Philippe Debongnie
Philippe DebongnieI am a Belgian illustrator. I paint, draw, print and Photoshop images. I love working with different mediums, tools and shapes. I also love portraits. I find the human figure to be so full of everything, I could draw faces for the rest of my life. The way people think, behave, dress, talk, sing and all they do inspire me a lot and that really makes me want to portray them. Most of the time, Photoshop is the place where my images come together. I draw, paint, doodle, sketch and paste it all together in Photoshop trying to keep a handmade look but also to bring more to it by digitally retouching it. The feeling I want to convey with my images is something like:”great, he drew that, well done, but how did he get that look? How does that work?” Handmade yet slightly disturbing in the end.
I have three sisters, a beautiful wife, two young children and no pets. I find humans much more interesting and enough to look after. I was born in Belgium and I now live in Brussels. Traveled a lot. Held numerous jobs and finally settled on teaching. I teach at Saint-Luc in Brussels. When I do not teach, I draw and paint or I run the blog: jazzanddraw.com.
615, chaussée de Louvain Brussels 1030 Belgium
Fondé en 2015 par Aliénor de Vassal et Vincent Moisan, le studio de design graphique Alvin vous accompagne dans la création de votre identité visuelle et dans l’élaboration de votre stratégie de communication. Que vous soyez une jeune PME ou une institution publique nous pouvons également vous apporter notre aide pour le design et le développement de votre site web. Vous avez un projet ? N’hésitez pas à nous contacter. 🙂
Rue de la Glacière, 21 Bruxelles 1060 Belgium
Speculoos is a collective production centre founded by the typographers-graphic designers Alexia de Visscher and Pierre Huyghebaert, who work mostly in the cultural, institutional and associative milieux. Speculoos became a private limited liability company in 2000. This kind of organisation provides its two founders with a number of pedagogical mandates. While Speculoos’s structure is commercial in nature, its work is not merchandise; rather, it seeks to produce meaning.Speculoos focuses its attention on and expends much of its energy in the following fields: publishing and books in general; architecture and urban planning; contemporary art (visual and scenic); and cinema.Speculoos brings together and masters these related fields by bringing various skills and specialisations to its projects: general communication (print and web), cartography, stage design, design, schematic representation and visualisation of data, software development and the creation of original typographical fonts.As a platform, Speculoos is made up of an abundant network of collaborators and skills.We might attempt to list the network of current collaborators as follows:
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From: Pierre Huyghebaert <pierre@speculoos.com>
Pierre Huyghebaert (1969) – Spent a preparatory year at St Luc and four years studying visual communication at ERG. Greatly aroused by the contemporary art he was exposed to there, he plunged into a variety of concurrent professional experiences, including animated film and typography with the protolabel Hammerfonts. Founded the Mind The Gap agency in Bayreuth in 1993 and then joined the management team of the production company De Visu. In 1996 he met the graphic novel author Vincent Fortemps, the publisher Fremok (known as Fréon at the time), with whom he formed a creative partnership working mainly in the Belgian cultural milieu. They collaborated on numerous projects, characterised more by a shared conceptual approach and an interest in the ready-made than in a well-defined style. Founded the non-profit organisation
Normal and, in 2000, Speculoos. Since 2003 he has been a teaching assistant and latterly an instructor of digital art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels (La Cambre). Since 2006 he has been a member of the nascent collective Open Source Publishing, co-founder of the diffuse initiative Towards; is working on a project of subjective and collective cartography taking Brussels as its nodal point; and is a member of the alliance of contemporary artists Potential Estate, designing residential and narrative spaces around questions of borders and identity. Since 2011 he has been using freeware to try to re-learn from the ground up his own artistic practice and how to collaborate in new ways while developing the project Co-position in the Libre Graphic Research Unit.
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From: Alexia de Visscher <alexia@speculoos.com>
Alexia de Visscher (1975) – A graphic designer and typographer and a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels (La Cambre), Alexia de Visscher has been working with Pierre Huyghebaert since 1998. Since 2000 they have been in charge of the organisation they founded together, Speculoos.
Since September 2007 she has devoted herself more specifically to the book department—Speculoosbook—dedicated to the book in general, to the graphic design of books and to explorations of evolving book forms. Speculoosbook works closely with publishers, authors and artists on various book structures and explores the new practices, uses and processes shaping the book. Speculoosbook also participates in organising events around books (awards, conferences, public talks, exhibitions, etc.).
