Hand signs

Jean-Benoît Levy

Different small colored hands are building a larger symbol, an open hand. Within five colors range are five categories of hands : Symbols or gestures, alone or in pairs, empty or holding an object. This poster presents some of the 200 signs of H-and-S sign system in complement of two other products: A font system and a book published at Lars Muller publishers by Jean-Benoit Levy. A qr-code brings the viewer to an animation of the entire production.

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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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    Different small colored hands are building a larger symbol, an open hand. Within five colors range are five categories of hands : Symbols or gestures, alone or in pairs, empty or holding an object. This poster presents some of the 200 signs of H-and-S sign system in complement of two other products: A font system and a book published at Lars Muller publishers by Jean-Benoit Levy. A qr-code brings the viewer to an animation of the entire production.

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    • Self initiated for a sig system at myfonts.com

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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

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