My name is Maël Bächtold and I am a swiss based type designer and art director. I graduated from écal in 2021. In 2018, I received with honors my bachelor of communication design at HEAD - Genève. My main focus is designing typefaces for retail or customs for clients. In other fields I also work with 3D or motion, I like to mix those fields with types and aim for unexpected and surprising results. Therefore, my work is a combination of experimentations and clarity but also of precision with a particular attention to detail.
By the way, I also developed a little video game once.
CLIENTS
Autograph studio
POPSHOP
En Plein Art
Luxury Venture Group
Éveil à la nature
DMJ Orientation
PepperBoum
EXPERIENCES
2013 - TODAY
Freelance jobs
2019
Internship at Nootype foundry
2018
Signage design for Paris Photo over a workshop with Golgotha studio
2013 - 2014
Photographer for the concert hall La Case à Chocs
EDUCATION
2018 - 2021
Master of type design
– ECAL - Lausanne, CH
2017
Bachelor of communication design
(as an exchange student)
– DSKD - Kolding, DK
2015 - 2018
Bachelor of visual communication
– HEAD - Geneva, CH
2014 - 2015
Preparatory year of visual communication
– CFPAA - Geneva, CH
2012 - 2013
Professional baccalaureate
– CPLN - Neuchâtel, CH
2009 - 2012
CFC of mediamatician
– CPLN - Neuchâtel, CH
© 2021 Maël Bächtold