Alongside her work with Speculoos, which occupies most of her time, Alexia held a teaching assistant position for seven years in the typography program of La Cambre and has contributed actively to two projects: the publishing firm Lustre, with Olivier Spinewine, whose publications include artists’ books (Christophe Terlinden, Myriam Hornard, Benoît Platéus, etc.) and the artists
collective Blackbookblack with Olivier Deprez and Miles O’Shea. Alexia has also been studying bookbinding for the past two years.Alexia’s graphic design is based on the history of the book, typesetting and graphic design from olden times to the present day. Before beginning work on a project she considers it from a theoretical perspective and occasionally has the time to set the fruits of this down on paper or to participate in a conference.To conclude, Alexia is a lover of books and libraries who plans the classification, digital archiving and sharing of the Speculoos library, a gold mine of vernacular and special books in which art and graphic design books, magazines, newspapers, textbooks, highway traffic codes and illustrated Larousse dictionaries can be found. The library: a veritable creative tool, a reference and a mirror of Speculoos’ practices.
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From: Delphine Platteeuw <delphine@speculoos.com>
Delphine Platteeuw (1980) – Studied graphic design (typography and experimental typography) at Sint Lukas, Gent. Freelance graphic designer since 2004 for Speculoos, specialising in book layout and publishing.
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From: Ludivine Loiseau <ludi@speculoos.com>
Ludivine Loiseau (1983) – A graduate of the typography program at the École Estienne in Paris, Ludi has lived and worked in Brussels since 2006. After two years working as a full-time graphic designer for Speculoos, since 2008 she has been developing parallel collaborations and projects. Member of the collective Open Source Publishing – osp.constantvzw.org. Founder of the type foundry OSP – osp.constantvzw.org/foundry. For the past year Ludi has worked as a lecturer in typography and taught an introduction to freeware at the École de Recherche Graphique. – http://www.erg.be – http://www.ludi.be +32 (0)487 54 60 75
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From: Nicolas Rome <nicolas@speculoos.com>
Nicolas Rome (1982) – Graphic designer, typographer and multimedia designer who graduated from the typography workshop of La Cambre in 2007. Winner of the Amis de La Cambre’s Coup de Coeur award that same year for the book 376 Villages. Joins creation and development in his work. Active in the graphic design centre Speculoos since late 2007. – http://www.nicolasrome.be
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From: Grégoire Vigneron <gregoire@speculoos.com>
Grégoire Vigneron (1975) – Studied photography and visual arts in Brussels, Namur and Arlon. Has recently completed training in bookbinding at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Gilles (2011) and Diderot Bruxelles (2007). Specialises in contemporary bindings and volumetric creations. – http://www.autourde.be
Also:
Pierre Marchand – Is not a programmer, cartographer, artist, or all at once. He contributes to large-scale projects such as the Scribus layout software, works on his own projects, such as managing FontMatrix fonts and, for example, Fonzie, a font production application using scans which make possible several character designs. Member of the OSP.
My Lê – le-my.com
Open source Publishing – osp.constantvzw.org
Mathieu Gabiot – Mathieu-g
Stéphanie Vilayphiou et Alexandre Leray – Stdin
Ronan Deriez – Harrystudio
Ismaël Bennani et Orfée Grandhomme – Überknackig
Harrisson – harrisson.constantvzw.org
Stéphane Degroef – Stephaneetsukrii.com
Stéphane Malandrin
Rue Van Elewyckstraat 47 Brussels 1050 Belgium
Retail Branding + E-commerce
People do not buy brands, they join brands. Therefore, it is important that brand touchpoints are aligned on all levels to create a coherent brand experience.(Including eShop – Shopify Experienced)
Graphic Design
The graphic language is key, ranging from hangtags to complete CI guidelines… Every visual execution should breathe your brand DNA so that customers can recognize your brand in the twinkling of an eye.
Photography
In the era of social media images are key. Being an enthusiastic photographer, I also translate brand IDs into lifestyle and product photography.
3D Design
Retail means shops. Shops mean displays, fixtures, planograms and tailored shop solutions for your brand, a whole design package.
Bist 187, Bus 2 Ekeren 2180 Belgium
WHO WE ARE
Production Company Image Boulevard specializes in art direction, photography and graphic design for fashion and lifestyle content. At the helm of the company is Iris Rombouts with 27 years of experience. Over those years, she has put her stamp on the Belgium media landscape with the designing of important magazines, such as ELLE magazine Belgium – Belgique, Feeling, Feeling Wonen, Gael Maison, Knack Weekend and Nina Magazine.
WHAT WE DO
Over the last eleven years, we have realised numerous productions for Image Boulevard, always starting from scratch, always ending with a fully crafted end product. Be it art direction, graphic design or fashion production with the emphasis on photography, we always insist on a close, transparent cooperation with the client.
