Mademoiselle Typeface Design and Specimen

Mademoiselle was originally designed by Tommy Thompson in 1953 as a display face for Mademoiselle magazine. At the time, Mademoiselle magazine was known for publishing short stories by noted authors such as Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Sylvia Plath, who wrote The Bell Jar based on her experiences as a summer editor the same year this typeface was designed.

Mademoiselle was redrawn digitally in 2010 at the Yale School of Art, over the course of a semester, under the guidance of Tobias Frere-Jones. 

Catalogue Raisonné

At Yale, the graphic design thesis is conceived as a loose framework within which each student’s visual method is deployed across many diverse projects during his or her two-year course of study: a focus on methodology and the application of a visual method to studio work culminate towards the organization of the work in a thoughtfully argued written document and catalogue raisonné, also known as the “Thesis Book.”

This catalogue raisonné was designed, printed and bound in April 2012 at the Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT.  

Graphic Magazine #22

Yale Special Issue. Planned, edited & designed by the graphic design department at the Yale School of Art. Contributed writing, design work, and images featured throughout the issue.