Benjamin Dumond
FREE SOFTWARE, GRAPHIC DESIGN
EXPERIMENTAL TYPEFACES
& WEIRD THEORIES
Librist Graphic Designer, I'm a active member of Bonjour Monde and Plain Form foundry with whom I co-created Plain Text, a publication about exploratory type design. I've also created Grifi, where I publish things about typeface design, trying to approach it in an unusual way, through fiction and essays.
Currently based in Lyon, I'm interested in editorial design, experimental type and writing. I like using scripts, rituals and non mainstream softwares. Contact → bonjour@benjamindumond.fr
Publications / Press
2025 ⋅« Serif Obscura ». Plain Text 2, Plain Form.2025 ⋅« Type as a labyrinthe ». Plain Text 1, Plain Form.2024 ⋅« Mystery, Michaux and Mystic ». After Michaux, Plain Form.2022 ⋅« L.Descroix and B.Dumond collaborate on their experimental typeface Ready for the launch of Plain Form ». Collide24.2022 ⋅« Fiction and philosophy drive Benjamin Dumond’s experimental type projects ». It’s Nice that.2021 ⋅« Jester: Créer ses propres outils » Étapes n°265, Étapes editions.2020 ⋅« Typographie de l'impossible ». FIG : International Graphic Design Festival.2019 ⋅« All work and no play make Jake a Dull Boy ». Expérience du Récit, EESAB Lorient.2019 ⋅« Bonjour Monde, procédés alternatifs dans le champ de la création graphique ». Etapes n°251, Étapes editions.2018 ⋅« Typographica Hermerica ». Azimut n°48-49 : Le type. Règne, crise et critique, ÉSADSE/Cité du design.
Workshops
- 2025 ⋅ Écritures Insensées, ESAD, Valence.
- 2025 ⋅ BioDesign Numérique, Faculté de Nîmes.
- 2024 ⋅ Obsidian Gobelet, DSAA Design, Chaumont.
- 2024 ⋅ D'un code naïf, Faculté de Nîmes.
- 2023 ⋅ Random Wiki, Lisaa, Paris.
- 2022 ⋅ sSsSSsSSsSs, Lisaa, Paris.
- 2021 ⋅ Décés Haine, Faculté de Nîmes.
- 2021 ⋅ You Dense, Lisaa, Paris.
- 2021 ⋅ Miroir Liquide, Faculté de Nîmes.
- 2020 ⋅ Espace-Ton, Lisaa, Paris.
- 2019 ⋅ Worms & Horses, Liminal Festival, Bucarest.
- 2019 ⋅ FerroCal, Ensad, Paris.
Talks / Exhibitions
2025 ⋅Why we need experimental typography. TGA, Raabs. Austria.2025 ⋅Décortiquer la commande : La revue Plain Text. ÉSAC Cambrai.2024 ⋅La typographie comme labyrinthe. Rencontres de Lure, Lurs.2024 ⋅Lettres d'amour. Le Bel Ordinaire, Pau.2023 ⋅Table ronde : Pourquoi Gutenberg nous intéresse aujourd’hui ? BNF, Paris.2022 ⋅Abstraction typographique, le numérique comme espace métaphysique. ISBA, Besançon.2022 ⋅Erwin etc. « Fonts & Faces in all their forms », Fonderie de l’image, Bagnolet (with Lucas Descroix).2018 ⋅Donner à voir, EnsadLab x PrePostPrint, EnsAD, Paris (with Bonjour Monde).
Educational background
- Master (DNSEP) — in Graphic design, 2015 [ ESAD, Valence, Fr ]
- Degree (DNAT) — in Graphic design, 2012 [ École Duperré, Paris, Fr ]