The story

The typographer is a little beetle which lives under the bark of spruce trees, creating a dedal of turning galleries that look like lines of scripture.

It begins with the Beaux-Arts University

Cédric Chauvelot, former fine arts student in France, passionate about typography, made this little insect the emblem of his company and brand.

Workshop and boutique together

In 2007, he opened a workshop-boutique in Brussels with a first typographic press and printed projects with lead and wood alphabets, in a constant concern for quality and typographic purism.

First “le typographe” creations

He decided to create his own stationery collection and to present it at an international show. The professionals who discovered this brand were seduced and the activity grew.

le typographe is growing

The team is setting up in the heart of the Châtelain district in premises grouping a boutique, a typographic workshop containing 800 cases of mobile lead characters and 6 Heidelberg presses as well as a workshop for designing and shaping , for stock and offices.

In 2015, in order to get closer with its parisian customers, le typographe opens a corner on the stationery floor of the famous Le Bon Marché grand magasin.

le typographe today

le typographe employs around ten people, split between the workshop and the boutique.

All products are still exclusively designed and manufactured by hand in the Brussels workshop. They are the result of our exacting expertise.

In addition to the custom printing works, stationery collections are successful. There is a whole range of cards with a special design but also various ranges of notebooks, notepads, letter papers, envelopes, memo notepads, monthly and weekly calendars. The line of this manufacture is identified as much by the pleasure of the letter as by the care of the meticulous selection of the papers and colors used.

Success is going, paper and writing have a present and a future.