This issue is produced by the students of the Mastère Direction de Création en Design Graphique (DCDG) with the help of Abäke (Maki Suzuki), Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (Anna-Lena Würth), Andreas Gysin, Institut sérigraphique, Franck Jalleau, Marie Levoyet, Maestro, Laurel Parker, Gérard Plénacoste, Source Type, Pierre Vanni. The editorial is written by Catherine Guiral. The cover is printed on the machines of the Atelier-Musée de l'Imprimerie (Malesherbes, France) under the supervision of Alexandru Balgiu. The educational and editorial direction of the project is carried out by Elsa Aupetit, Christophe Lemaitre, Martin Plagnol.

 

 

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Composite is an annual journal dedicated to the tools, techniques and technologies that run through the practices of graphic design and image. A pedagogical tool initiated by Elsa Aupetit and Christophe Lemaitre at the Campus Fonderie de l'Image (France), the magazine puts students in contact with the history of their profession while initiating, in the long term, an effort to document the present. The project is part of material and conceptual logics that may have been those of publications such as Caractère Noël and Upper & Lower Case. The nuance here is that the journal's production protocol is an educational project on the history of techniques (and their contemporary uses) during which students meet a selection of French and international professionals—manufacturers, printers, screen printers, graphic designers and artists—renewed each year.