Christophe
Badani (Marseille, 1969 - ?) is fond of typo with an educational
background in graphic design; he has decided later to focus only on
type design. After beginning as phototype setter and lay-out artist,
he has worked for advertising and publishing agencies as a specialist
in type and logo design.
He’s fascinated by the letters in general and studied
calligraphy and writing engraving. He’s the author of the French speaking
site Calligraphia
hosted on Planète typographie (the French parent of Planet).
He’s a professor at the school of visual communication IntuitLab in
Paris.
You
will find all his creations on his site named le
Typophage.
He designed the new Planet typography logotype (2005). The creation
process is described in this article.
The final result is presented below:

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