HOW WE WORK
We are a small team that caters for your needs in close collaboration with visual storytellers, strategic brand builders, photographers and detail-obsessed designers. By joining forces, we provide you with the full range of agency services – without the steep agency prices.
PORTFOLIO
BRANDS: Apple / Bel&Bo / Bijenkorf / Biotherm / Bozar / Cartier / Caroline Biss / Chanel / Chopard / Dash / Damart / E5 / European Parliament / Fit Flop / Giorgio Armani / Hampton Bays / Hedgren / Jbc / Louis Vuitton / Messika / Nike / Pearl / Vichy / Vlam / xandres / x-line / Yves Roger
MAGAZINES: ELLE BELGIUM – BELGIQUE / Feeling / Flair / Glam*it / Knack Weekend / Kwintessens / Nina / Secret Garden / Show Off / Vogue Belgium
DIGITAL MAGAZINES: ELLE BELGIUM – BELGIQUE / Les Petits Belges / Show Off
CONTEMPORARY ART: Bozar – Palais des beaux arts bruxelles / Ludion / The Poetry of the Bee an art book by Iris Rombouts
Jan van Rijswijcklaan 213 Antwerpen 2020 Belgium
“J’ai voulu un studio de création rafraîchissant comme une brise de printemps, rassurant comme un arbre fruitier. Je l’ai voulu comme un jardin qui révèle des perspectives nouvelles, provoque l’étonnement dans un mouchoir de poche. Un jardin qui vous invite à parler, à vous raconter et dans lequel votre voix porte. Un jardin dont vous ressortiez porteur d’une nouvelle image, de nouveaux messages. Imaginés pour vous, créés sur vous.”
Very Important Pixels is a fresh brand that features iconic pixel portraits on fashionable tops and sweaters. Inspired by 80s video games, Belgian designer Kristof Saelen has developed an original and unique style in which he handcrafts his works pixel by pixel
Very Important Pixels™ is a series of illustrations inspired by icons from the past and present. Each pixel portrait has been manually crafted starting from a blank canvas.
A selected collection of works was featured on apparel and other fashionable merchandise and got picked up by world-renowned boutiques such as Kitson (LA), Patricia Field (NYC), Colette (Paris), Spectrum (Milan), Venturer (Tokyo) and many more. Online prominent mentions and interviews include features on Wired, El País (Spain), My Modern Met and numerous blogs and papers. T-shirts and merch are still available online.
Visit our Rarible collection to find limited edition collectibles, hosted on the Ethereum blockchain in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Each purchased artwork automatically registers the buyer as a certified owner and unlocks secret features such as exclusive access to source files and unpublished artwork versions.
Cécile Barraud de Lagerie
Cécile Barraud de LagerieCécile Barraud de Lagerie.
Left-handed & short-sighted. (。 ・ v ・ 。)ノ
I am from Normandy, I studied in Paris and graduated in textile design from école Duperré and les Arts Déco. I live and work in Brussels since 2009.
FREELANCE textile designer
– textiles – weaving – trends – prints – colors – illustration –
I am specialized in colors, prints and weaving for the textile and fashion industries.
I work for Italian trends office Alberto & Roy since 2010 as colorist, print designer and trendspotter. I collaborate with trends office Nelly Rodi for their print books. I also work as color designer for a belgian wall covering brand. I do prints and patterns for fashion, beachwear and home decor. I am also proudly collaborating with a French jacquard weaving factory.
And because i like to share about colors, textile and creativity, I also do courses and workshop.
So, yes, i am a multifaceted designer !
And I’m available for commissions and collaborations so let’s talk together !
Others projects :
In Brussels, I am part of the collective “Cuistax” and “la limite” which are editing risoprinting fanzines.
With the landscaper Anne-Lise Monnet, I ran the project HASHTAG Prairie, about biodiversity and public space and we won the Jury Price of Lyon City Design.
Since 2015, I am also part of SEEDS Brussels, a collective exploring the connexions between people and plants… We do plantswaps in Brussels, Paris and Milano and creative workshops for kids and adults.
Géraldine Taymans
Géraldine TaymansMy Profile
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
07/2016 > Today
Co-founder and manager of La Guinguette du Parc de Forest. Co-founder of Act for Transition (event agency).
