Profile Jean-Baptiste Levée

Profile

Jean-Baptiste Levée (b. 1981) persued an education in visual communication at the école Estienne. In 2002 he began studying type design with Franck Jalleau, Michel Derre & Margaret Gray as teachers. His interests then vary from ligature systems and signage-oriented type design, as well as traditionnal printing techniques.

Jean-Baptiste Levée later worked for Le Typophage, under whose direction he developed several corporate fonts, before establishing himself as a freelance designer in 2005. While bringing on his activity as print-oriented graphic designer, he specializes in lettering and logotype design and jointly develops his type designs. Jean-Baptiste Levée joins Porchez Typofonderie in 2006.

Jean-Baptiste is the country delegate for France at ATypI and is copy editor & writer for typographe.com, a collaborative type blog in French & the ATypI France online section.

He also is president of the association Zone Opaque, a fine arts-focused letterpress printshop with digital and traditional abilities.

Jean-Baptiste is, among other subjects, in charge of the font sales at Porchez Typofonderie. If you have any question on this subject, he is the right person to contact.

To contact directly Jean-Baptiste Levée: remplace the prefix of the usual email info with jblevee.