Jean-Baptiste Levée
Born in 1981 in Normandy, France, Jean-Baptiste Levée is a type designer and founder of Production Type. Levée has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion, and media. His work has won multiple awards and has been shown internationally in group and solo shows. It is featured in the permanent collections of the French national library (BnF), the Decorative Arts museum of Paris, and the National Center of arts (Cnap); of the Newberry Library in Chicago, and several printing museums in Europe.
He is a Vice-President at ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), honorary counselor of the Letterform Archive (San Francisco), and consults as a design expert advisor for the French Public Investment Bank (BPI) where he is contributing to the spread of design in innovative businesses. He is a partner in tech startup Prototypo. Levée teaches typeface design at the EsadType program in Amiens.
[Jean-Baptiste Levée, February 2019]
