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Jean-Renaud Cuaz, Editor & Typographic Designer

He lives in Sète, where he works as a publisher and typographer. With multidisciplinary experience acquired in Chicago and Paris in communications, graphic design, and typography, Jean-Renaud founded the cultural label Audasud in 2020, with the goal of designing and creating innovative content, and the key words being boldness and the South. In 2024, L’An Demain Éditions will join Audasud with a catalog of regional publications by authors dedicated to their heritage.

Jean-Renaud publishes since 2021 the Bulletin Culturel Audasud and since 2022 the Bulletin littéraire des Automn’Halles, 2 monthly newsletters. He presides the Festival of Books of Sète (The Automn’Halles) and has lead the Society of historic and scientific studies of Sète and its region (Sehsser) from 2024 to 2025.

Le books from the author:

Multiples symboles d’une ville singulière, Sète en 90 vignettes, 2018

AlphaBrassens, le dictionnaire amoureux d’un poète turlupin, un abécédaire pictographique de Georges Brassens, 2021

Bêtes de Sète, les animaux de l’île singulière et de ses environs, 2022

Le Trombinoscope Audasud, Volume 1, 2022

Une Ville et son Portfolio, Sète au fil d’une collection de 30 photographies historiques (collective book), 2023

Sète, hier, aujourd’hui, dans 350 ans… ( collective book), 2023

Le Grand Livre des Joutes de 1900 à 1951 with Jean-Louis Cianni, 2024