Empire

Founded by François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold, the Empire publishing house is an extension of the Syndicat studio's activities related to images, graphic design and relations with artists. The company does not wish to define an editorial line regarding types of publications but to make questions of reproduction, documentation, and the circulation of images central through catalogues, monographs, theoretical works, magazines, posters or re-editions.
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57 titles
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Jean Jullien - Mermed 1
Jean Jullien
Mermed 1
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
forthcoming
The first in a series of books dedicated to Jean Jullien's paintings, this book uses paper formats to contrast the artist's preparatory notebooks with exhibition views of his paintings of Mediterranean environments.
Faire – To look at things - An award: What is a most beautiful book?
Faire – To look at things #34 – An award: What is a most beautiful book?
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
forthcoming
The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.
Faire – To look at things - A typeface: \
Faire – To look at things #43 – A typeface: "Typographic writing"
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
forthcoming
The reissue of issue 43 of the critical graphic design journal: a reflection on the dynamics of formal relationships between writing and typography.
Faire – To look at things - Graphic Designers as Iconographers
Faire – To look at things #53 – Graphic Designers as Iconographers
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
forthcoming
What happens, then, when contemporary graphic designers appear to take up the torch of an iconography that so-called iconographer-artists had already reclaimed—since the beginning of the last century—from graphic designers themselves, along with their culture and skills? (by Thierry Chancogne).
Jocaste
Jocaste #0
2025
French edition
forthcoming
The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.
Faire – To look at things - A Mode of Representation: 3D
Faire – To look at things #52 – A Mode of Representation: 3D
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Through a combination of critical texts and a visual essay, this issue of Faire explores 3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI, or three-dimensional computer graphics.
Énormément bizarre - Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
Énormément bizarre – Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou ebook
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Changer la prose du monde) - Pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis 2024-25
Cambiare la prosa del mondo (Changer la prose du monde) – Pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis 2024-25
2025
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
The 2025 Villa Medici residents catalogue.
Herman de Vries - Mouans-Sartoux, Paris, Eschenau, Digne-les-Bains, Trédrez-Locquémeau
Herman de Vries
Mouans-Sartoux, Paris, Eschenau, Digne-les-Bains, Trédrez-Locquémeau
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book is a visual and geographical journey through the artist's work and exhibitions, enriched by five original samples—olive leaves, charcoal, street paper, earth and seaweed—inserted and activated by hand according to the artist's recommendations.
Agora - La place du musée
Agora – La place du musée
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
An exhibition catalogue and a review of all the mediation, residency and circulation activities at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco... with some fifty stickers to choose from and stick on.
Sonia de Puineuf - Télégraphes de l\'Utopie - L\'art des avant-gardes en Europe Centrale 1918-1939
Sonia de Puineuf
Télégraphes de l'Utopie – L'art des avant-gardes en Europe Centrale 1918-1939
2025
French edition
A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.
Faire – To look at things - \
Faire – To look at things #51 – "Yell Outside": International Library of Fashion Research
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world's most comprehensive repository of specialized fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude Fellay discusses the challenges facing fashion research today.
Dessin - Collection Antoine de Galbert
Dessin – Collection Antoine de Galbert
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book brings together over 500 drawings from the Antoine de Galbert Collection, gathered over a period of almost 40 years. Works by 213 artists are presented in the form of an alphabet book, generating chance encounters.
Richard Niessen - Faire – To look at things - A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry
Richard Niessen
Faire – To look at things #50 – A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Four epistolary exchanges between Thierry Chancogne and Richard Niessen about the Palace of Typographic Masonry, a project initiated in 2014 by the Dutch graphic designer as an imaginary architecture devoted entirely to the variety, abundance, digressions and poetry of graphic expression.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
Lawrence Weiner
Faire – To look at things #49
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
Faire – To look at things - Mechanical Translations
Faire – To look at things #47 & 48 – Mechanical Translations
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
This double issue of the critical graphic design journal examines the origins of the automation and mechanization of translation and writing.
Faire – To look at things - A calculated approach: Norm\'s unreasonable reasonableness
Faire – To look at things #46 – A calculated approach: Norm's unreasonable reasonableness
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
The 46th issue of the critical graphic design journal is devoted to the Zurich-based graphic design studio Norm.
Éléonore False - Ensembles
Éléonore False
Ensembles
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
First monograph.
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
2024
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
Martin Bethenod - Rien de Personnel
Martin Bethenod
Rien de Personnel
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
10 years of stolen iPhone photos of dogs. We follow the author's life and peregrinations, the constancy of a singular passion and the evolution of phones, all with images that are still modest, but constitute a substantial sum—1000 images in 384 flip book pages, with the Instragram scroll effect.
A history of images / Une histoire d\'images - Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble
A history of images / Une histoire d'images – Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Through more than 500 images by 95 photographers, the Musée de Grenoble's collection of photographs from Antoine de Galbert's collection and his foundation offers an impressive panorama of our times and the decisive role played by photography in shaping our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.
Aurélien Mole - 30 mn
Aurélien Mole
30 mn
2023
no text
A photo report in an photo lab (artist's book).
Poster Photo Magazine
Poster Photo Magazine #01
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
The first issue of the biannual magazine offering an heterogeneous and multifaceted exploration of approaches to modern and contemporary photography through 12 large-format wall posters, folded and detachable, with Julia Andréone, Roman Cieslewicz, Marie Quéau, Stig De Block, Area Of Work, Aurélien Froment, Fabio Mauri, Thomas Demand, Marie Deteneuille, Simon Menner, Kuba Ryniewicz, and Deborah Turbeville.
