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

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.

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

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.

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 for educational purposes, designed for Kristof Van Gestel.

‘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

Book design for Sofie Verclyte.

You can purchase the book here.

Book design and research how to design an archive, for Lara Bongard.

You can purchase the book here.

Book design for Hanne Hagenaars.

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Set of 9 publications for Pablo Helguera & KIOSK.

You can purchase the book here.

Design for De Collectieve Collectie. Images and concept by Kristof Van Gestel. Design for 6’56”.

Publication for Lien Anckaert, KIOSK & Celbeton Dendermonde.

Book design + interview for Bertjan Pot. Published by Art Paper Editions.

You can purchase the book here.

Design for De Collectieve Collectie. Images and concept by Kristof Van Gestel. Design for 6’56”.

Book design for Liza Voetman. “What is a good world? Internationalisation in a post-Covid society”.

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Book design for Urtzi Grau & Guillermo Fernández-Abascal. Published by Art Paper Editions.

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Book design for Stefan Vanthuyne. Published by Art Paper Editions.

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Book design for Marie Déhé. Published by Art Paper Editions.

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Stories and poems for an art route in the woods.

Design and concept: Eva van Bemmelen / een museum voor jezelf

Invitation for two wedding anniversaries. 30 years is pearls!

Poetic essay for Manon Jeuken.

Book design for Françoise Caraco, in close collaboration with mille pages. Published by Art Paper Editions.

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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.

Book design for Zsofia Kollar. Published by Art Paper Editions.

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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.

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A booklet and a series of postcards for a poetry pharmacy, this time Christmas edition!

Font used: Faune, Alice Savoie/Cnap, via fontbrief

Scenography & print for De Collectieve Collectie by Kristof Van Gestel, hosted at Extra City, Antwerp.

Pictures by We Document Art.

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.

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

Book design, editing & text editing for Els Dierick.

Images and concept by Els Dierick.

Visual Identity for KIOSK

Playfulness, ‘odd’ typefaces, a strict grid and a touch of colour form the basis for this identity.

Book design for APE, commissioned by Shervin Sheikh Rezaei.

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Book design for APE, commissioned by Maroussia Prignot & Valerio Alvarez.

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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.

Book design for APE, commissioned by Bauke Lievens, Quintijn Ketels, Sebastian Kann & Vincent Focquet (eds.).

You can purchase the book here.

Book design for APE, commissioned by Bie Michels.

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A collection of 6 PAULS, all in a different jacket. Short stories for Tubelight Magazine.

• PAUL 1
• PAUL 2
• PAUL 3
• PAUL 4
• PAUL 5
• PAUL 6

Excerpts from my sticky notebooks.

• Brancusi (Tubelight Magazine)
• Papier (Tubelight Magazine)
• Tik Tik Tik (Trampoline Gallery & Tubelight Magazine)
• FLIP expo (Tubelight Magazine)
• Ken Verhoeven (Trampoline Gallery)
• Vedran Kopljar (Trampoline Gallery)
• Robin Ellis Meta (Trampoline Gallery)

A Zine: capturing the party of

a lifetime, 80th anniversary.

Book design for APE, commissioned by Emma van der Put.

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Book design for 6m56s, commissioned by Renzo Martens, Anthony Downey (ed.) & Els Roelandt (associate ed.).

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Book design for APE, commissioned by Air Antwerp.

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Book design for APE, commissioned by Bart Janssen, Koen Peeters & Dirk Zoete.

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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.

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.

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.

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)

50 x ‘YES’
Invitation for a golden 50th
wedding anniversary.

Communication campaign for
the Graduation Show of the Sandberg Design Department.

    In collaboration with Agata Jaworska, Ruben Baart, Roos Groothuizen & Anan Striker.

A series of posters questioning
a variety of subjects that we are confronted with on a daily basis.

An attempt of archiving my notebooks into a notebook.

Some Place. Some People.
Some Situation. Silence.

[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) 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 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 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.

A contribution for a calendar. December is the month where
we make resolutions and start postponing them. Only Sunday, nothing has to be planned.

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.

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.

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.