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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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Platform for Belgian Graphic Design: Website launch

2025

Cursive, a graphic design and visual cultures gathering

2025

An Eye for Graphic Design

2024

Something missing? Promote your event with BINGO

2023

Booklet ‘Graphic Design Museum Gent’

2023

Also happening in Belgium

27.10.2025 — 28.06.2026

(exhibition)

RED AND GREEN AND BLUE MORE OR LESS Works and documents of Lawrence Weiner

› Herbert Foundation

26.05.2026 — 27.05.2026

(research seminar)

Without a center, with Many – Designing across Diasporas, Languages & Times

› different locations in Brussels