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Phillippe APELOIG

1962–

Profile

  • Name

    フィリップ アペロワ Phillippe APELOIG

  • Job Title

    Graphic Designer

  • Birth

    1962

  • Area

    Paris

  • Profile

    Born in Paris. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués and École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and interned under Daphné Duijvelhoff at Total Design in Amsterdam. He became a graphic designer at the Orsay Museum in 1985. He got a French government scholarship in 1988 and worked for a year under April Greiman in 1988. He established a studio in Paris in 1989 and under toot typography research at France Academy of Art in Rome. He has been teaching typography at the National High Shool of Decorative Art since 1992.

    Source: "ginza graphic gallery 1998"

    Philippe Apeloig was born in Paris and studied at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD). After two transformative internships at Total Design in Amsterdam, he was hired as a graphic designer at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris in 1985. In 1987, after receiving a scholarship from the French Foreign Ministry, Apeloig left the Orsay and moved to Los Angeles to study and work with April Greiman. On his return to Paris, he established his own studio. In 1993, he won a fellowship at the French Academy in Rome, where he researched and designed typefaces. In 1997, Apeloig became a design consultant for the Louvre, then six years later, its art director, a post he held until 2008. From 1992 to 1998, Apeloig taught typography at ENSAD. While teaching part-time at the Rhode Island School of Design in the U.S., he applied for and was appointed full-time professor of graphic design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. He began his new post in 1999, then was made curator of the School’s Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography in 2000. He held the dual post until 2003, when he returned to Paris to run his own studio. Apeloig’s design compositions have won numerous prizes, including 1995 Tokyo Type Directors Club Gold Prize, Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2007 Gold Prize, and the Overall Prize at the 2009 International Society of Typographic Designers Award in London. He contributed to recent blockbuster exhibitions by designing posters for “Yves Saint Laurent” in Paris (2010). Apeloig has also created numerous visual identities and logos for nonprofits, governmental agencies, and businesses ranging from Festival de l'histoire de l'art in Fontainebleau, the Orient Express, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Direction des Musées de France, and the silversmith Puiforcat. Apeloig is currently working with Jean Nouvel on the way finding system for the Louvre in Abu Dhabi. He has also created the logo and the corporate visual identity of the forthcoming Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech. In 2013, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris presented his first major retrospective. At this occasion the Museum’s and Thames & Hudson published Typorama which brings together 30 years of his graphic work. In 2015, the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam held the exhibition “Using Type” which focused on Apeloig’s typographic posters. Philippe Apeloig is a longstanding member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011.

    Source: ggg HP Exhibition Archive "Apeloiggg Tokyo Philippe Apeloig Exhibition"

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