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Clémence Imbert

Clémence Imbert is a lecturer at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), where she teaches semiotics and the history of graphic design in the Bachelor of Visual Communication. An alumna of the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, she holds an agrégation in modern literature and a doctorate in art history. Her research focuses on the history of graphic design. She is the author of Couvertures de livres. Une histoire graphique (Actes Sud, 2022).
  • « La mission de graphiste dépasse largement le domaine de la mise en forme »

    Entretien avec E+K (Élise Gay et Kévin Donnot)

    by
    • Clémence Imbert

    ISSUE fait peau neuve ! Depuis le mois d’avril 2025, ses lecteur·icexs bénéficient d’une interface plus attrayante et de fonctionnalités qui permettent d’explorer de manière plus dynamique les contenus existants et futurs. Initiée en 2023…

  • Lundis-Livres : Clémence Imbert

    Why History Matters to Graphic Design

    by
    • Julie Enckell Julliard
    • Clémence Imbert
    • Florence Marguerat

    What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content? The Lundis…

  • Lundis-Livres : Nicolas Nova

    by
    • Julie Enckell Julliard
    • Clémence Imbert
    • Nicolas Nova

    What are books for? What role should they play in an art and design curriculum? How does fiction inform critical writing—or is it the other way around? And, for that matter, how does the form of a book enhance the meaning of its content? The Lundis…

  • Memes and Image Analysis

    by
    • Sarah Courtade
    • Maïlys Crovara Pescia
    • Margarida Gama Santos Correia
    • Clémence Imbert
    • Alba Kouango
    • Lucile Loisel

    This article describes the teaching on memes as part of the Image Analysis course for first-year students of the Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication.

  • In Search of the Female User

    Gendered Representations in Computer Advertising

    by
    • Clémence Imbert

    This text offers an iconographic study of the figure of the female computer-user based on advertising brochures from the second half of the 20th century. What fictional situations do these commercial photographs represent? And above all, what gender…