Enric Crous-Vidal

Enric Crous-Vidal (* 1908 in Lleida ; † 1987 in Noyon ) was a Spanish graphic artist , inventor of characters and writer.

In 1939, he went because of the Spanish Civil War to France into exile . In 1954, Crous-Vidal was appointed artistic director of the French type foundry , for which he drew several typefaces , notably Flash (1953), Paris (1953) and Île de France (1960). Enric Crous-Vidal founded the Graphie latine movement , with which he proposed an approach to the international typographical style and which he considered more adapted to the “Latin culture”; he relied on the ideas of Raymond Savignac .

Works

• Richesse de la Graphie Latine . Les Cahiers d'Estienne sn, Collège technique Estienne, no 17, 1951
• Grâce et Harmonie du Graphisme Latin & Autres Remarques . Paris, 1954
• Doctrine & Action. Pour la renaissance du graphisme latin . Paris, Damien, 1954
• Pour la renaissance du graphisme latin. Suite doctrinale du mouvement graphique . Paris, 1956
• Enric Crous: memòries . Editorial Mediterrània, 2007

literature

• Andreu Balius: Enric Crous-Vidal: Un caràcter en tipografia . Preedicio.com, octobre 2008 ( read )
• Luc Devroye: Enric Crous-Vidal ( cf. )
• Enric Crous-Vidal in Klingspor Museum
• Esther Solé: Enric Crous-Vidal, Lleida-París . Revista del Cercle de Belles Arts, no 30-31, April 2009, pp. 51-53 (to be read )
• Esther Solé: Enric Crous-Vidal: Proposals on Latin writing . In: Abstracts by Panel, 2009
• Raquel Pelta: Enric Crous y la grafía latina . Monografica.org, no 4, June 2012 ( read )
• Museu d'Art Jaume Morera, Dossier de premsa: Crous Vidal i la Grafia Llatina, 2008 ( read )
• Enric Crous-Vidal. From advertising to typography. ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), sur Center Julio Gonzalez, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
• Arts graphics de la Diputació de Lleida, Sala temàtica d'Arts graphics de la Diputació de Lleida, 2011 (to be read )