THAÏS JOURNET
LA STAR
Type design // Variable font
Type design // Variable font
STAR is a variable typeface ranging from Regular to Bold Wide. It is defined by strong proportions and a high-contrast design. Built on a single construction grid, the typeface allows multiple drawings per character while maintaining visual coherence across weights. STAR is a display typeface specifically designed for large formats, both digital and print. Its tight spacing is a key feature, creating narrow bands of light that shimmer through dense black forms. The contrast between heavy verticals and sharp diagonals gives the typeface a strong sense of stability. It belongs to a typographic genre that remains a perpetual outsider — never truly fashionable, yet never abandoned.
With its bold, geometric shapes, STAR references Bauhaus design, notably Walter Gropius’s chair and the LC2 armchair by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand (Cassina).
BOLD TYPE FOUNDRY
As part of my diploma project, I worked around the combination of typography, furniture design, and product design. Within the context of a graphic design studio, the aim was to create furniture based on custom-designed typefaces.
Inspired by the early twentieth century myth of «Total Art», my project advocates an absolute formal balance between living spaces and graphic design. A return to the Bauhaus era as it was originally imagined by Walter Gropius !
Thus, my letter is an object, and my object is a letter.
An Armchair // Y-ARMCHAIR
95 x 70 x 60 cm, Armchair in solid acacia wood.
100 x 100 x 100 cm, Lamp shade in powder-coated aluminium and stainless steel.