Skills : Project manager, team manager, cultural programmer, communication, graphic designer
01/2014 > Today
Freelance Senior Graphic Designer / Smart Activity
Clients : La Guinguette du Parc de Forest, European Commission (DEVCO), Docks Bruxsel, MRBC – Commune de Forest, Bruxelles Mobilté AED, SPF Environnement, Feder, Dolfin, ONU, Permafungi, Les Inséparables, Mammouth, Maison éco de Saint-Gilles, Saint-Aulaye, …
Agencies : Global Concept Consulting, V.O. Communication, Purebrand by Bidule, 22.10 Graphic Design
08/2013 > 12/2013
Training in Centre Cepegra
Masters in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign / CS6
12/2012 > 04/2013
Freelance Graphic Designer / SPRL Purebrand by Bidule
Visual communication agency
Visual identities, brochures, catalogs,…
Clients : AOSR, Rova, DRA Group
08/2009 > 11/2012
Graphic Designer / SPRL Bidule
Visual communication agency
Visual identities, brochures, packaging, catalogs,…
Clients : Dolfin, JPMorgan, EDF Luminus, Codic
10/2008 – 05/2009
Independent Graphic Designer & Administrator / SCRL Alliance for Design
Society of Graphic Design & Architecture
Visual identities of urban projects
Clients : Tour & Taxis, Piaseczno
03/2008 > 10/2008
Graphic Designer / SA Bird’s Eye View
Society & development council property projects
Communication planning projects
Clients : Tour & Taxis, Les Portes de Gascogne, La Cloche d’or
10/2007 > 12/2007
Intern Graphic Designer / Studio Goffin
Visual communication agency
Study logo, greeting card, layout
Clients : Le chalet de la forêt, Danone
Since 01/2008
Freelance Graphic Designer
Magazine, flyers, brochures, logo, business card, announcements, wishes
Clients : Les Inséparables, Le Botanique, Yummy Junk Food Magazine, Yokosound, La Maison des Journalistes de Bruxelles, AJP, Permafungi, ONU, Mammouth, EcoHuis St-Gilles, …
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ACCREDITOR, EXHIBITIONS, CONTESTS, ASSOCIATIONS
08/2008
Member of the “Rencontres Internationales de Lure”
Activity center graphic design & typography (delure.org)
06/2009
Evaluation of third year students – Section Graphic Design
École Supérieure des Arts de l’Image “Le 75”
11/2007 > 04/2008
10th International Triennial of political posters at Mundanéum
Exhibition poster against discrimination of women in our society
01/2007 > 02/2007
Contest GAIA global action in the interest of animals
Poster against the use of fur
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COURSES
08/2013 > 12/2013
Training in Centre Competence Cepegra
Master in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign / CS6
2004 > 2007
École Supérieure des Arts de l’Image “Le 75”
Section Graphic Design
Graduated with highest distinction
2001 > 2004
École Supérieure des Arts “Institut Saint-Luc”
Section Interior Design
Graduated in fine arts, visual and space
2000 > 2001
One year abroad : USA, Florida
Arnold high school – Graduated in June 2001
1994 > 2000
Collège Don-Bosco – General diploma secondary
Graduated in June 2000
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COMPUTER PROGRAMS UTILISED
Apple Mac OS x
Adobe Creative Cloud : Illustrator – Photoshop – Indesign – Acrobat
Suite Microsoft Office
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LANGUAGE SKILLS
French : mother tongue
English : spoken and written fluently
Dutch : academic knowledge
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INTERESTS
Graphic Design / Typography / Interior design / Architecture / Scenography / Urbanism / Fashion / Media / Cinema / Music / Travel
Sarah Corynen
Sarah Corynen°1970, Belgium
I am a Belgian designer and artist, originally educated in fashion design (Royal Academy Antwerp). For many years I have been employed in the fashion industry and related fields. Gradually I started focusing more on the graphic and experimental side of my work and at the same time I limited my fashionwork to the knitwear medium.
A few years ago I started a ‘made to order’ knitwear collection, recently available at the Comme des Garçons store “Trading Museum” in Tokyo, Japan. In addition to the knitwear I make drawings, graphic artworks and objects using different media such as black indian ink, colored markers, cardboard, b and w photocopy, acrylic colors, etc. In the past years I have developed a body of work in which applied and autonomous art coexist. I mainly find inspiration in (conflicting) daily life situations. In all my work I try to maintain a graphical language that is bold, simple, brute, witty and straightforward .
My goal for the near future is to further develop this graphic style and aesthetic in self-initiated or commissioned projects (surface pattern design, editorial illustration, artprojects, limited editions, graphic novels…). I welcome the opportunity to discuss potential collaborations or assignments with companies who feel they are a good fit for my style and aesthetic
AUGUST NOBELSSTRAAT 9 SINT NIKLAAS 9100 Belgium