Fornax - Greetings cards

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Bibliotératologie

Chez les éditeurs [5]

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General catalog

Authors
- • Authors A-Z
- • Illustrators A-Z
- • Publisher - CLS
Chronological
- • 1977 (1-12)
- • 1978 (13-23)
- • 1979 (24-27)
- • 1980 (28-39)
- • 1981 (40-52)
- • 1982 (53-64)
- • 1983 (65-74)
- • 1984 (75-97)
- • 1985 (98-114)
- • 1986 (115-120)
- • 1987 (121-127)
- • 1988 (128-134)
- • 1989 (-)
- • 1990 (135)
- • 1991 (136-138)
- • 1992 (139-144)
- • 1993 (145-153)
- • 1994 (154-163)
- • 1995 (164-172)
- • 1996 (173-188)
- • 1997 (189-194)
- • 1998 (195-196)
- • 1999 (197-201)
- • 2000 (202-206)
- • 2001 (207-213)
- • 2002 (214-220)
- • 2003 (221-224)
- • 2004 (225-226)
- • 2005 (227-229)
- • 2006 (230-231)
- • 2007 (232-237)
- • 2008 (238)
- • 2009 (239-247)
- • 2010 (248)
- • 2011 (249-251)
- • 2012 (252-255)
- • 2013 (256)
- • 2014 (257)
- • 2015 (-)
- • 2016 (258-260)
- • 2017 (261-263)
- • 2018 (264-269)
- • 2019 (270-273)
- • 2019 (274-276)
- • 2021 (277)
- • 2022 (278-281)
- • 2023 (282-284)
- • 2024 (285)
Collections
- • List
- • On sale
Des barbares...
- • Introduction
- • André Laurie: A novel in the planet Mars
- • Éric Dussert: L'Alambic (the Still)
- • André Laurie: Spiridon the dumb
- • André Laurie 2009 seminar
- • Conan Doyle: A Night Among the Nihilists
- • Marc Michel: Pohol
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- • Typographer women 19th century
- • Typographers 19th century

Typo and around

Ateliers typo
- • Imprimerie d'Alsace-Lozère
- • L'Arbre et l'Impatiente
- • Format typographique
- • Atelier La Feugraie
- • La Maison de l'imprimerie
- • Atelier de Saint-Maur
- • Sergent-Fulbert
Biblioteratology
- • 1. Chez les brocheurs [1]
- • 2. Chez les éditeurs[1]
- • 3. Chez les relieurs [1]
- • 4. Chez les relieurs [2]
- • 5. Chez les éditeurs [2]
- • 6. At the readers [1]
- • 7. Chez les éditeurs [3]
- • 8. Chez les éditeurs [4]
- • 9. Chez les éditeurs [5]
Entertainments
- • Greetings cards
- • Singular pairs
- • Post-concours
- • Streets names
- • Food poetry
- • Swallows of Bannes
Fin-de-Siècle
- • Au Balcon
- • Cœur féroce, cœur tendre
- • Curiosités rachildiennes
- • Retoqué de Saint-Réac
Fourneau and Fornax
- • Quotations
- • Green Fornax (French)
- • Fornax's geography
- • Landru [French]
- • Laucou on the radio
- • Neo Noe
- • La Page de sable
- • De sycope
- • The Cotillon system
- • CLS's workshop (videos)
- • Fourneau's print marks
Meetings
- • Dominique Autié (1) Toril à Paris
- • Dominique Autié (2) la feuille Toril
- • François Caradec
- • Fernand Combet
- • Robert Giraud
- • Pierre Gripari
- • Jean Le Mauve [French]
- • Jean-Hugues Malineau
- • Pierre Voisin
Printings
- • Printed shortbread biscuit
- • Chromolithography
- • Chromotypography
- • Lakhanography
- • The Nardigraphe
Type case
- • Chapter 1
- • Chapter 2
- • Chapter 3
- • Chapter 4
- • Interlude
Typography
- • Fonts
- • The workshop's tools
- • Punctuation
- • Streets typography

Fornax- Infos

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Calendar

Greetings cards

Since 1978 Fourneau/Fornax and Christian Laucou sacrificed to the tradition of the greetings cards in form of a small booklet to distract friends and relations at each beginning of the year. Miss only two years: 1989 for reason of breakdown and 2000 for reason of too complicated project which does not succeed.

Their format was A6 from 1978 to 1989, A7 from 1991 to 1999, again A6 since 2001 with a great proportion of landscape format.

The printing process used were offset in 1978 and 1979, letterpress from 1980 to 1988, digital printing (inkjet, laser) from 1991 to 1999. Since 2001 the cover is letterpress printed (lead, wood, lino or photopolymere) and digital printed for the rest. Since 2009, they are printed in more various formats.

You will find below the cards whose contents will have been treated in pdf (a click on the cover opens it). Gradually their number will grow until constituting a whole collection.

Christian Soulignac
January, 2007

The collection is now complete. Miss definitively a third card: 2015.

Christian Soulignac
July, 2015

All greeting cards are now available for free download from this site.

Christian Soulignac
January, 2021