We were asked to do the art direc­tion of the brand new brus­sels-based fes­ti­val called Abrupt. To kick off the release, we col­lab­o­rat­ed with motion design­er Vincent Van Lieshout to cre­ate the fea­tured cam­paign video. Be sure to check out the new web­site cod­ed by Studio Dier / www.abrupt.brussels

We worked around the idea of ​“por­tals”. We regard music as a trans­for­ma­tive force that guides lis­ten­ers through var­i­ous spaces and dimen­sions, each genre offer­ing a unique audi­to­ry jour­ney. Our visu­als reimag­ines music as an art form capa­ble of instan­ta­neous trav­el, tran­scend­ing time and bridg­ing dif­fer­ent uni­vers­es.

Project togeth­er with graph­ic design­er and artist Victor Verhelst. Thank you to all par­ties involved for trust­ing this style and let­ting it grow with the festival

From now on, a selec­tion of our designs are up for pur­chase at graph­ic design plat­form and pow­er­house The Brand Identity in three dif­fer­ent sizes. Some designs fea­ture our self-made type­faces like Smithe and Weimar. Each lim­it­ed edi­tion poster is a muse­um-qual­i­ty Giclée print, print­ed on Hahne Muehle Global Photorag 308gsm, a hand-picked archival art paper with a min­i­mum lifes­pan of 80 years.

Limited to only 50 copies per size, the posters are offered in A1, A2, or A3 dimen­sions. Worldwide ship­ping is avail­able, and the posters will be care­ful­ly pro­tect­ed in a tube or enve­lope dur­ing ship­ment. Notably, the entire pro­duc­tion process is end-to-end car­bon neu­tral. Big thank you to Elliot Moody and his team!

www​.the​-bran​di​den​ti​ty​.com/​store

Identity and pro­gram with timetable and art route book­let for Konvooi 2022. Konvooi is an annu­al mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary music and arts fes­ti­val. Located close to youth cul­ture cen­tre Het Entrepôt in Bruges. It pro­vides young artists/​collectives a tra­jec­to­ry, a bud­get and the respon­si­bil­i­ty to co-curate the fes­ti­val. For the iden­ti­ty of Konvooi we select­ed a sten­cil type­face and start­ed to deform these let­ters into almost unread­able shapes. We liked the idea that this defor­ma­tion looked like wet ink drip­ping from a wall. The com­po­si­tion of these let­ters visu­al­ize a con­voy. A shape or group of vehi­cles, nor­mal­ly used in mil­i­tary strate­gies, to ben­e­fit a defen­sive pur­pose. This project was made togeth­er with graph­ic design­er Otis Verhoeven and Lennart Van den Bossche. Typefaces we used in this pub­li­ca­tion were Mineral by Benoit Bodhuin and Helveesti by ABC Dinamo. Every year het Entrepôt is look­ing for new young and upcom­ing cura­tors for Konvooi or oth­er fes­ti­vals and events, be sure to give them a call if you are inter­est­ed in curat­ing a festival. 

For the new iden­ti­ty we made a series of play­ful illus­tra­tions relat­ed to mak­ing cof­fee, inspired by Asante Treasures and sculp­tor Alfred Basbous. Furthermore we select­ed a col­or palette to show­case the dif­fer­ence between dif­fer­ent types of coffee.

Poster and Vinyl design for the instal­la­tion and per­for­mance called ​‘Ramble Song’ by Antwerp based col­lec­tive BERLIN. With Ramble Song, BERLIN pro­pels music — a dri­ving foun­da­tion in ear­li­er work — and the cin­e­mat­ic into the fore­ground. A poet­ic ram­ble full of beau­ty but also dis­ap­point­ment unrav­els in a series of tableaux. Ramble Song mean­ders between melan­choly and black humour, inspired by the fig­ure of the drifter ­— the nomad who cul­ti­vates a form of inde­ci­sive­ness and who lurks in each of us. Onstage there is a the­atri­cal instal­la­tion. This organ­ism in sleep mode, with some­thing that resem­bles a con­tin­u­ous­ly audi­ble and vis­i­ble res­pi­ra­tion, is ani­mat­ed through live music and footage. The sound­track is wide-rang­ing, fea­tur­ing echoes of new-clas­si­cal music but also ener­getic krautrock and a diver­si­ty of synth-dri­ven sound­scapes. The dai­ly noise between our ears here gives way to a musi­cal uni­verse that gets crys­tal­lized in images — and vice ver­sa. More infor­ma­tion on www​.berlin​ber​lin​.be

