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.