Sebastien Hayez

Formerly a graphic designer in a communication and advertising agency for over 10 years, he transitioned to teaching in 2015 as a professor of Graphic Design and then Visual Arts. Since 2011, he has also been a member of the experimental type design collective Velvetyne. After creating around a hundred book covers (Folio-SF, Denoël, J’ai Lu, Mnémos, La Clef d’Argent, etc.) and designing about twenty CDs, he prefers to spend his time teaching young minds. And when he’s not doing that, he enjoys using his free time to write articles about the history of graphic design, issues of brand identity, square-format books, the problems of tradition and modernism, the first issues of graphic design magazines, or the work and philosophy of Italian designer AG Fronzoni (1923-2002). His articles are published in magazines such as Étapes :, The Shelf Journal, Pli, Yellow Submarine, and Kiblind.