Michèle Champagne is a Montréal-based designer and writer. Her independent studio works with foundations, publishers, and broadcasters on projects for cultural research and publication design. Working with open content and open source dynamics is essential in the studio—from crowdsourcing comments for print magazines to designing social networks built with open source code. Champagne has worked with Droog, Mediamatic, Metahaven, Penguin Random House Canada, and Strelka Institute.
Handwriting in an Era of Glitter Text Generators
Michèle Champagne examines how technology questions both the tradition of typography and the romantic “aura” of the human hand in art and design. This dynamic is at the heart of Champagne’s school for typography in Toronto, where designers, artists, and coders explore typography online and off.