Kortrijk Art repre­sents more than 20 orga­ni­za­ti­ons (see the tags on this post), pri­va­te and pub­lic, that pro­gram and show visu­al arts in Kort­rijk. More info on their new web­site www​.kor​trijkartweek​end​.be

Branding and iden­ti­ty for Jowa in Jakarta. Jowa is a fusion kitchen BBQ restau­rant in Jakarta, Indonesia. We want­ed to cre­ate a unique visu­al lan­guage for this upcom­ing restau­rant in the sub­urbs of the vivid city. So we start­ed think­ing of a way to visu­al­ize the coals of a bbq with the way ingre­di­ents are han­dled by a chef in a kitchen. We start­ed draw­ing these burned-out abstract forms and start­ed cut­ting straight aggres­sive lines into them. Just like a very sharp knife would to do a toma­to or a piece of beef. The out­come were these abstract fig­ures that worked per­fect­ly in the set­ting of the restau­rant. Inside these rudi­men­tal forms we select­ed a classy type­writer type­face to clash both ele­ments. Together with the client we also pro­duced an approach on food pho­tog­ra­phy and their social media atti­tude. Making sure this abstract iden­ti­ty was com­bined with very moody and straight-for­ward pho­tog­ra­phy of their dish­es and inte­ri­or. Website made togeth­er with graph­ic design­er and web­de­vel­op­er Mathieu Serruys and intern Ibert Pauwels. 

For an inter­view Corbin Mahieu did called ​“The Waiting Room”, we cre­at­ed a col­lab­o­ra­tion poster to pro­mote the new online release. Contact us if you are inter­est­ed in buy­ing one. (50 prints, signed, 382×594, off­set, Silver & Black, 20 euro + ship­ping (8−14 euro) (Depending on the coun­try) Contact: info@​corbinmahieu.​be

WAITING ROOM is an inter­view series that col­lects, doc­u­ments, and show­cas­es the life sto­ries and day-to-day lives of artists and design­ers. It is influ­enced by the con­trast between the way artists and design­ers talk about their cre­ative work in their respec­tive fields and how it is per­ceived by the gen­er­al pub­lic. Curated by PUBLIC UNPUBLIC The All Night Workers Division. Read the full inter­view here www.thewaitingroom.watch

We were asked to design the new web­site of respect­ed Belgian archi­tects Robbrecht & Daem. The web­site fol­lows a very strict grid and plays with­in the lim­i­ta­tions of these self-made choic­es. Following Robbrecht en Daem’s unique count­ing sys­tem called ​“Louie” (Named after the American archi­tect Louis Kahn) the web­site only uses lines and one weight and height of a grotesk type­face to make a log­ic view­ing sys­tem. Referring to archi­tec­tur­al plans or sketch­es and the way a build­ing is based on lay­er­ing the cor­rect mate­ri­als. We hope you get lost and are chal­lenged by the uncon­ven­tion­al inter­face, when going through their projects, encoun­ters and thoughts. Besides this min­i­mal­ist sys­tem, we also tried to includ­ed the use of a visu­al hori­zon. We want­ed this con­cept to be the start­ing point of the home­page. We hope view­ers expe­ri­ence a vir­tu­al land­scape of build­ings or projects going from left to right. Their unique approach on design need­ed to have a unique dig­i­tal out­come. Besides this port­fo­lio web­site we also helped to to cre­ate a per­son­al dig­i­tal data­base and made sure their newslet­ters are made auto­mat­i­cal­ly. Project togeth­er with web devel­op­er Rein van Oyen. Visit the web­site www​.rob​brech​t​en​daem​.com

In 2022 we designed the new iden­ti­ty for Funke. We made an easy-to-use approach for the dai­ly face­book event­ban­ners, social media slides and sto­ries. Funke is a bar, art space and club in the cen­ter of Ghent. Every month the iden­ti­ty has anoth­er col­or con­nect­ed to the sea­sons. Together with the peo­ple behind Funke and the com­mu­ni­ca­tion team we are look­ing for oth­er improve­ments on the already exist­ing approach for the fol­low­ing years.