Jacques Richez studied at the Académie Royale des beaux-arts in Mons and, after completing his studies, joined a design studio in Brussels. During the war he enlisted in the Army, and returned in 1944 and set up his own studio. He took part in AGI exhibitions in London, Lausanne and Paris, and the Design in Print exhibition in Edinburgh, 1955. His design was used for the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and he was a member of the Institut belge d’esthétique industrielle and a lecturer at the Ecole technique de publicité in Brussels.