An internationally known designer who has distinguished himself through his groundbreaking poster designs, he teaches typography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. For Apeloig, graphic design is an expression of culture. To design a poster is to design an image that is impossible to communicate with words.
Posters become events in their time, a part of societal memory.
Apeloig prefers to use type as a texture, the strongest graphic element and the main part of the composition. He has shown his design work in solo and group exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka at Dai Nippon Printing Galleries, in Bordeaux at the architectural center Arc en Reve, and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and currently has work on view at The Cooper Union in New York. Apeloig has been awarded the Grand prix de l'affiche culturelle, organized by the National Library of France, three times. This year, he received a certificate of typographic excellence from the New York Directors Club 46, and has also won the 1999 special juror's prize from the Tokyo Type Directors Club, a 1998 Certificate of Excellence from the Society for Typographic Designers in England, and a 1997 Merit Award from the New York Art Directors Club, among many other awards. In 1998 he was elected a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.