Louise Paradis

Louise is a graphic designer, art director, professor and researcher with special interests for typography and history of graphic design. She holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and a master’s degree in art direction from the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL). Paradis is lead researcher, co-author and co-designer of the project 30 Years of Swiss Typographic Discourse in the Typografische Monatsblätter, published by Lars Müller in 2013, re-edited in 2017 and translated into Chinese in 2021. The project has received numerous international recognitions from contests such as The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, German Design Award and Grafika. For several years, she worked as a graphic designer and art director in Los Angeles and Montreal, mainly in the fashion industry, for companies such as SSENSE, IntelligenceLA, and American Apparel. As a freelancer, she has carried out several projects for the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA), the Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, and the Centre de design UQAM. She is also a long-time collaborator with the Swiss type foundry Optimo, for which she is the editor of web content. She has been invited to give several conferences, among others for Grafill in Oslo, for the Art Center HMCT in Los Angeles and for Index Space in New York. Her work was included in the exhibition 50 Years of Helvetica at MoMA, New York, in the traveling exhibition Type We Can Make as well as the exhibition and book ECAL Graphic Design.