Belgian Institute
of Graphic Design

During one afternoon, graphic designers, art historians, researchers, and writers will present their contribution to the Platform for Belgian Graphic Design at TRACKS, former trainmuseum in Brussels North Station. The event is the 14th of June, starting at 5 pm, with drinks and snacks!

These first commissioned articles will launch the online platform bringing together current and former research around graphic design in Belgium.

The event is free with reservation. The talks will take place in English.

We are very happy to welcome to following speakers:

Camille Circlude

Léonore Conte

Koen Galle

Apolline Malevez & Pauline Vranckx

Eva Moulaert

Image by Laura Simonati

Supported by de Vlaamse Overheid

In search of common ground and local puzzles? Cursive is a new gathering of graphic design and visual cultures.We highly recommend following the thread and joining this crossroads of ideas taking place in Brussels on April 11th and 12th, 2025. Get ready to come together and spark a global conversation on the topic of community. ’cause Cursive will take you by the hand, unravel into interwoven lines, to find its way through tangled nets, merging currents of crowds with no clear boundary between one character and the next. It will flow through zipped descents and steep ascents, parades of joy moving as one, tracing no clear beginning, yet expanding into festive ends.Cursive—let it run!

More information on Cursive’s website.

Joining forces together with creative studio D-E-A-L and Atelier AMB, we are very happy to present the first edition of Cursive, a graphic design and visual cultures gathering taking place in Brussels, at the Kaaistudio’s (O.L.V. van Vaakstraat 81 Rue de notre Dame du Sommeil) on the 11 and 12 April. Looking forward to see you there, and we are very enthusiastic of the program of speakers. Don’t forget to book your tickets, for one or two evenings! 

Supported by de Vlaamse Overheid & la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Sponsored by Kaaitheater and Brasserie Illegaal

What catches the eye of a graphic designer? How does the eye focus on the book and typographic details from this perspective? What does it mean to investigate as a designer? These are questions that kept the graphic design students busy while looking through Belgian avant-garde magazines.

This part is an annex to the Unpacking Tschichold’s Library exhibition. This presentation offers a contemporary and local response in which students have interpreted historical material to make it their own. The exhibited work is the result of a four-day workshop with graphic design students. Additionally, a selection of Belgian magazines is on display, such as La Cité (1919-1935) or Het Overzicht (1921-1925) from the archive of the Kunstenbibliotheek.

We promote exclusively events having a link with graphic design in and out of Belgium. Please send us a mail at [email protected] to get your event promoted on our website.

Image: The ironic full stop (⸮ or ؟) is a punctuation mark placed at the end of a sentence to indicate that it should be taken in the second degree. Specific irony marks have also been proposed, such as in the form of an open upward arrow, used by Marcellin Jobard, owner of the journal ‘Le Courier Belge’ in the 19th century, and in a form resembling a reversed question mark, proposed by French poet Alcanter de Brahm during the 19th century.

A publication about our research and past presentations on the Design Museum’s graphic histories in Ghent is available!

We settled for eight weeks in the DING vitrine of the museum, sharing and inhabiting the space with the Post Identity Project*. It is a period too short to dive deep into the museum’s graphic history, but enough time to open a selection of archive boxes and discover some snippets of its past.

This led to four temporary exhibitions and research trajectories: the evolution of Design Museum Gent’s graphic identity, the graphic designer and educator Hélène Van Coppenolle, Frida Burssens wonderful poster series and, finally, the exhibition ‘In koeien van letters: 50 years of graphic design in Flanders’.

24 pages, 19 x 25,5 cm

Price free contribution
Shipping €4 (Belgium) €8 (EU)

To order a copy, please send us a mail to

[email protected]

Designed by PIP* (then, Ran De Vos and Bruno Jacoby)
Made possible thanks to Design Museum Gent

Aline Baudet, founder of Accolade studio and teacher at La Cambre in the graphic communication department, will guide us through the exhibition ‘Brussels Queer Graphics‘ at the Design Museum Brussels, on the 24.09.23 at 14h.

From the 1950s on, LGBTQI+ communities in Brussels have used graphic design and developed a specific language. This visual language signals their presence and their commitment to a set of shared principles, identities and values. Shaped by struggle and celebration, turmoil and compromise, this tool of both resistance and resilience fosters an alternative form of collectiveness. Through the materiality, composition, typography, iteration and language used, graphic designers, both professional and amateur, identify and address their message towards specific audiences.

WHEN? 24.09.23 at 14h00

WHERE? Design Museum Brussels, Place de la Belgique 1 – 1020 Brussels

RESERVATION

To book your spot, please send a mail to [email protected] with your name and phone number.

PRICE

The guided tour is included in the entrance ticket to the museum. You can find their prices here.

The evolution of the identity of Design Museum Gent

Graphic Design
Museum Gent