Mail +32 491 504 162 +33 6 95 59 45 22 ⋰ Laure Giletti and Gregory Dapra are based in Brussels and Palermo. They are working together since 2012. They operate within the fields of graphic design and web development. They design on paper, screen and space upon long-standing collaborations. Translating complexity into appropriate formats and durable forms is their main concern. Attentive to the way images and texts sustain their own intent and impact, their approach results in a content-based production.

st-etienne.archi

Presence of the Past

The exhibition Presence of the Past is an inquiry on the way Europeans engage with the past in their everyday lives and challenges how we relate to history, not as a fixed narrative, but as a living, shifting space. The scenography by Marie Douel studio is inspired by capriccios and based on ancient stones, creating a fictional landscape blending past and present. The graphic fits into this concept, displaying the contemporary font Jungka, and Mercure, result of an inquiry into Latin epigraphy and the typographic forms associated with that discipline.

Harfenbiennale Innsbruck 3

For its third edition, the Harp Biennale Innsbruck shines a light on voices too often unheard – composers, musicians, thinkers. Early music meets contemporary works, folk songs resonate with political texts, and mystical vespers intertwine with saxophone solos. What happens when nuns speak alongside feminists?

Notes on Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep

Table concieved in relation with the movie Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan’s Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep (2022), retelling the story of Gilgamesh as a journey through time and space inspired by Sumerian cosmology and the philosophy of Russian cosmism.

At Lære at Gore

At Lære at Gøre revolves around artistic education and pedagogy. The central element is the translation of the book Ce que Laurence Rassel nous fait faire, which portrays the institutional work of the Belgian artist and curator Laurence Rassel as director of the Erg in Brussels. Around this conversation, four original Danish contributions were commissioned. The drawings of Signe Frederiksen set the pace of this publication. The fonts displayed in this book have been produced in various pedagogical contexts.

Simone Guillissen-Hoa

Designed for the first monographic exhibition of Chinese-born Belgian architect Simone Guillissen-Hoa (1916–1996), this 17-panel display unfolds a text devoted to her life, work and legacy. The graphic design refers to the layout of a page. The architect's biography, – which covers major events of the 20th century, from the beginnings of the Chinese Revolution to post-war Reconstruction, via the Resistance in occupied Belgium–, becomes one of the exhibition's central pieces.

margretkoell.com

Design and development of the website for the historical harpist Margret Koell.

Candida Höfer. Contexts. Semper Oper Dresden

In 2023, Candida Höfer photographed the Semperoper Dresden. Spaces of rehearsal, storage, performance, strolling and working in the opera house become a lens that reflects the view of the context of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in the Kupferstich-Kabinett as a place of research, collecting, archiving, exhibiting and working. The design intervention is minimal, leaving space for the photographs. The three edges of the hard cover are trimmed, revealing the red cardboard.

planlibre.eu

Web development of Plan L★★★★, a quarterly magazine produced by the Maison de l'Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées. Plan L★★★★ was founded in 2002 with the aim of disseminating architectural culture and promoting its qualities to a wide audience. Art Direction: Pierre Vanni. Design: Atelier Santos Lemarchand

ENSASE, Stranger Things S2 posters

Poster series made for a conference cycle, part of the visual identity created for the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Saint-Etienne in 2022.

mbl.archi

MBL architects is an architecture studio founded by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Benjamin Lafore, later joined by Florian Jomain. Their work explores various fields of architectural culture: constructions, publications, teaching, object design and exhibition curating. The website puts every type of practices on an equal footing. Developed as a single-page application, the archive can be explored by data entries, image entries and sorted.

Capital Image

In the Image Capital exhibition, the text does more than accompany and detail the pieces presented in the show, it goes hand in hand with them. Indeed, it is as much an exhibition of images by photographer Armin Linke as it is of texts by historian Estelle Bläschke, as well as a collection of archives. The choice of typography represents the different periods, territories and technologies found in the Image Capital project.

