Baptiste Guesnon
Founder & Type Designer at Bloom Type
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolBaptiste Guesnon is a French type designer, creative coder and founder of Bloom Type, based in Stockholm, with 11 years of experience crafting experimental, commercial and bespoke typefaces. Trained at Estienne and ESAD Valence, he blends rigorous graphic-design foundations with programmatic approaches to variable typography and generative design. His studio work includes brand-defining commissions such as the Jean Paul Gaultier family typeface and generative projects for the Swedish Brain Foundation and Postmuseum. Comfortable across art direction, identity, front-end UI and creative coding, he bridges visual research and production-ready fonts. Known for exploring non-obvious intersections between code and letterform, he consistently turns typographic experimentation into usable, commercial solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Design graphique, with Honors, Bachelor's degree, Design graphique, with Honors at École EstienneMaster's degree, Design graphique, with Honors, Master's degree, Design graphique, with Honors at École Supérieure d’Art et Design de ValenceMaster's degree, Mode & Environnement, Master's degree, Mode & Environnement at DuperréPreparatory course, Design et arts appliqués, Preparatory course, Design et arts appliqués at Lycée Dumont d'Urville - Laplace
English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (31)
typography8
unicode8
variable-fonts8
fonts8
opentype8
freetype7
text-rendering7
buster7
control-panel7
truetype7
freeradius6
ufo6
php6
harfbuzz5
opentype-fonts5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BaGsn/SuperSizeMe
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
BaGsn/Coding-sessions
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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