{"id":709722,"date":"2026-02-03T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/709722\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:37:16","slug":"le-designer-franco-suisse-jean-widmer-est-decede-a-96-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/709722\/","title":{"rendered":"Le designer franco-suisse Jean Widmer est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 96 ans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le designer et graphiste franco-suisse Jean Widmer, auteur du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre logo du Centre Pompidou \u00e0 Paris et concepteur de la signal\u00e9tique des autoroutes fran\u00e7aises, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 96 ans, a annonc\u00e9 le Centre Pompidou.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Jean Widmer a transform\u00e9 l&rsquo;histoire du design graphique et de la communication visuelle\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e9crit le Centre Pompidou dans un communiqu\u00e9 diffus\u00e9 lundi.<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e9 en 1929 en Suisse al\u00e9manique, Jean Widmer s&rsquo;\u00e9tait install\u00e9 au milieu des ann\u00e9es 1950 \u00e0 Paris o\u00f9, devenu graphiste, il a con\u00e7u l&rsquo;identit\u00e9 visuelle de plusieurs lieux culturels, dont le Mus\u00e9e d&rsquo;Orsay, l&rsquo;Institut du Monde arabe et la Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France.<\/p>\n<p> &gt;&gt; L&rsquo;interview de Matthieu Cortat-Roller dans Forum\u00a0:   <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fu96oa-29139277.image.jpeg\" alt=\"Sp\u00e9cialiste du design \u00e9pur\u00e9, le graphiste suisse Jean Widmer est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9: interview de Matthieu Cortat-Roller (vid\u00e9o)\"\/>    Sp\u00e9cialiste du design \u00e9pur\u00e9, le graphiste suisse Jean Widmer est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9: interview de Matthieu Cortat-Roller (vid\u00e9o) \/ Forum \/ 4 min. \/ hier \u00e0 18:00 Un logo \u00e0 la renomm\u00e9e mondiale<\/p>\n<p>La plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre cr\u00e9ation de ce pionnier du minimalisme remonte \u00e0 1977 quand il con\u00e7oit le logo du Centre Pompidou qui vient d&rsquo;\u00eatre inaugur\u00e9: cinq lignes noires sur fond blanc, travers\u00e9es par une diagonale repr\u00e9sentant les diff\u00e9rents \u00e9tages du b\u00e2timent et son escalator.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4wwd73-29138629.image.jpeg\" alt=\"Le logo du Centre Pompidou. [centrepompidou.fr]\" title=\"Le logo du Centre Pompidou. [centrepompidou.fr]\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  Le logo du Centre Pompidou. [centrepompidou.fr] <\/p>\n<p>Ce logo, toujours utilis\u00e9 aujourd&rsquo;hui, a fait sa renomm\u00e9e mondiale. \u00ab\u00a0C&rsquo;est le logo que j&rsquo;ai dessin\u00e9 le plus vite de toute ma carri\u00e8re, je l&rsquo;avais d\u00e9j\u00e0 en t\u00eate\u00a0\u00bb, expliquait-il en novembre 2020, indique le communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0Son trait, inspir\u00e9 de l&rsquo;architecture du b\u00e2timent, symbolise aujourd&rsquo;hui parfaitement l&rsquo;ouverture, la pluridisciplinarit\u00e9 et l&rsquo;esprit de cr\u00e9ation qui nous animent. Son logo est devenu constitutif de l&rsquo;identit\u00e9 du Centre Pompidou\u00a0\u00bb, a salu\u00e9 Laurent Le Bon, le pr\u00e9sident de l&rsquo;institution, cit\u00e9 dans le communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"inline-title\">&gt;&gt; Lire aussi\u00a0: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.ch\/info\/culture\/arts-visuels\/8703458-a-88-ans-jean-widmer-remporte-lun-des-grands-prix-du-design-2017.html\" data-item-id=\"richtext_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A 88 ans, Jean Widmer remporte l&rsquo;un des Grands Prix du design 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sources\">ats\/boi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le designer et graphiste franco-suisse Jean Widmer, auteur du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre logo du Centre Pompidou \u00e0 Paris et concepteur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1358],"tags":[1348,1384,1385,1693,2502,29503,251,1386,14955,58,59,38031,1011,27,80195,626,104,602,17938],"class_list":["post-709722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-et-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-arts-et-design","tag-arts-et-divertissement","tag-arts-visuels","tag-cnac","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-designer","tag-divertissement","tag-entertainment","tag-fin-de-vie-et-mort","tag-fr","tag-france","tag-jean-widmer","tag-paris","tag-societe","tag-tourisme","tag-valeurs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/116009333144980505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}