Les Rencontres de Lure : a week-long series of presentations held annually at the end of August in the beautiful Provence village of Lurs. During the Lurs week around thirty men and women (professionals, teachers, students…) present their work and/or their research.
Each year contributors are invited to follow a theme chosen by the association’s committee and membership. These themes are intended to be thought-provoking and relevant to contemporary developments in the world of typography and beyond. As the week unfolds, various aspects of the year’s theme are examined and discussed.
Every Graphics Culture week has its own theme…
Each autumn, the Rencontres Committee starts the process of establishing next year’s theme. Dealing with contemporary issues of course invariably leads to a pluridisciplinary approach.
Examples of previous years’ themes include : Portrait or landscape ?, Etching and sketching, artwork in progress, Enthusiasts, take note !, New faces of the written form…
Here is a more extensive list of previous summer weeks in Lurs : here.
© Benoît Carré, 2015
our previous themes
- 2018 Slowing the Flow. Ink-jet printing, liquid design and digital streams
- 2017 Constellations . Attraction, connections and tensions in graphic design
- 2016 Spot the mistake-Graphical wonderlands and wanderlands
- 2015 Portrait/landscape. A world of formats
- 2014 Etching and sketching,( artwork in progress)
- 2013 Enthusiasts take note !
- 2012 New faces of the written form 60th Rencontres
- 2011 In the margin
- 2010 Futile or fruitful ? typography for work, or for pleasure ?
- 2009 Secrets : mysteries of images and the written word
- 2008 Sold or sell-out ? The graphical contract
- 2007 All or nothing. Encyclopaedia Universalis of typography
- 2006 Labour of love(…letters)
- 2005 Traveling typo class
- 2004 Empire builders
- 2003 One and a thousand lifetimes
- 2002 Typographers, rejoice ! 50th Rencontres
- 2001 This one will kill that one
- 2000 Typography in…space
- 1999 Typography ordinaire, and extraordinaire
- 1998 Journey to the centre of the…ads
- 1997 Graphics : trends and innovations
- 1996 New challenges for typography
- 1995 Pressing time
- 1994 Making a point
- 1993 Multimedia
- 1992 Graphic design in Europe 40th Rencontres
- 1991 Eurotypography
- 1990 Graphic professionals on-screen
- 1989 Graphic (R)evolutions
- 1988 Graphic expression in the world of fashion
- 1987 The languages of advertising
- 1986 Graphic design and publishing
- 1985 Graphic design and music
- 1984 Signs, circuits and on-screen page settings
- 1983 Sign systems
- 1982 Writing with telematics 30th Rencontres
- 1981 Inscriptions and the environment
- 1980 Writing surfaces : scroll, codex, screen
- 1979 The case for Latin graphics
- 1973 Audio-scripto-visuel
- Undated In defence of printing
- Undated The phonetics of the eye
© Jacques Thomas, 2010
…and provides a gathering-place for many contributors
From the very beginning, it has been our pleasure to meet many contributors ; men and women of character from various walks of professional life :
Jean-Paul Goude © Jacques Thomas, 2010
Gens de caractère
Typography
Frank Adebiaye, Jean Alessandrini, Christophe Badani, Andreu Balius, Naïma Ben Ayed, Peter Bilak, Albert Boton, Christopher Burke, Aaron Burns, Max Caflisch, Matthieu Cannavo, David Carson, Matthew Carter, Nadine Chahine, Matthieu Cortat, Serge Cortesi, Philippe Dabasse, Roger Excoffon, Oded Ezer, Gustavo Ferreira, Adrian Frutiger, Thierry Gouttenègre, Lucille Guigon, Albert Hollenstein, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Marcel Jacno, Franck Jalleau, Julie Janet-Chauffier, Eric Kindel, Jean-Baptiste Levée, Martin Majoor, Ladislas Mandel, Yannick Mathey, Didier Mazellier, José Mendoza, Stanley Morison, Olivier Nineuil, Aldo Novarese, Sandrine Nugue, Clotilde Olyff, Patrick Paleta, Christian Paput, Alejandro Paul, Jean-François Porchez, Julien Priez, Thierry Puyfoulhoux, Morgane Rébulard, Émilie Rigaud, Rich Roat, Alice Savoie, Christian Schwartz, Fred Smeijers, Erik Spiekerman, Gerard Unger, David Vallance, Grégori Vincens, Kurt Weidemann, Hermann Zapf
Jean Alessandrini, ©Michel Balmont, 2013
Calligraphy
Marion Andrews, François Boltana, Michel Derre, Cathy Doucet, Roger Druet, Vincent Geneslay, Roger Gorrindo, Abdollah Kiaie, Denise Lach, Jean Larcher, Claude Mediavilla, Henri Mérou, Brody Neuenschwander, Laurent Pflughaupt, Carl Rorhs, Véronique Sabard, Kitty Sabatier
Illustrators
