Guillaume Berry

Guillaume Berry

Designer in Lausanne, Switzerland, He/Him

About

/ Art Direction + UX/UI + Branding + Type Design
/ 🔠 › @marmitedefontes

/ Music
/ #Feminist #TypeNerd ⧖

Side Projects

2020

My Digital Type Foundry

Exhibitions

2007
Breda, NL

First edition of the festival. Invited with Atelier télescopique providing an generative installation displayed at night in a barbershop window. The festival regrouped people from: Akroe, Rinzen, Staynice, Via Grafik, Visual Data, etc.

2006
Calacala City at Maison de l'Architecture et de la Ville
Lille, France

An interactive installation inviting you to create and publish online your dream palace, inspired from color and shapes of architectures and cultures from India. All the designed palaces create an imaginary landscape: Calacala City.

Speaking

2021
Lausanne, Switzerland

Let’s go beyond Bold, Regular and Medium! I’m pretty sure there are corners in typography that you didn’t explore yet. Let me take you on a journey to those lands.

Let’s shade a Light (pun intended) on the topics like:
Writing systems
The birth and production of fonts
The type business
Why care about licenses

A talk about digital type, not limited to the web. Accessible to anyone willing to go beyond the font files they found on their computers.

2018
Design Systems at United Nations Designers Meetup
Geneva, Switzerland

A lecture about design, system thinking, documentation and collaboration and how it helps organisations.

2016
Lyon, France

Cooking as a metaphor for design and information architecture.

2016
Lyon, France

A conference about why and how care about internationalisation (i18n) & localisation (l10n) in your digital projects.

This talk was also given at IxDA Lausanne meetup in 2017.

2016
Helsinky, Finland

“ Let's go green for a few minutes and envision our design practices from the perspective of a pea. What's your life like inside the pod?” — A fun yet serious metaphor for design teams.

2015
Prototype first at Antistatique morning talks
Lausanne, Switzerland

Prototyping 101: a bit of history, a pinch of goals and a chunk of opportunities doing and testing prototypes in our design practice.

2014
Amsterdam, NL

Hungry? Cook interaction! A food exploration for interaction design.

Eating is a primary human need and one of our own energy source. We have developed tools and techniques to hunt, grow, produce and keep all sorts of food. We have designed countless solutions to cook and present food, make it an interesting activity to renew.

Interaction design is like a problem solving cake with human emotions flavors in it… Let's find out if we can call ourselves Design Chefs or at least be good interaction cooks for people.

Writing

2021

The challenge that bootstrapped a font family project and revived ideas for many more fonts!

2021

100 days, 100 lettering pieces, 1 article.

2013

I’m a drummer. Sort of…

Awards

2019
The Lovie Awards shorlist from Doctors without Borders

Shortlisted for the project with Doctors without Borders in the Charitable Organisations & Non-Profit category.

2017

The Online Journalism Awards™ attributed the Winner Award for General Excellence in Online Journalism in the Medium Newsroom category, to our client Le Temps and the revamp project we worked on.

2016
Best of Swiss Web from Best of Swiss Web

Bronze award in the usability category for Le Temps complete revamp project.

2015
“Grand” Award - Mobile category from Association du Grand

“Grand” Award (1st) of the “Grand Prix Romande de la Création” in the mobile category for Le Temps complete revamp project.

2015
Bronze award for UX / Usability from Le Meilleur du Web

Bronze award “Le Meilleur du Web” in the UX / Usability category for Le Temps complete revamp project.

Features

2019

“In August, we are celebrating lines. Curved lines, straight lines, finishing lines: whether symbolic or composing a drawing or a building, lines are the very basis of the aesthetic equilibrium surrounding us. We chose to entrust the keys of this month’s artwork to the talent of Art Director Guillaume Berry. He took up the challenge and is offering a unique and evolving typography that you will discover as the weeks go by.”

Work Experience

2014 — 2022
Lausanne, Switzerland

• Apr 2019 › Dec 2022: Lead UX/UI Design manager & Partner
• Jan 2017 › Mar 2019: Lead UX/UI Design manager
• Apr 2014 › Dec 2016: Lead Visual Designer

2012 — 2014
Lyon, France

Skills:
— Wireframing
— Prototyping
— Creative briefs
— Art Direction / Visual design
— Interaction design
— Brand Identity
— Team management
— Quality assessment

For:
— Native apps
— Web-based projects
— Social media campaigns

2003 — 2009
Lille, France

— Brand identity
— Graphic design
— Type design
— Web design
— Project management
— Production follow-up
— Publishers relationship

2001 — 2001
UI Artist / Game Designer at Ai-Wave / Gameseed
Lyon, France

— UI design for both development tools & game UI
— Game design: high-level principles, mood boards and low-poly modeling
— Graphic design: pitch deck for game funding and other communication items
— 3D modeling for real-time rendering: roads, buildings and objects, textures and bump mapping, misc. effects

Volunteering

2016 — 2018
Lyon, France

The annual IxDA conference took place in Lyon, France in 2018. With a core team of 18 people, we did bid, won, produced, enjoyed and celebrated an amazing week of workshops, conferences and social events.

2011 — 2018
Lyon, France

— Monthly meetings organisation
— Communication
— Partnership

Education

2001 — 2002
Master Degree of Design management and Information Systems at Université Lumière Lyon 2
Lyon, France

Major: User Centered Design, Design Management and Information Systems
Minor: Web Technologies, Project Management and Accessibility

1999 — 2001
University Degree of Digital Design at Université Lumière Lyon 2
Lyon, France

Major: Digital Design, Animation, Web Technologies
Minor: Project Management, 3D modeling, Intellectual Property, Digital Marketing

1996 — 1999
Lyon, France

Major: Graphic Design, Publishing and Advertising
Minor: Cinema, Photography and Illustration

1994 — 1996
High School Diploma at Lycée Ozanam
Mâcon, France

Major: Sociology and Economics

Certifications

2022
2022
Branding Masterclasses II from Future London Academy
2018

Two day workshop on a professional approach to designing a typeface.

In the workshop, Bruno Maag will explain an effective and efficient approach to designing a typeface (family). The participants will learn how to define the requirements, aesthetically, technically, linguistically, and how to setup the design process.

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