Solenne Madi
Graphic designer
Type designer
Based between
Rennes & Paris (FR)

Contact on
solenne.madi(a)gmail.com
or more visual with
@solennemadi
➔ Image Library
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WORKSHOP PORTRAIT TYPOGRAPHIQUE
TYPOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT WORKSHOP
2024
Photos of the workshop of 9 March 2024
Made at SiriusLab, Paris 18th
Creation and animation of a workshop for children (6-12 years) around letters as forms.

MIRROR PLATFORM
2023
Plateform (still in progress)
Designed at EESAB Rennes
Mirror is a platform for sharing, exchanging and working on the Latin Arabic multi-script. The Source catalog tab has for the purpose of bringing together visual sources and textual relative Latin Arabic multi-script.
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HI KIFIK ÇA VA?
2022
Edition 22×31cm
Written text & edited designed at EESAB Rennes
Printed in Identic, Cesson Sévigné
“I remember the flow of information when we were going out from Beirut airport. I remember the heat and the noise of language mixing. The multilingual is everywhere, the direction signs, information, advertising, storefronts. This mixture of has always been part of my daily life and in this memory I analyse it from a graphic point of view and as a means communication. The multi script, whether oral or written, has been around for decades. The feedback of graphic designers and typographers helped me understand the issues behind cohabitation of these two scripts and highlighted questions The multi-script remains a vast, complex and particularly subjective, of which almost everything remains to be explored.”
(pdf french version here)

COMMENT EXPLIQUER UN ALPHABET QUI NOUS EST INCONNU ?
HOW TO EXPLAIN AN ALPHABET THAT IS UNKNOWN TO US ?
2022
Edition 14x21cm and poster 21x29cm risography
Edition and poster designed and printed at EESAB Rennes
Project realized in collaboration with Cécile Boquen, illustrations and collages from the Korean and Arabic alphabets to create a jumble of forms.
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MAKE LETTERS SPEAK
2021
Digital lettering
Edition 20×29cm, risography
Lettering designed and printed at the Signe, Chaumont
Digital lettering inspired by the language crossing in the Lebanese dialect in the Nashk Arabic calligraphic style. Edition bringing together the different lettering of the participants in the workshop.
« ‘ Hi kifik ça va ? ’ is a well-known sentence in Lebanon. It represents the mix of languages and Lebanese people’s ability to switch between English, Arabic and French. A faculty that I have always admired. »
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ÉVOLUTION ET MODERNITÉ DE L'ÉCRITURE ARABE
EVOLUTION AND MODERNITE OF ARABIC WRITING
2021
Edition 18,5×29,5cm, risography
Edition 9,5×12cm
Written text, designed & printed editions at ESAD d'Amiens
This text takes up the evolution of the Arabic script, calligraphy to printing techniques. It presents the typographical evolution of Arabic script, this text provides a rapid assessment of the current situation in Lebanon with an interview by Jennifer Meez, a Lebanese graphic designer.

LIMITES DE NOS LIMITES
LIMITS OF OUR LIMITS
2021
Edition 20×29cm
Designed & printed edition at ESAD in Amiens
This edition presents the various existing borders as well as our freedoms and restrictions in relation to them.

DOMINER SAISIR DÉTRUIRE
DOMINATE SEIZE DESTROY
2021
Edition 29.7x21cm
Designed & printed edition at ESAD in Amiens
This edition presents a research work on the destruction of nature by man. Destructions made on images by a code software.

HOTDOG
2020
Edition 20x29cm, poster 29x42cm risography
Edition and poster designed in Hoschule Mainz (Germany) and printed at ESAD Amiens
Edition for people curious about the world of fashion and architecture. Based on the Whole Hearth Catalog, this magazine presents the novelties of these artistic fields.