Maxime Plescia-Buchi

Geometric and typographic blackwork

Sang Bleu (Zurich, London, Los Angeles)

Maxime Plescia-Buchi is a Swiss tattoo artist, graphic designer, and creative director, best known as the founder of Sang Bleu and for a geometric, typographic blackwork style. He works through Sang Bleu studios in Zurich, London, and Los Angeles.

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Born in 1978 in Lausanne, Switzerland, Plescia-Buchi trained in typography and graphic design at ECAL in Lausanne and apprenticed under the Swiss tattooer Filip Leu, the training he describes as most formative, before beginning to tattoo professionally around 2009. His tattooing is graphic and architectural: heavy black geometry, precise linework, blackwork fields, and a strong typographic sensibility carried over from his work as a type designer, an approach widely associated with the Sang Bleu identity and influential across contemporary tattooing. He founded the Sang Bleu magazine in London in 2006, which grew into a wider project spanning fashion, art, and tattooing, and now encompasses tattoo studios, reported as opening in London in 2014 and Zurich in 2016, alongside a branding and design agency. His other ventures include the type-design company Swiss Typefaces, the tattoo-culture publication TTTism, and co-founding the art magazine Novembre, and his design clients have included Nike, Alexander McQueen, and Hublot.

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