/Product & graphic designer — Paris/

From identity to interface. Brands and products that read effortlessly.

For startups and companies, I design the brand and the product as one piece of work: one point of contact, one visual system, from logo to design system. Trained as a typographer, I bring the same rigour everywhere: clear hierarchy, frictionless journeys.

/Right now/

  • UX/UI designer at Figs Lab
  • Co-founder of Rework
  • Lecturer at EmLyon Business School
  • Available now

/Clients & partners/

  • Figs Lab
  • Ultra
  • Armée de terre
  • Big Bad Wolf
  • EmLyon Business School
  • EPSAA
  • AHA Paris
  • RDS 93

/Approach/

I come from type design. A good typeface goes unnoticed: you read, you understand, you move on. A brand doesn’t stop at the logo; it lives on every screen. I design both together so they speak the same language, and I check it with user testing.

MFAGraphic & digital design, ESAD Amiens, 2022
3 typefacesdesigned: Ekman, eDGAR, Baïo
Since 2023UX/UI designer on gaming and public-sector products
Figma prototyping workshop with EmLyon Business School students

/Training/

I teach what I practise.

Three- to five-day workshops where participants design, test and present a real prototype, sometimes with a partner company. In French or English, for schools and product teams alike.

  • EmLyon Business School
  • EPSAA
  • La Toile
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/Lab/

Type and publishing research.

The whole Lab →
  • Revue Exercice Reading and research platform for the journal Web 2022

    The reading and research platform of Exercice, a journal exploring society through architecture and urbanism: article reading, a content explorer and navigation by issue.

  • Post-Internet publishing MFA thesis in hybrid form Publishing · Web 2022

    An MFA thesis published both as a book and online: a historical, technical and semantic analysis of the digital environment, followed by an inventory of hybrid publishing forms, between pragmatism and aesthetics.

  • eDGAR Research protocol on flaws in printed reproduction Type design 2021

    A type research protocol on recognition, sample fluctuation, the median and vectorisation: how a letterform’s singularity survives, or not, printed reproduction. A collection app supports the protocol.

  • Ekman Typeface family: one instance per emotion Type design 2021

    What role can type play in conveying emotion? Ekman offers one instance per emotion (anger, teasing, shyness…), drawn between speech and body language. Each instance varies to express how intensely the emotion is felt, with three styles tuned to screen resolutions.

  • ESA identity Speculative identity for the European Space Agency (student project) Identity 2021

    A speculative identity for the European Space Agency: bringing the public together around fundamental research and space exploration, with a poetic, dreamlike view of space.

/Contact/

A product to clarify, a brand to build?

valentin.dewez@gmail.com
  • Reply within 2 working days
  • Paris & remote
  • Detailed quote on request
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