50 moons

Jean-Benoît Levy

Celebrating Apollo 11’s travel from July 16th to 24th, 1969, this poster reminds today’s earth inhabitants, the peace goal of this event. Included datas in poster : trans-lunar, trans-earth coast, amount of hours of the mission, exact time on the Moon at the moment of the first step, excerpt from the plaque “Here men from the planet earth first set foot on the moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind,” a qr-code leads to a one-hour audio of key moments of the 195-hours mission.

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    Jean-Benoît Levy, Switzerland (1998)

    Multi-task visual communicator with nomadic aspirations. Jean-Benoit Levy (JBL) is a Swiss-American graphic designer, visual artist, educator and occasional troublemaker of visual conventions. Trained at the Basel School of Design...

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    Celebrating Apollo 11’s travel from July 16th to 24th, 1969, this poster reminds today’s earth inhabitants, the peace goal of this event. Included datas in poster : trans-lunar, trans-earth coast, amount of hours of the mission, exact time on the Moon at the moment of the first step, excerpt from the plaque “Here men from the planet earth first set foot on the moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind,” a qr-code leads to a one-hour audio of key moments of the 195-hours mission.

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    Jean-Benoît Levy, Switzerland (1998)

    Multi-task visual communicator with nomadic aspirations.
    Jean-Benoit Levy (JBL) is a Swiss-American graphic designer, visual artist, educator and occasional troublemaker of visual conventions.
    Trained at the Basel School of Design in the Swiss tradition of typography by Armin Hofmann, Wolfgang Weingart, Peter von Arx and more,
    he founded Studio A N D in Basel in 1989, working across identity, typography, publishing and visual communication.
    Since 2006, he has been based in San Francisco while maintaining an international practice between Europe, the US and Asia. His work and teaching explore the spaces between graphic design, visual culture and everyday communication.
    He shares his experience through exhibitions, workshops and teaching, with recurring interests in street advertising, typography, visual systems and the unexpected ways images communicate.

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    https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/handbook

    (2005)

    • Jean-Benoit Levy

    Lars Müller Publishers

    Confirming that hand signs constitute a global, inter-cultural metalanguage, this publication invites us to observe our own surroundings with a new curiosity and sense of awareness.

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    Lecturer

    • Undergraduate

    2006 – 2026

    • San Jose State University (USA)
    • Art Center College of Design, Europe (Switzerland)
    • Kunstgewerbeschule Base (Switzerland)

    Basic for graphic design and typography