Philippe Apeloig, who grew up in Paris, was educated at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. After graduating and spending two transformative training periods at Total Design in Amsterdam, he worked as a designer for the Musée d’Orsay in Paris from 1985 to 1987. In 1988, Apeloig received a grant from the French Foreign Ministry to work in Los Angeles with April Greiman. Later, from 1993 to 1994, he was honoured with a research and residency grant at the French Academy of Art in the Villa Medici in Rome. Apeloig taught typography and graphic design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris from 1992 to 1999, and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City from 1999 to 2002. He established his own design studio in Paris in 1989 and has been working since then on design projects such as posters, logos, typefaces, and communication materials for cultural events, publishers and institutions.