Encyclopaedic Carousel of the Great Truths of Modern Life

Encyclopaedic Carousel of the Great Truths of Modern Life

"Le Carrousel encyclopédique des grandes vérités de la vie moderne est un livre-objet qui prend la forme de quatre-vingt diapositives porteuses de truismes dont la véridicité est ambiguë, contenues dans un boîtier. Consulté à l’aide d’un projecteur ou à main nue, en observant les diapositives à contre jour, le Carrousel est un livre d'artiste dont l’ordre des pages est interchangeable ; un ouvrage qui fuit sa réalité tant par sa nature translucide et lumineuse que par ses propos biaisés."

Typeface : Right when i saw the font i knew it was something i already seen, or at least something very similar, so i just put an image in Illustrator and put the text right above it and start browsing through my font library and put a filter for only sans serif. 

The font i found is Source Sans, By Google Fonts.It's a very "generic" sans serif, in my opinion, not that in a bad way, but it's really neutral and the starting point when i think of a sans serif typeface."Source® Sans Pro, Adobe's first open source typeface family, was designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a sans serif typeface intended to work well in user interfaces." -fonts.google.com.
But we can see that it's not the exact same font on the "g".

The typeface used is a very good choice in my opinion since it's not a typographic work who needs to have a very stylized aesthetic and benefit from a neutral sans serif that do not distract us from the content. A bit like a crystal goblet font. 

One of the main thing i remember thinking at the time when i was holding the slides was how well made they were and not hand crafted. It really benefit from the "perfection" of the manufactured aspect that we feel and see while looking at it. Handmade is not always better, sometimes it's a good option but for my style and ideas, i'll try to go more towards manufacturer and machine made objects since my concepts and visuals are usually more suited for those techniques that gives a "perfect" and very polished look.