Mothers&Daughters

Visual identity for the agro-forestry and intergenerational project Mothers&Daughters. The logo turns upside down roots and plants, in order to change the perspective of what we usually (want to) see. Focusing on the root highlights the notions of anchorage and connections, and how the relation to the soil is so important in the project.

projets.archi

Projets is a platform for publishing architectural competitions and consultations. Projets is a factual atlas of possible architecture in the Occitanie region. Projets is an information tool developed by the Maison de l'Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées. The design follows the visual identity created by Pierre Vanni.

Angel Vergara. In the Instant

Angel Vergara’s work tests the limits of art and reality by questioning the way the contemporary image shapes the intermingled public and private spheres—as well as our own experience. Accompanying the 2023 retrospective exhibition In the Instant that the MACS is dedicating to Angel Vergara, this book reviews the career of the Belgian artist and highlights the close relationship between his painting and the cinematic medium.

Âyiné Biblioteca classica

The collection Biblioteca classica publishes literary classics. The drop caps used for the design are a reference to illuminated manuscripts. The colors of its covers vary on red, a color sensitive to light and time. The darkest hue corresponds to contemporary books, the lightest to ancient books. Having only one color range makes the collection recognizable. This project was never realised.

Luxembourg in Transition

Ten multidisciplinary teams worked for two years to develop programs to achieve decarbonization of Luxembourg and its cross-border functional area, and create a more resilient territory. The aim of this exhibition is to make this work accessible to a wide audience. The public is welcomed by five large-format points of attention illustrated by Alice Mahiant.

Tactique du rêve augmenté

The group exhibition Tactiques du rêve augmenté, considers the capacity of science-fiction, anticipation and speculation to come up with new ways of looking at reality. In the journal of the exhibition, the contributions of the different artists are treated specifically and linked by different types of silver shading. The central poster gives form to the contribution by Peggy Pierrot : a biblio-disco-filmo-graphy related to narrative speculation.

RAUM Report

A4 Report covering years 2018-2023. Strongly structured by semester and color. The pages are PDF files generated from the website using the JavaScript library Puppeteer. Randomly packed.

David Douard: 0´THEE LIL’ 0

In the monograph of David Douard, exhibition, studio and work photographs are interwoven throughout the pages with fanzines and photocopied collages, creating sensitive links. In opposition to chronological or technical classification, the flow of the book extends the artist's experiments. In the flow of images, attention to the text is drawn by the strong typographical contrast between the typeface Gab by Julie Lemoine and New age 666 by Charlotte Rhode.

Épiderme, Myriam Mihindou

Épiderme is an exhibition to be experienced intimately: an invitation to focus on the sensitive and to celebrate life in its organic and sensory dimensions, in an approach that combines sobriety and economy of means. The journal aims to capture this experience.

What Makes an Assembly?

This book offers a critical inquiry into the potential of assemblies to shape political issues. The numerous contributions are organized thematically, and their changes are indicated by title inserts. The protective dust jacket makes the book easy to handle and encourages its circulation.

ENSASE, posters

These posters are part of the visual identity created for the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Saint-Etienne. To keep the identity vibrant, posters offer different parameters with dominant colors according to the type of event.

ENSASE, visual identity

The central element of the visual identity is the BBB Herthey futural typeface. Its history is as much about engineering as it is about drawing, tools and design. This choice reflects the specificity of the school. The highly differentiated weights of this monolinear typeface create the necessary contrast for the singularity of the visual identity. Post-binary glyphs have been realized with Clara Sambot, together as part of Bye Bye Binary.

Bauakademie

At a critical time for the question of reconstruction, Bauakademie Berlin delivers conceptual perspectives for a contemporary building academy in the form of texts, architectural drawings and artists' photos. The graphic design follows the principles of the visual identity created for the Raumgestaltung und Entwerfen department.

A passion for Jorge Zalszupin

Jorge Zalszupin is one of Brazil’s most important designers. His furniture is characterized by both geometric lines and organic shapes in combination with well-defined proportions, graceful lines and classical detailing.

