Guillaume

Pierre Guillaume is a typographer and master printer originally from France who settled in Montréal in the late 1950s. He married printmaker Janine Leroux in 1958, and together they founded the Sagitta studio-school, an artist-run typographic imprint central to Montréal's artistic print culture.

In the 1970s, he handled typographic design and printing for numerous artists’ books featuring original engravings by artists like Roland Giguère and Françoise Condamin. These limited-edition publications are now pillars of Québec's artists’ book heritage.

Known as a “compound typographer,” Pierre Guillaume played a structural role in disseminating the work of Montréal print artists while preserving artisanal techniques through his printing atelier.