Faucheux emphasized that each new book should be a unique object, shaped by type choice, proportion, and déroulement—the development of a visual concept over several pages.
This work is a major example of expressive typography, spanning hundreds of pages of innovative graphic compositions that visually represent the dialogue of the play.
Massin employed a variety of typefaces and compositional techniques, even stretching and bending the text to convey the dialogue's emotion and rhythm.
In addition to his extensive visual work, Massin authored several books, including La Lettre et l'Image (Letter and Image).
Writing in Eye magazine, Jan Middendorp praised La Cantatrice chauve and La Lettre et l'Image for their significant impact, noting: "These two masterpieces of typographic eccentricity became hot items among designers and art directors on both sides of the Atlantic, and were especially influential in America, where they helped trigger the post-functionalist approach of graphic design that eventually culminated in the eclecticism of the late 1980s and 1990s.