Schengen

No more land take. Stops sol sealing. Diversifies land use. Bypasses the question of land. Forces urban transformation. Densifies existing structure. Boosts the agro-ecological turn.

Image Capital

In the Image Capital exhibition, the text does more than accompany and detail the pieces presented in the show, it goes hand in hand with them. Indeed, it is as much an exhibition of images by photographer Armin Linke as it is of texts by historian Estelle Bläschke, as well as a collection of archives. The choice of typography represents the different periods, territories and technologies found in the Image Capital project.

image-capital.com

The online publication of the project Image Capital, by Armin Linke and Estelle Bläschke, assembles images, films, quotes, exhibition views and articles by guest authors. Framed in six chapters (memory, protection, access, imaging, mining, currency) it traces and links the past, present and future histories of photography as a storage and imaging device, employed in all sorts of industrial, scientific and cultural production.

curatorialdesign.org

Curatorial Design brings together two distinct spheres, that of curating and that of design in its wider significance, in order to define an area of mutually productive impact. ‘Curatorial’ indicates an in-between space that does not belong to any particular discipline—the practice of producing knowledge by selecting and relating what already exists in a novel way. ‘Design’, on the other hand, which derives from the Italian disegno, points to the conception of architecture that emerged with the Renaissance, when the architect became a figure autonomous from the builder, a generalist intellectual in charge of the process of construction at all scales.

Jacqueline de jong: The Ultimate Kiss

“How can one be an artist of accidents, Amsterdam, animals, billiards, cosmonauts, crime fiction, dinosaurs, Elvis, the First World War, football, gas masks, the Gulf War, a lift, madness (even when asleep), monsters, murders, (female) murderers, mutants, pinball machines, pin-ups, potatoes, race cars, refugees, sex, suicides, tanks, televisions, women and more?”

juleslagrange.com

Jules Lagrange consistently works with the left-overs and debris of a personal and collective history, consciously using obsolescent techniques, tools and material as a way to engage against certain modes of industrial production, and against an accelerated circulation of images and objects. Instead, he pays attention to the vernacularism of certain crafts and traditions and the emotions they convey.

Paraguay Press collection

This collection of essays and interviews attempts to open up a wider public to contemporary writing on art and its social, political and moral functions. For the Essais collection, Paraguay press accompany the writing, production or translation of texts that are both situated and experimental, and that seek new ways of articulating the interpretation of artworks with political questioning. This economically reasonable collection feature simple covers, instinctive variations on the design, a different work on inclusive typography each time and a sweet logo. The logo is the letter “g” from the font Agaïs by Jules Estèves because it also represents a cat, which we associate with ideal reading conditions.

Les Indices de la respiration primitive, mountaincutters

For the journal of the exhibition by the French artist duo mountaincutters, we took advantage of the large format and the fact that the artists have an analog photo archive of their productions, to reproduce parts of their works on a 1:1 scale, in order to capture the materiality and sensitivity of their work.

Contre-Vents

Contre-Vents is not a history book, but rather a book of genealogies. An extension of the exhibition Contre-Vents at the Grand Café, centre d'art contemporain de Saint-Nazaire, it traces the intersections between farmers and workers’ struggles, questions of identity, environment, and proposes a vanishing line from the collective actions to reclaim agricultural land in the 1970s to the ZAD of Notre-Dame-des-Landes. Its layout differs from the ones associated with archival books, it seeks to reactivate energies in the present.

mbl.archi

MBL architects is an architecture studio founded by Sébastien Martinez-Barat and Benjamin Lafore, later joined by Florian Jomain. Their work explores various fields of architectural culture: constructions, publications, teaching, object design and exhibition curating. The website puts every type of practices on an equal footing. Developed as a single-page application, the archive can be explored by data entries, image entries and sorted.

