Empire

Founded by François Havegeer, Sacha Léopold and Kévin Lartaud, 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.

Paris

www.e-m-p-i-r-e.eu

empire@s-y-n-d-i-c-a-t.eu

18 titles

Collections :

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

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The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the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)

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)

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)

2019

bilingual edition (English / French)

Issues 16 to 18 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

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

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

2019

English edition

A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.

Co-Création

2019

French edition

A collective reflection on cooperative and co-creation artistic practices engaged in the social field.

Syndicat
Proof

2018

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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 04 (#13, 14, 15)

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

Issues 13 to 15 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design. Compilation includes studies on Peter Bil'ak's essay on the exhibition of graphic design; the posters produced by M/M (Paris) for CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient; and the collaboration between studio Spassky Fischer and Marseille's MUCEM.

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

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

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.

Faire – To look at things – Volume 02 (#5, 6, 7, 8)

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

Issues 5 to 8 of the critical review dedicated to Graphic design. Compilation includes studies on the following subjects: an Instagram post by studio Experimental Jetset for the Paradiso cultural centre in Amsterdam; a series of gestures, from Harun Farocki to L'Architecture Aujourd'hui; the publication Parallel Encyclopedia by Batia Suter; Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier's residency at the Villa Médicis.

Faire – To look at things – Volume 01 (#1, 2, 3, 4)

2018

bilingual edition (English / French)

sold out

The first four issues of the critical review dedicated to the analysis of Graphic design, published by Empire books (studio Syndicat). Each publication documents a specific object, addressed by a renowned author: the Rouge-gorge series at Éditions Cent pages by S.P. Millot; the database colorlibrary.ch by studio Maximage; the monograph Recollected Work by Mevis & Van Deursen; and the invitation cards by the artist Stanley Brouwn.