Darling
design for Jonathan Self
144 pages
hardcover, edition of 500 (linnen, embossed foil)
softcover, edition of 1000 (otabind, silkscreen)
including postcard & insert
14,8 x 21 cm
published by Virgule Press
January 2025
de FactorY – WIP
An unusual identity, an identity in progress, an identity that only offers a framework and is co-created / adapted / transformed by its participants from atelier de FactorY.
Reader
De Collectieve Collectie 2019-2024 Reader, 2024
design for Kristof Van Gestel
400 pages
unbound, punch holes
17 x 21 cm
limited edition of 200
selfpublished, to be used in workshops on participatory art & art education
September 2024
you give it a blow and it’s gone
Graphic design for ‘you give it a blow and it’s gone’, a series of performances created by Gwendolyn Lootens & Gawan Fagard.
On the occasion of De langste Dag, organised by Kunstencentrum KAAP & Mu.Zee.
NAPOLI
design for Vincen Beeckman
104 pages
soft cover, embossed
14,2 x 21 cm
limited edition of 400
selfpublished by Vincen Beeckman
poetry by Chiara Vitiello
April 2024
Leaflets
Leaflets for educational purposes, designed for Kristof Van Gestel.
Passe-Vite
‘Passe-Vite’, the fourth booklet for the poetry pharmacy. This time an edition on food and the tradition of passing on recipes.
Font used: Faune, Alice Savoie/Cnap, via fontbrief
Migrating Heritage
Book design for Sofie Verclyte.
You can purchase the book here.
The Girl Who Crossed the River with a Tablecloth
Book design and research how to design an archive, for Lara Bongard.
You can purchase the book here.
Beautiful Eccentrics
Set of 9 publications for Pablo Helguera & KIOSK.
You can purchase the book here.
De Collectieve Collectie 6
Design for De Collectieve Collectie. Images and concept by Kristof Van Gestel. Design for 6’56”.
Lien Anckaert publication
Publication for Lien Anckaert, KIOSK & Celbeton Dendermonde.
ropemasks (and gloves)
Book design + interview for Bertjan Pot. Published by Art Paper Editions.
You can purchase the book here.
De Collectieve Collectie 4, 5
Design for De Collectieve Collectie. Images and concept by Kristof Van Gestel. Design for 6’56”.
What is a good world?
Book design for Liza Voetman. “What is a good world? Internationalisation in a post-Covid society”.
You can purchase the book here.
Folk Costumes, Indo-Pacific Air
Book design for Urtzi Grau & Guillermo Fernández-Abascal. Published by Art Paper Editions.
You can purchase the book here.
Moving Through the Space of the Picture and the Page
Book design for Stefan Vanthuyne. Published by Art Paper Editions.
You can purchase the book here.
Distant Intimacy
Book design for Marie Déhé. Published by Art Paper Editions.
You can purchase the book here.
Buitenland
Stories and poems for an art route in the woods.
Design and concept: Eva van Bemmelen / een museum voor jezelf
30 & 30
Invitation for two wedding anniversaries. 30 years is pearls!
an in-between space with pale purple edges …
Poetic essay for Manon Jeuken.
Hidden Istanbul
Book design for Françoise Caraco, in close collaboration with mille pages. Published by Art Paper Editions.
You can purchase the book here.
The Letters Project
Design of templates for ‘The Letters Project’, commissioned by KIOSK and ‘Ghent, playing field of the visual arts (1957 – 1987)’.
More information about the project can be found here.
Birds of a Feather
Book design in close collaboration with Vincen Beeckman & Colin Pantall for OpStap, a group-based program for people with drug addictions and people in recovery. Published by Art Paper Editions.
You can purchase the book here.
het SPRKJS-boek
A booklet and a series of postcards for a poetry pharmacy, this time Christmas edition!
Font used: Faune, Alice Savoie/Cnap, via fontbrief
Scenography for de collectieve collectie
Scenography & print for De Collectieve Collectie by Kristof Van Gestel, hosted at Extra City, Antwerp.
Pictures by We Document Art.
Naître aux mondes
Design for Naître aux mondes
7 booklets for 7 Belgian photographers taking part in the photography festival ‘Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles’.
In collaboration with KIOSK, Ghent & mòsso, Brussels.
Photographers: Valerio Alvarez, Maroussia Prignot, Chrystel Mukeba, Rami Hara, Brahim Tall, Helene Amouzou, Muhiba Botan & Patrick Wokmeni.
Het Verloren Woordenboek
A booklet and a series of postcards for a poetry pharmacy.