Elika Hedayat -
Elika Hedayat
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
First monograph of the Franco-Iranian artist.
Jennifer Caubet - Je gage, iels gagent, nous gageons
Jennifer Caubet
Je gage, iels gagent, nous gageons
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Retrospective monograph: a panorama of Jennifer Caubet's work over fifteen years.
Ali Kazma - Sentimental / A House of Ink
Ali Kazma
Sentimental / A House of Ink
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Recent video works by Turkish artist Ali Kazma.
Sky Hopinka - The sun comes in whenever it wants
Sky Hopinka
The sun comes in whenever it wants
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
First monograph of the artist, poet, and filmmaker Sky Hopinka whose work embraces Native American perspectivism and reverses the primacy of representation of non-Western identities.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 10 (#39, 40, 41)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 10 (#39, 40, 41)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 39 to 41 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Faire – To look at things - Special Issue – A debate: Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel
Faire – To look at things #38 – Special Issue – A debate: Jan van Toorn, Wim Crouwel
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
A contemporary reading of the major divergences within the theory of graphic design from the encounter between the two Dutch graphic designers and typographers Wim Crouwel and Jan Van Toorn in the 1970s.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 10 (#35, 36, 37)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 10 (#35, 36, 37)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 35 to 37 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Simon Nicaise - Pain Liquide
Simon Nicaise
Pain Liquide #01
2022
French edition
A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 09 (#31, 32, 33, 34)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 09 (#31, 32, 33, 34)
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 08 (#27, 28, 29, 30)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 08 (#27, 28, 29, 30)
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 27 to 30 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Artists as Iconographers
Artists as Iconographers
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Catalogue dedicated to contemporary artists whose production concentrate on the reuse of existing images (new expanded edition). This publication investigates the various practices of these iconographer artists through documentation, illustrations, essays, and interviews (with Haris Epaminonda, Wade Guyton, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jonathan Monk, Linder Sterling…).
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré - Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Paris la Consciencieuse : Paris la Guideuse du monde
2020
French edition
The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".
Faire – To look at things - Volume 07 (#23, 24, 25, 26)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 07 (#23, 24, 25, 26)
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 23 to 26 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 06 (#19, 20, 21)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 06 (#19, 20, 21)
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 19 to 21 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Faire – To look at things - Artists Posters
Faire – To look at things #22 – Artists Posters
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold (Syndicat) invited Aurélien Mole, Jérôme Dupeyrat, Mathias Augustyniak (M/M Paris) and Thierry Chancogne to express their views on art posters, artist posters, posters made by artists, posters made with artists, posters made for artists, and the occasional participation of graphic designers (special issue of the critical review dedicated to graphic design).
Faire – To look at things - Volume 05 (#16, 17, 18)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 05 (#16, 17, 18)
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 16 to 18 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Aurélien Mole - Stud
Aurélie Jacquet, Aurélien Mole
Stud
2019
English edition
Stud compiles photographs that Aurélie Jacquet and Aurélien Mole shot while they were students at the French National School of Photography.
Jennifer Caubet - Un atelier à soi
Jennifer Caubet
Un atelier à soi
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book traces Jennifer Caubet's work during her residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (Cirva), from 2017 to 2019.
Co-Creation
Co-Creation
2019
English edition
A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.
Syndicat - Proof
Syndicat
Proof
2018
no text
A visual archive of the Islamic State's destruction of artifacts.
L\'Écart absolu
L'Écart absolu
2018
French edition
This catalogue documents a collective exhibition program inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier. “L'Écart absolu” is a dialogue between architecture, artistic heritage and contemporary works, in which artists come together, interact and experiment on the edge of design, visual arts, decorative arts and applied arts.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 03 (#10, 11, 12)
Faire – To look at things – Volume 03 (#10, 11, 12)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Issues 10 to 12 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design, around Robert Brownjohn, Klaus Scherübel, Julia Born, Simon Starling et Poster of Girl, Revue Emmanuelle.
NASA - Graphic Design Guide
NASA – Graphic Design Guide
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Facsimile reprinting of Danne & Blackburn's graphics standards manual for the redesign of NASA's visual identity in 1975.
IBM - Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987
IBM – Graphic Design Guide from 1969 to 1987
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Facsimile reprinting of Paul Rand's graphics standards manuals for the redesign of the visual identity of the multinational technology company IBM from 1962 to 1987.
Énormément bizarre - Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
Énormément bizarre – Collection Jean Chatelus – Donation fondation Antoine de Galbert au Centre Pompidou
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
A contemporary cabinet of curiosities, comprising the singular collection assembled by Jean Chatelus (1939-2021) over the course of his life: sculptures, installations, paintings, photographs, drawings by the greatest figures of the 20th century, as well as by outsider artists and "enfants terribles", pieces of non-Western art and objects from popular traditions, reflecting diverse aesthetics and voices.
Disorders - Antoine de Galbert Collection at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art
Disorders – Antoine de Galbert Collection at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
sold out
Antoine de Galbert offers a glimpse into his collection, freed from the traditional norms of art history: an immersion into his artistic universe, through a selection of over two hundred works presented without hierarchy or classification.
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