Saâdane Afif: Morceaux choisis

Morceaux choisis is the first reference work on Saâdane Afif's artistic practices. The publication presents 48 exhibitions or performances organized in 28 distinct sections, spanning a period of 14 years. Each of these exhibitions constitutes an individual booklet: the pages containing color reproductions of the individual works and installation views are inserted into four additional pages providing the title, description, details and captions of the exhibition. These 28 booklets form the body of the publication.

Légendes: 10 maisons particulières

Through a selection of 10 private homes, from the 1970s to the present day, Légendes builds a genealogy of what drives architecture in France today. The exhibition’s journal, also used as a poster, is set in a font reminiscent of the codes of the books in which you are the heroin.

Zwischen den Saiten

Zwischen den Saiten is an early and baroque harp festival. The communication is intended to be the opposite of the graphic codes usually used for harp-related communication.

Harfenlabor

Harfenlabor is a platform for critical, multidisciplinary discourse on topics related to the historical harp. The identity, composed of a mix of fonts: Jungka by Jungmyung Lee and Farandole, by Margaux Heylen and a vivid color, move away from the graphic codes usually found in classical or baroque music.

La Cambre Yearbook 2020

For the de la Cambre yearbook, an iconographic work was carried out to ensure that the book was lively and best represent the abundance of projects. To showcase the school’s many departments of the school, drop caps are displayed in 19 fonts produced in the typography department.

maximedelvaux.com

Maxime Delvaux is a Belgian architecture photographer based in Brussels. He works with different agencies in Europe. He also uses the image as a research and project tool, to deal with topics ranging from urbanism to architectural heritage in the context of exhibitions or publications. At the same time he teaches photography in Brussels and is often invited to architecture schools in Europe to give lectures and work on the relationship between photography and architecture during workshops.

archive.planlibre.eu

Architectural Journal Archive developed as a Single Page Application. Art direction: Pierre Vanni

Active Art

In this book, the 1923 manifesto ‘Active Art’ by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggers a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose. The title, but also the aim of this book is reactivated at the beginning of every contribution.

Hidden Labour Across, inter∞note 1

The exhibition aims to operate as a space for research by the means of art for engaging with contemporary issues around labour in relation to technologies. The research edition by vinit agarwal is based on Chetna Vora's film Oyoyo (1980), made in the GDR and produced by HFF Babelsberg. It questions what are the between cinema, politics, education and friendship under conditions of “international solidarity”? And is there a condition for this solidarity? The edition is to be read as it unfolds, until it becomes a poster of the movie.

Soul Mobilisation, Babi Badalov

Babi Badalov’s generous, fertile oeuvre is a concrete exploration through drawings, collages, publications, wall painting, textiles and objects of the connection between words and pictures. It delves into the ways in which the non-mastery of a language can reinvent our relationship not only to knowledge, but also to others and the wider world, through a practice of alienation, alterity and poetry. The journal's design allows displaying a variety of objects, accompanied by a baroque, cuivre text.

Raumgestaltung und Entwerfen

The design of the visual identity of the department Raumgestaltung und Entwerfen is based on DIN A10 format. It defines the structure and size of the typography. The logo is always the same size on all media. The layout is resilient because it combines system typefaces, meaning that new users of the identity do not need to install them. The communication elements like the posters can be realized quite rapidly because of the structure. Every year the main color changes.

raumgestaltung.tuwien.ac.at

Department website developed as a platform. Designed for strong durability. Structured by the concept color semester. The extended parts (documentation section, bilingual option) have been developed along the years.

Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain

Brochure presenting the different Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain. A unifying work has been made to present venues with very different identities and programmes.

Halles Perret

Brochure presenting the work of architects Pierre Hebbelinck and Hart-Berteloot on the Halle Perret. The material was organised on two different papers: images on coated paper, texts and documents on matt paper, in order to highlight their specificity. A special attention was paid to the rhythm of the publication.