Texts by Pascale Van den Abeele, Lien Van Leemput, Elise Erzeel,
Amarant Plas, Lucie Van Kerckhove,
Merel Scharff, Mieke De Smet & Rudy Van der Stuyft.
Font used: Faune, Alice Savoie/Cnap, via fontbrief
Het land tussen twee waters
Book design, editing & text editing for Els Dierick.
Images and concept by Els Dierick.
KIOSK
Visual Identity for KIOSK
Playfulness, ‘odd’ typefaces, a strict grid and a touch of colour form the basis for this identity.
Tegen Het Vergeten
Memoires of my grandfather.
A book about taking time, about autumn and spring, memories and future thoughts, passions and fascinations, small fears, about beautiful words but most of all: about love.
Contact me if you would like to receive a copy.
Sticky Notes
Excerpts from my sticky notebooks.
ZINE – 80
A Zine: capturing the party of
a lifetime, 80th anniversary.
Applesauce
Applesauce is a collection of texts and stories describing a variety of everyday situations.
The reader is invited to take
a walk through a trajectory of everyday misunderstandings, observations, conversations, embarrassments, thoughts,
habits, doubts, movements, dreams… in order to discover
the absurd, the dramatic and
surreal side of the everyday.
Applesauce is a also in use as
a script book for other projects.
Acts
Series of 8 short movies that all contemplate on similar states of
our everyday being.
States of being stuck, of doing nothing, of wanting but not being able to, of trying but failing, of waiting for something that we do not know will ever come,…
All Acts are based upon scripts that are described in Applesauce.
Moving Sessions
Compilation of 6 Moving Sessions where performers were asked to move according to spoken text.
These texts described physical
as well as mental ‘movements’ in everyday life. Each Moving Session the setting and thus atmosphere changed.
All Moving Sessions are based upon scripts that are described in Applesauce.
The Storybox
A workshop that is constructed to practice and explore various ways
of storytelling and -making.
The Storybox workshop is based upon scripts that are described in Applesauce. (to be continued)
JA
50 x ‘YES’
Invitation for a golden 50th
wedding anniversary.
In Conversation About
Communication campaign for
the Graduation Show of the Sandberg Design Department.
In collaboration with Agata Jaworska, Ruben Baart, Roos Groothuizen & Anan Striker.
Breaking:
A series of posters questioning
a variety of subjects that we are confronted with on a daily basis.
The Notebooks
An attempt of archiving my notebooks into a notebook.
Silence
Some Place. Some People.
Some Situation. Silence.
Language Games
[A Story] Paralinguistics: aspects of spoken communication that do not involve words. These may add emphasis or shades of meaning to what people say.
[A Game] The ant crawls as slowly as possible to the piece of sugar.
[BEEP] What do you hear? What do
you think you hear? Manipulation and interpretation in speech.
[POETOBA] Sometimes translation gets lost.
Movement(s) Contruction
Movement(s) Construction are two performances (short movies) with 4 performers. They all perform actions that are scripted and being read out loud. In this way, they build a scene, an image, a stage,… before knowing in advance how it will look like.
Instructions
Instructions about the contours
of everyday reality. Scripts about different kinds of conversations. Templates to experiment with our communication. Questions about what our language can (not) do.
Games to challenge our everyday communication.
A Religion, La Mafia
A fictional identity for the Italian
Mafia. But how to design a secret
and hidden identity? How to design
an identity if nothing can be visual?
The answer is an identity that is
based on verbal communication
and gestures.
A chain of Italian restaurants
serves as cover-up. Members of
the Mafia communicate based on
the act of speaking, eating and of
ordering food. The menu serves
as the identity manual.
December
A contribution for a calendar. December is the month where
we make resolutions and start postponing them. Only Sunday, nothing has to be planned.
Adobe & Politics
A publication about Peruvian adobe architecture in combination with
the country’s political propaganda system. The adobe walls become
a medium to convey the political messages. A wall as a poster.
Extensions of this publication are handmade adobe bricks and a series of reinterpreted posters.
Question Catalogue
What is it that my father has with his pressure washer?
How to put a knife in my throat without dying?
What is it that makes boobies
so attractive?
How do fish sleep?
An infinite amount of questions
that fill my head on a daily basis. This Question Catalogue consists of
a questions publication and a (fake) answers publication.
From Hero to Zero
A zine that deals with the rise and
the bankruptcy of the Belgian Airline Company Sabena.
The zine holds two covers, one for each part. It can be flipped through in two ways. In the middle of the zine Hero and Zero meet in a centerfold.
