Formwork

An ongoing construction site.
Formwork is an independent design studio founded by Barbara Virginia Tedeschi (IT) and César Bourgeois (FR), working across visual communication, art direction, and spatial thinking.

We guide projects through their formation. We are drawn to ideas in the making — unstable, unfinished, and full of potential. We work to develop solid foundations, building structures designed to hold and evolve over time. Alongside client work, Formwork operates as a Lab. A space for independent exploration, where ideas can exist outside of immediate application. These experiments generate friction, producing noise that feeds back into commissioned projects.

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

Services

Art Direction

Typography

Exhibition Design

Editorial Design

Brand Identity

Website Design

Clients
Nekua
Massimo Osti Studio

Selle Royal Group

Under

Maison Chimère

info@formworkstudio.eu, @formworkstudio.eu

Identity for Massimo Osti Studio, built as a system of symbol, logotype and custom typefaces working together to reinforce the structure of the brand. The project draws on Osti's own graphic production, gathering references from his archive and reinterpreting them in a more contemporary register. The Mosans typeface follows the same approach, reworking the typefaces used across Osti's other brands into a coherent family. The project was also the context in which the studio developed the first version of Fuerte.

Design: Formwork Studio

Custom Typeface: Mosans, Formwork Studio

Retail Typeface: Fuerte, Formwork Studio

Project type: Brand Identity

Year: 2023

Client: Massimo Osti Studio