Miscellaneous folies

“Monsters, ruins, temples are figures through which to reflect on contemporary architecture. Its relation to the landscape, its economy. Folies are devices through which to consider territories and situations and to examine the discipline of architecture.” The rich research of the curators is presented in newspaper that the public can take away with them. Significant follies are printed in large format on fabric.

Operational Aesthetics

In the exhibition Operational Aesthetics, the central space looks back at 25 years of ‘urban renewal’ in Brussels from a sociological point of view. Using a detailed exploration of 14 significant situations which mark a beginning or an end, a transformation or a repetition in the life cycle of the Neighbourhood Contracts policy. Four peripheral pieces reflect on the history and the future of cities through the use of a broad historical and geographical perspective.

Phenotypes/Limited Forms

This publication acts as an extension of the interactive exhibition Phenotypes/Limited Forms, where visitors could select and print a sequence of pictures from Armin Linke’s archive. The book analyzes the 30.000 sequences that have been produced. Different analysis of the images (sequence, color similarity, clusters of images and title probability) help understand the connection between the photographs, the number of times they were chosen by an individual visitor and how the visitors named their personal selection of images.

(Re)compose the city – Unbuilt Brussels #2

(re)compose the city considers the period of reflection on the North-Midi Junction, from 1836 to 1952, as a laboratory for urban planning research to transform Brussels into the capital of Belgium. These original documents come from the CIVA archives.

Hamung’s Two Orphans, Doreen Mende

This research display by Doreen Mende, was carried out as part of the Bahaus Imaginista exhibition programme. It presents elements of the reconstruction of the North Korean industrial town of Hamhung, was part of a project of architectural internationalism undertaken by the GDR between 1955 and 1962. GDR architect Konrad Püschel, who studied at the Bauhaus from 1926 to 1930 and was part of the first group of students in Dessau, led the first construction construction phase in Hamhung – between 1955 and 1959 – as ‘city building brigadier’. The drawings made by Aarti Sunder are combined with archive material and quotes.

CCC Research Master, HEAD—Genève

Website for the CCC Research Master and PhD forum displaying a color-coded system for the navigation.

Rage

‘How to talk about Acid Techno & how to make it? Rave parties. TB-303. Disorder. Life and death instinct. Secret societies. Chaos. Childhood. Noise. Blast. Love. ...“nothing but pure joy”’.

Image Capital

In the Image Capital exhibition, the text does more than accompany and detail the pieces presented in the show, it goes hand in hand with them. Indeed, it is as much an exhibition of images by photographer Armin Linke as it is of texts by historian Estelle Bläschke, as well as a collection of archives. The choice of typography represents the different periods, territories and technologies found in the Image Capital project.

Guy de Cointet. The Complete Plays/Théâtre Complet

First publication to gather all theatrical works by artist Guy de Cointet, the book presents 25 plays in chronological order, each published with an explanatory apparatus and numerous documents. The editorial structure is the one of an anthology. While browsing the book, the plays’ titles stand out from the text and images stream, they refer to some of the artist’s set design. In Guy de Cointet’s plays, narration and visual should be read together and, in order to comprehend the scripts, it is essential to understand the shape of the stage props and their manipulation by the performer. Therefore, in the book, pictograms of the accessories stand alongside the text. The stamped initials on the cover refer to Cointet stage design. Reading the book almost becomes a theatrical gesture.

Contre-Cultures 1969-1989 L’Esprit Français

The exhibition Countercultures 1969-1989. L’Esprit français is an extensive documentation and analysis of two decades of post-68 critical, irreverent, dissenting, realms of creation in France. Several thematic nods are explored through an assembly of hundreds of artworks, documents, newspapers, flyers, posters, films and television shows uncovered from different archives. In each section, excerpts of a vast image archive, numerous essays and short sidelines are intertwined. The publication had to be both an exhibition catalogue and text-based reader. Therefore, it had to result in a substantial yet portable volume which could handle an extensive collection of textual and visual material.

