Such an honour to be featured in The Forecast by Monocle, their annual focus on the currents, trends and business to watch out for in the year ahead. They did an Antwerp survey and put me in the list of 3 'Promising Designers, Flanders Style'.
Print Sale
Prints and last Almöst Summer goods for sale!
Saturday 19/12 from 13:00 till 18:00
Sunday 20/12 from 13:00 till 18:00
Talk
Wednesday 13 January 2016, I will be talking about Specht Studio, my life and work, at Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen!
Firma in Brussels
Firma is a new public space dedicated to creating and making, located right next to the Brussels Canal. They asked 10 different creatives to design a table top for the space. These are my 2 designs!
They will dedicate over 2000 m2 to shared workshops, machines, tools, storage, studios, deskspace and an onsite café. It's an affordable and flexible workspace built for independent makers, designers and small creative businesses.
Firma instagram – launching in November 2015!
Canvas TV interview
Makerspace is a brand new online concept from Canvas, a Belgian TV channel. They interview creatives in Belgium for a 1 minute movie. They visited me in my studio in Antwerp and asked some questions about my work.
Specht Proba X Restored
Brooklyn designer Alex Proba and I will be designing custom products for the Restored shop in Amsterdam and we'll take over the window display as well. Yay!
Sight Unseen Interview
My favorite online magazine Sight Unseen asked me some questions about my work. •◕‿◕•
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Tumblr-ed / Designbby
Nice to see all of these logos/photos being Tumblr-ed at http://designbby.com/
Eye On Design Interview
Specht Studio X Disconaïveté
I started working on a really fun music illustration project with Disconaïveté.
Disco Naïveté is a Belgium-based music blog that focuses on independent music, ranging from upcoming artists to established acts. It was originally founded in October 2009 on a Blogspot but moved to Tumblr on April 1st 2010, on which it’s been hosted ever since. Disco Naïveté is one of NY Times’ “Tumblr favorites” for music, Amazing Radio calls it “a trusted source for new music” and Complex Magazine lists it as one of the “100 Best Tumblrs of All Time”. The founder & editor is Jarri Van der Haegen. ♫ ♫ ♫
The Word – 21 essential addresses for pots & plants
A while ago, The Word magazine, asked me and other creatives about some of my favorite plant shop addresses in Belgium. You can read the list here.
Happy Birthday Studio Collect \ Open Day Specht Studio
This Sunday – July 12 – Open Day with Studio Collect! Facebook event here.
Exhibition – Paradise is out there – June 11 – at Picture Room NYC
'Paradise is out there' – A showcase of limited edition prints at Picture Room, New York
Thursday June 11 2015 at Picture Room – 06.00 till 08.00 PM.
Picture Room, 236 Mulberry Street, New York
Facebook event here.
Bezar Pop Up Shop
The Specht Studio popup shop at Bezar just launched today. Only shipping to US though ...
Moving!
Moving into a new workspace in Borgerhout. Soon more info ... For now, read this:
Divatex Home Fashions X Specht Studio
Divatex Home Fashions (Manhattan, New York) was founded in 1991 and became a subsidiary of the Himatsingka Group (India) in 2007. Himatsingka, a vertically integrated Home Textile giant, leads the industry in design, development, and manufacturing of Home Textile products. As a group, they operate amongst the largest capacities in the world for upholstery fabrics, drapery fabrics, and bed linen products. Divatex asked Specht Studio to collaborate with them on a small line of duvet covers and decorative pillows. As we speak they are busy with creating the prototypes to present to their retailers (Bloomingdale's and Macy's) at the end of march 2015.
Soon more news about this!
Bezar Prints
Editions for Picture Room
Picture Room (New York) asked to do an Edition for them! We will create a series of exclusive limited edition illustrations for them to show and sell in the gallery shop.
Pier Stockholm 'Do & Hope' at Gleichapel
Together with Pier Stockholm we created a small visual for his new expo 'Do & Hope' in Paris at Gleichapel.
Specht and Studio Proba
Happy to announce the collab with Alexandra Proba - Alex is a super talented designer from Lüdenscheid, Germany living in Brooklyn, New York. We’ll be working on a series of posters!
Check out her work: http://alexproba.com/
