Fig. is a graphic design festival taking place in Liège in February. It offers a program of conferences, exhibitions, workshops and round tables, aimed at a wider audience. Fig. is organized by Loraine Furter, PLMD & Signes du Quotidien.

Workshop participants were invited to edit and design this special issue of La Perruque: the specimen of Correspondance, a font by Radim Peško. By designing the content and the form, they had to interpret the conceptual foundations and the graphic features of this font. At the same time, they had to find graphic ways to show the characteristics of the typeface. 

Correspondance is inspired by the typeface created for the Parisian Metro signage system by Adrian Frutiger and reconstructed by Radim Peško from memory. It features a single weight, upper case only, and alternate versions of some characters.

Grouped into editorial committees, the workshop participants experimented with the format of La Perruque by proposing different editorial and graphic approaches.

The proposition below plays with the idea of reading. Changes of direction punctuate a selection of new announcements made by Belgian train controllers:

The number that was chosen to be printed reverses the letters of the alphabet in a large body to make us move through its counterforms, alternating shadow and light, tunnels and station arrivals.

Thanks to all the participants: Valentine Auphan, Charles Berard, Paul Bouigue, Julien Braeckevelt, Hugo Chastan, Olivier Evrard, Michelle Grandjean, Lucie Henriot, Isabelle Huart, Aurore Lefèvre, Maëlan Le Meur, Christian Matriche, Paul Paris, Chloé Reboux, Marie Sion, Emma Sizun, Guillaume Slizewicz, Stéphane Stadler, Lise Walgenwitz, Eugénie Zuccarelli.