Thinking under Turbulence

Thinking under Turbulence is conceived as a working-journal, as print- and online-version, in eleven sequences and one sequel. It brings together voices of closed seminars and public moments of one year Thinking under Turbulence: Geneva Colloquium which framed the 2015/16 transition of the CCC Research-Based Master Programme of the Visual Arts Department at the Haute école d’art et de design, HEAD – Genève.

learningforms.org

An ongoing archive of publications from studios of architecture schools. Led by Sébastien Martinez-Barat with Grégory Dapra, Laure Giletti, Benjamin Lafore, Cédric Libert. Learning Forms is a project by la Maison de l’Architecture Occitanie—Pyrénées.

vendredivendredi.fr

Visual identity and website for a film distribution company.

Kairos Time

The exhibition presents twelve artists who have graduated from the Master of Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute. The pages of the catalogue are divided in two : the upper part presents a photographic documentation of the exhibition, the lower part presents a series of conversations between the artists and their tutors.

Écoles, Normes, Supernormal – Unité de Production

Publication for the Unité de Production workshop at the La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture. Three quarters, three themes (Schools, Norms, Supernormal) are presented.

Aube, Clément Rodzielski

Aube, by French artist Clément Rodzielski, is an unconventional publication: the book was conceived as a work of its own, from a luxurious range of editorial operations – from cutting to digital process, collage and scan to drawing – on images of the artist's past works. Aube thus reconsiders the legacy of the artists' book and the livre de peintre, and foregrounds the importance of publishing and writing as models for the practice of art.

martinezbaratlafore.com

Website for architects Martinez Barat Lafore. Conceived as a single page application, it displays full screen images and factual informations.

entrer : cinq architectures en belgique

Entrer: is an exhibition presenting five architectural projects recently built in Belgium. The curatorial intention was to convey the materiality and spatiality of a place outside its context through context through sound extracts and films. We designed five posters for the exhibition, each showing a life-size detail of one of the buildings. of one of the buildings. This gesture completes the idea of entering these architecture and experience it. The exhibition catalogue is organised into five sequences sequences, each of which offers a walk through each building. The graphic identity takes advantage of the title and its punctuation.

Interiors. Notes and Figures, catalogue

For the catalogue of Interiors. Notes and Figures, 250 elements were selected from the wide archive of photographs and information. On each page, image, text and architectural drawings are displayed in a systematic editorial structure.

Interiors. Notes and Figures, exhibition

The belgian pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia features an original study of domestic interiors in Belgium, based on a photographic survey made in 2014 throughout the country. Architectural transformations, adjustments and modifications of inhabited spaces have been observed and documented through a systematic protocol. For the Pavillon, an interpretation of the research findings is presented through a minimalist spatial and architectural intervention. In order to fit this approach, the exhibition’s graphics are made by simply cutting out single pages from the publication.

Double Bound Economies, catalogue

The design of the catalogue of the exhibition Double Bound Economies reflects the process by always presenting the source alongside the interpretation. On all the left pages of the catalogue is featured the comprehensive index of Reinhard Mende’s archive, on all the right pages is presented the content of the catalogue, the essays and the artistic contributions. The two parts, essays and artistic contributions, are bound together by a sequence of full scale photos extracted from the contact sheets.

Double Bound Economies, exhibition

The project departs from a photographic archive produced in the German Democratic Republic from 1967 to 90. The archive consists of 250,000 pictures taken by freelance photographer Reinhard Mende, who was commissioned by GDR Kombinate to document East German industrial operations. For the exhibition, artists, theorists, scholars, and former participants were invited to explore and work with the archive. The project deals with several matters, from design and photography to economical trade and socialist production.

Right to Refusal

The exhibition Right to Refusal concerns the conditions under which the articulation of refusal takes place, both in topical themes and long-standing geopolitical conflicts as well as in everyday actions and artistic production. Initially, the only clarity in the right to refusal is the rejection, or at least the rigorous questioning, of existing structures. The publication consist on one folded double page per artist. The pages are inserted into each other, creating associations between the different practices. These pages are wrapped by the invitation to the exhibition.