Belgian Institute
of Graphic Design

FOCUS ON: Marleen Deceukelier

Antwerp, 30.10.2020 — 13.11.2020

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Marleen Deceukelier

Marleen Deceukelier & Sonny van Hoecke, Drawing: Dietmar Guderian Leibniz, Newton and Displacement. Documenta IX, Kassel, 1992

During Marleen Deceukelier’s career at the S.M.A.K. Museum in Ghent, she was responsible for the graphic design of all activities organised by the museum. Among other things, Deceukelier also designed the catalogue for the famous exhibition Chambres d’Amis in 1986, as well as the poster for Documenta IX. This ninth edition of the five-yearly exhibition took place from June to September 1992 in Kassel and was curated by Jan Hoet. Marleen Deceukelier sometimes worked under the pseudonym eMDé

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Marleen Deceukelier & Sonny van Hoecke, Drawing: Dietmar Guderian Leibniz, Newton and Displacement. Documenta IX, Kassel, 1992

FOCUS ON: Anne Delcoigne

2020

We have very few information on Anne Delcoigne. It is by researching the posters conserved at AVG-Carhif, the Belgian Archives and Research Center for Women’s History, that we gained more insight into her practice as a graphic designer.  ‘Abortion, the woman decides!’ Is a poster in a series for Women's Day in 1976 which Delcoigne designed and which attracted our attention in the archives. Later on, we also found posters designed by her at the Institute for Social History in Gent (AMSAB), such as this beautiful poster for the movie ‘The War of Mummies’  from 1974.

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FOCUS ON: Jeanine Behaeghel

2020

FOCUS ON Jeanine Behaeghel

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FOCUS ON: Sophie & Sami Alouf

2020

In Belgium Sophie Alouf worked for the Museum of Fine Arts, the Design Center and the Woluwe and Westland shopping centers. Her graphic work is a collaboration with her husband, graphic designer Sami Alouf. In addition to her career as a designer, Sophie Alouf was responsible for the Graphic Design Atelier in Saint Luc Brussels and taught at La Cambre in the typography department.

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FOCUS ON: Frie Soomers

2020

FOCUS ON Frie Soomers Frie Soomers was appointed in 1974 as the graphic designer for the Antwerp jazz festival Jazz Middelheim. She succeeded designer Frans de Jonck and used his design as the basis for her new contribution. Between 1974 and 1989, the period in which Soomers worked for Jazz Middelheim, the visual identity of …

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