J:V

“This is the ‘point d’ironie’, made by a French writer and theorist Alcanter de Brahm at the end of the nineteenth century; its purpose being, when placed at the front of a sentence, to warn the reader that the following passage is about to be ironic, or, if at the end of a sentence, that the previous passage was ironic. It’s a bit like Spanish, where an upside-down question mark is used at the beginning of a sentence as well as the right way round at the end. Of course it makes a lot of difference where you put a punctuation, question or exclamation mark. In the case of the point d’ironie, it was never recorded exactly how it was to be used, so we just have to guess.” Ryan Gander, Loose Associations, Dot Dot Dot 6.

After having a little browse on the internet I also discovered that there is a hybrid periodical half magazine, half poster from France called Point D’Ironie. Published about 4 times a year with each issue being created by a different person whos occupation ranges from artist to architect to filmmaker.