Revue Faire Magazine #49 – Lawrence Weiner

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• Category: Magazine
• Topic: Graphic Design, Typography
• Publisher: Editions Empire
• Country: France
• Language: English, French
• Release: 2025
• Cover: Softcover
• Binding: Stapling
• Size: 21 x 30 cm
• Pages: 62

The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal is about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography, titled “We Are Ships at Sea, Not Ducks On a Pond” and written by Joris Kritis. Its glossy, full-colour pages honour Weiner's use of graphic design, which has always in turn fascinated graphic designers. What makes Weiner's work seductive is his resolutely non-apologetic method of displaying words without need for any explanation. A comparative analysis is made of different voices about Weiner's use of graphics and typography. Next to a speculative history of Weiner's formal language, two interviews with graphic designer Linda Van Deursen and artist Nora Turato discuss Weiner's enduring legacy.

The Revue Faire project started in 2017, in light of a realization that critical publications dedicated to the analysis of Graphic Design are sadly few and far between today, particularly in France, but also in Europe as a whole. Adopting an analytical and critical posture with regard to the forms and activities of Graphic Design, in 2017 Sacha Léopold and François Havegeer established a print publication that deals with these practices. Revue Faire is published by Empire and designed by Syndicat.

The goals of Revue Faire are as follows:
— To produce a publication based on the rhythm of the school year, for undergraduate students as well as researchers and professionals, documenting contemporary and international practices along with the history and grammar of styles.
— To document each issue as a unique, tentacular subject addressed by a renowned author, by encountering the authors and Graphic Designers involved.
— To consider and print an iconography that is specific to these subjects.
— To focus on emblematic practices that go beyond questions set by current trends and the perishable nature of a magazine.
— To allow authors to submit their intentions concerning thematic openings without imposing a particular subject to be treated.
— To organize events, launches, and encounters with international figures from the field of Graphic Design in connection with each issue.
— Il s’agit de FAIRE. It’s about DOING