Like many of our personal projects Sol\u00e6 happened alongside freelance projects and other commitments, so progress was slow, sometimes with months between sessions. \u201cEach time I reopened the file,\u201d Gwennina shares, \u201cI questioned past choices, which forced me to trust my earlier decisions and accept the design\u2019s evolution over time.\u201d Once Sol\u00e6 had found its final form Gwennina then partnered with Blaze type to bring the font out of her desktop files and into the world with a poster series that celebrated the end of \u201cone very long project\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n
For the occasion, Gwennina invited 12 designers and studios whose work she admires, giving each a \u201ccarte blanche\u201d to create a poster using Sol\u00e6 and a zodiac sign of their choice. The list of collaborators includes Fakepaper, \u00c9lise Rigollet, Cl\u00e9mence Gouy, Eschenlauer Sinic, Odds Studio, Choque Le Goff, Pierre Vanni, R\u00e9publique Studio, Task Office, Aletheia, Marine Buffard and Maison Solide. The results are nothing short of stunning \u2014 an explosion of colour and form that puts the attention to detail in the design of Sol\u00e6 under a new microscope. Each contributor moulded the typeface into their own unique visual language, and flexed its versatility. \u201cIt was moving to see something you created become a tool for others\u2019 creativity,\u201d Gwennina tells us.<\/p>\n
The project\u2019s finale was a launch event in Paris which brought together all the posters into one exhibition this September. \u201cIt was a true celebration, gathering a lot of people from the design community. As designers, we don\u2019t often have the opportunity to properly release projects and show them to people. Moments like that are really important,\u201d the designer ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many of our personal projects Sol\u00e6 happened alongside freelance projects and other commitments, so progress was slow,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-297378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}