About One Striped Rectangle: Jean Widmer and the Centre Pompidou Logo

Catherine de Smet holds a PhD in the History of Art at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. She is the author of two books published by Lars Müller Publishers: Le Corbusier: Architect of Books (2005) and Vers une architecture du livre: Le Corbusier, édition et mise en pages, 1912–1965 (2007). She teaches the history of graphic design at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes and at the École Supérieure d'Art et de Design in Amiens. Author of numerous essays about graphic design, she recently contributed to the catalogues of the exhibitions “Le Siècle du Jazz” at the Musée du Quai Branly, and “Elles” at Centre Pompidou. She curated several exhibitions, the most recent one at Galerie Anatome in Paris in 2007: “Wim Crouwel, architectures typographiques.”