Philippe Apeloig studied at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (Ensad). After two internships at Total Design in Amsterdam, he joined the Musée d’Orsay as a graphic designer in 1985. In 1987, Apeloig moved to Los Angeles to study and work with April Greiman. In 1993, he won a fellowship at the French Academy in Rome, where he designed typefaces. His series of posters for a dance and music festival, which used his original font, won the 1995 Tokyo Type Directors Club’s Gold Award. During the nineties, Apeloig taught typography in Paris at Ensad and was hired as a full-time professor of graphic design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York where he was also appointed curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. In 2013, the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris mounted a 30-year retrospective of Apeloig’s work. In 2015 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented an exhibition focused on the designer’s typographic posters. In 2017, the Ginza Graphic Gallery (GGG) in Tokyo mounted a survey of Apeloig’s work. Apeloig collaborated with Ateliers Jean Nouvel on the wayfinding system for the Louvre Abu Dhabi.