi Types (London, October 2015)

Features

  • ‘Dressed in Black’ (interview, with Wayne Daly), The Gradient (September 2017)
  • ‘A Shelf for Lothar’ (interview, with Wayne Daly), Biennial News, 27th Brno Biennial (June 2016)
  • ‘Ship Shaped’ (interview, with John Morgan), Grafik (London: January 2016)

Teaching

  • Type design workshop, ESAD Valence (November 2018)
  • Type design workshop, ESAD Valence (January–February 2018)