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Affects and Emotions in Graphic Design: 
Love & Rage beyond Aesthetics

by Camille Circlude

26.07.2025

The guiding thread of this text unfolds around the idea of affect as a driving force of creation in graphic design. This personal vision of graphic design is traversed by emotions that make it political and situated — whether it be anger, love, care, or militant joy.

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Dear Anneleen,

by Eva Moulaert

11.06.2025

‘So now I come to speak. At last. I will tell you all I know. I was deceived to think I could not do this. I have the powers; I take them here. I have the right. I have the means. My words may be poor, but they will have to do.’ - Paul Griffiths, Let Me Tell You (Hastings: Reality Street, 2008), 7

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The Advantages of Being a Wallflower? Searching for Maria Sèthe at Bloemenwerf

by Apolline Malevez & Pauline Vranckx

04.06.2025

Researching the contributions of Maria Sèthe (1867-1943) to the art and career of her more famous husband, the architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957), is a charged experience. It requires negotiating expectations and hopes — both those of others and our own — as well as pushing against disciplinary boundaries.

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En écrivant, en composant. Claude Rutault et la figure de l’artiste-typographe

by Léonore Conte

04.06.2025

Cette réflexion sur le travail de Claude Rutault fait suite à un travail de résidence mené par Léonore Conte avec le designer graphique Léo Carbonnet au Centre des Livres d’artistes en 2023 et qui a donné forme à la publication de l’ouvrage Artistes typographes qui propose une exploration visuelle de cent trente-deux livres d’artistes.

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