Marion Bataille, Jean-Philippe Bretin, Johan De Moor, André François, Sacha Goerg, Justin Grégoire, Gianpaolo Pagni, Guillaume Reynard, Aline Rollin, Perrine Rouillon, Jean-Charles Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Tachdjian
Marion Bataille © Jacques Thomas, 2010
Graphic design
Reza Abedini, Guillaume André, Philippe Apeloig, Giuseppe Attoma, Nawal Bakouri, Marian Bantjes, Claire Bardainne, Marion Bataille, Michal Batory, Ruedi Baur, Pierre Bernard, Yoann Bertrandy, Frédéric Bortolotti, Erich Brechbuhl, Yulia Brodskaya, François Caspar, Sandra Chamaret, Julien Chazal, Mathieu Chévara, Christian Delorme, Lucien De Roeck, Pierre di Sciullo, Patrick Doan, Dick Dooijes, Gaël Étienne, Caroline Fabès, Gérard Finel, Paul et Peter Gabor, Damien Gautier, Philippe Ghielmetti, Raymond Gid, Adeline Goyet, Margaret Gray, Tom Henni, Gérard Ifert, Werner Jeker, Joe La Pompe, Patrick Lallemand, Pippo Lionni, Claude Maggiori, Caroll Maréchal, Malte Martin, Massin, Philippe Millot, Hélène Mourrier, Michel Olyff , Rémy Peignot, Vincent Perrottet, Roger Pfund, Patrick Pleutin, Marie Reumont, Étienne Robial, Kathleen Rousset, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Jérôme Sallerin, Raymond Savignac, Camille Scherrer, Susanna Shannon, Leonardo Sonnoli, Roger Tallon, Thérèse Troïka, Niklaus Troxler, Laurent Ungerer, François Weil, Jean Widmer, Catherine Zask
Dabasse & Reynard © Benoît Carré, 2015
Publishing and printing
Pierre-Jean Balbo, Sebastian Carter, Roger Chatelain, Robert Clerebaut, Ann Eriksonn, Louis Guéry, Henri Jonquières, Marc Kopylov, Les 3 ourses, Julie Luzoir, Rémy Magermans, David Meulemans, Robert Morel, Bernard Moutot, Hubert Nyssen, Édouard Hemmerlé, Andy Okoroafor, Claire Paulhan, Charles Peignot, Yves Perrousseaux, Francis Ramel, David Rault, Franco Maria Ricci, François Richaudeau, AnnaSka Serwanska, Frédéric Tachot, Alexia De Visscher, Jean-Philippe Zappa
Gens de regard ?
Photography, cinema
Jean-Christophe Averty, Michel Balmont, Roger Catherineau, Rachel Cazadamont, Marc Combier, Jean Dieuzaide, Pierre Étaix, Adrien Faucheux, Dominique Flavien-Monod, Jean-Paul Goude, Paul Grimault, Peter Knapp, Sarah Moon, Étienne Sved, Jacques Thomas, Patrick Tosani, Philippe Truffault
Publicité, communication, médias
Élodie Boyer, Jean-Paul Gourévitch, Henri Kaufman
Élodie Boyer © Michel Balmont, 2010
Advertising, digital media
Stephen Belfond, Stéphane Buellet, Jean Cloutier, Claude Cossette, Antoine Denize, David Larlet, Roger Laufer, Anthony Masure, Nolwenn Maudet, Étienne Mineur, Eric Muller, Jiminy Panoz, Joanna Pommian, David Small, Gérard Verroust, Mark Webster
Music & dance
Dominique Besson, Dominique Boivin, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre Schaeffer, Maroussia Diaz Verbeke
Architecture and urban planning
Hans-Walter Müller, Claude Parent, Paul Virilio
Cartography
Jacques Bertin, Denis Rebaud
Fine Arts
Jacques Carelman, Louis Jou, Adrien Maeght, Georges Mathieu, Victor Vasarely, Bernard Villemot, Sam Winston
Gens de plume
Authors
Michel Butor, Sonia Chiambretto, Tim Ingold, Eugène Ionesco, Pierre Magnan, Joël Martin, Françoise Neveu, Benoît Peeters, Jérôme Peignot, Michel Pintaud, Michel Ragon
Historians
Colin Banks, Nicolas Barker, Fernand Baudin, Lewis Blackwell, Claude-Laurent François, Henri-Jean Martin, Jan Middendorp, James Mosley, René Ponot, Roger Smith, Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer
Sociologists, Philosophers
Jean Guitton, Abraham Moles, Hector Obalk, Marc Perelman, Gérard Pommier, Alain Renaud, Vincenzo Susca, Nicolas Taffin
Librarians, museum staff, archivists
Samuel Bausson, Annie Berthier, Alain Carou, David Castrec, Annie Chèvrefils-Desbiolles, Sylvie Giono, Véronique Marrier, Alan Marshall, Michel Melot, Sabine Millecamps, Ève Netchine, Anne Zali
Sylvie Giono © Benoît Carré, 2014
Teaching
Bernard Arin, Laurence Bedoin, Enrique Cayatte, Anne-Catherine Céard, Pierre Duplan, Jean-Louis Estève, Gérard Mermoz, Thomas Ricordeau, Serge Selvestrel, Susanna Stammbach
Research
Jacques André, Étienne Candel, Anne Delfaut, John Dreyfus, Gustavo Gomez-Mejia, Samuel Goyet, André Gunthert, Claire Hollenstein, Louis Holtz, Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Ghita Jalal, Valérie Jeanne-Perrier, Yvonne Johannot, Henri Laborit, Gérard Lagneau, Annick Lantenois, Laurent Vannini, Jacques Monnier-Raball, Giorgio Montecchi, Alain Paccoud, Anne-Lyse Renon, Alain Rey, Alexandre Saint-Jevin, Emmanuël Souchier, Richard Southall, Elsa Tadier, Serge Tisseron, Jean Véronis, Beatrice Warde
Journalism
Laurent Lemire, Daniel Mermet
Oriane Deseilligny © Jacques Thomas, 2009