George Auriol, born Jean-Georges Huyot (26 April 1863,

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artist. He worked in many media and created illustrations for the covers of magazines, books, and sheet music, as well as other types of work such as monograms and trademarks.

Biography

After he arrived in Paris in 1883, Auriol was introduced to typography and book design by

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and became particularly interested in the revival of historical type styles. Appointed by

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, he created his signature typeface Auriol inspired by the Art Nouveau movement for the G. Peignot & Fils foundry, which was used in the work of Francis Thibaudeau and other publishers of the period. Auriol was a member of French bohemian culture, a denizen of the Chat Noir ("Black Cat Café") and long a friend of

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. Georges Auriol was part of the Fumist group and learned a great deal from them, both in behavior and in creativity.

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greatly appreciated his free and ″ incoherent″ manner of behavior and wrote several stories about him, one of which was called: ″My friend Georges Ariol″.''

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��. (or ''a book in the penultimate sense of the word)''. — Saint Petersburg: Center of Middle Music & Faces of Russia, 2013. — 544 p. (in Russian) Auriol illustrated

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and for the Théâtre du Chat Noir in the

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district of Paris, one of which became a popular poster.

Typefaces

All fonts cast by G. Peignot & Fils.

Works by George Auriol

*''The Harpsichord of Yeddo.'' Prose poem. Appears in English in ''Specimens of the Forms of Discourse'', compiled and edited by E.H. Lewis (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1900), p. 45. *
Le Premier Livre des cachets, marques, et monogrammes dessinés
' (Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1901). *''Les Trente-six Vues de la Tour Eiffel'', illustrations by Henri Rivière, prologue by Arsène Alexandre (Paris: Imprimerie Eugène Verneau, 1902). George Auriol: typography, layout, & design.

Notes

References

*Fields, Armond and Leroy-Crevecœur, Marie. ''George Auriol''. Layton, Utah: Peregrine Smith Books, 1985. (, ) *Brief mention a
typophile.com

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