This is the cover for the book From Flux to Frame by Maarten Van Acker. As we speak we are still busy with the typesetting of this book. Many pages, many photographs, ... Maarten Van Acker is an urban and infrastructure architect who is also teaching at the University of Antwerp. (2014)

Antwerpen Kunstenstad and Born in Antwerp asked me to curate one evening during the Born in Antwerp festival. Friday May 20, 2016.
This is what will happen:

PART 1
Natural wine (by Roeland Fort) and food (by Yannick Vermeire) tasting from 18.30 – 20.30h \ 30 € per person \ limited capacity \ Please email reservation before 20 April 2016 at hello@stephaniespecht.com

PART 2
Musical performances (free entrance)
• Oval Angle (Geran Knol) 21.00 – 21.45h
• Coco Haram (Jonas de Houwer & Gavin Vanaelst) 22.15 – 00.00h
https://soundcloud.com/ocoaram

All happening in and around an installation designed by Nicolas Petillon. 

See you there!
Facebook Event here.
More info here.

A logo for Form Finding Lab, a research group founded by Prof. S. Adriaenssens, Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University (NJ, USA). (2011)

Thursday 13.12 — 10 Y Goûte Mes Disques — A rap concert with @princewaly @groovykeeni @venlo__ at Beursschouwburg Brussels. 2018

Poster design for lectures organized by the faculty of Design Sciences Department of University of Antwerp. Designed in 2018.

Typography for Baloji’s music video for L’Hiver Indien.
Designed in 2018.

Cover for new book ‘Designing the Future’, project sponsored by Vlaamse Overheid — initiated by Vlaams Bouwmeester, Architecture Workroom Brussels and Internationale Architectuur Biennale Rotterdam. 

2017

Soon full book images.

Typography for Baloji’s music video for L'Art de la Fugue.
Designed in 2018.

I created a book called 'Totem Faces 7, Word Plays 17, Graphic Karaoke 31, Feels 45' with a small selection of my personal illustrations created in 2016. The numbers in the title refer to the pages of the chapters while the inside has no page numbers. 
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Soft cover, 21×26 cm, 74 pages. 

Entrance door prints designed in 2018 for CC Binder, the cultural centre in Puurs building designed by @plusoffice_architects. Photo by Nick Cannaerts for @dearchitectnl

Logo I designed for @artlead (featured in#loslogos8 book by @gestalten).
They democratize art through various art in public space projects, publishing editions and a curated online marketplace. discover & collect handpicked artworks from today’s best artists.
https://artlead.net/

Designe din 2015.

Artwork for single by Simon.
Photography by Darwin Cabrera.

Designed in 2021.

In 2007 Em. Prof. Dr. Johan Swinnen gave me my very first book project. He showed interest in my creativity from day one I met him. I consider him as a very important person in my career as a graphic designer. 
He’s an academic, art critic and writer who studied photography and cultural sciences and graduated in the art sciences. He’s also the founder and former director of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Belgium, emeritus professor at the School of Arts of the AP Hogeschool Antwerpen and used to teach at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Sorbonne. During his 40 years of international academic experience as professor of photography sciences he’s written many books where I was able to design a few of them. 
In May his first novel 'Happening' will appear. The book tells the story of the fire at Innovation in Brussels, built by the great Art Nouveau architect, Victor Horta in 1901. The Innovation department store was destroyed by a fire in 1967 in which 325 people were killed in less than half an hour. At the time there was an American promotion running. The tragedy led to new safety regulations and a new architecture for public buildings. It is said that it was to wipe out the memory of this disaster that the company remarketed itself as "Inno".
I realize how important this book is to him and I am very happy and honored he asked me to design the cover. 

Design of the new identity and magazine Chroma! An online and print magazine. THE RED ISSUE (Winter 2017) An eclectic mix of photography, art and creative writing.
www.chromamagazine.com
2017

Artwork for single by Simon.
Photography by Darwin Cabrera.

Designed in 2021.

An overview of the illustrative and graphic work produced between 2010 and 2013. For sale here. (2013)

This is my poster contribution for Nrmal (music) festival in Mexico City taking place on 11-12/03. They curated a list of 30 graphic artists in order to collaborate in a poster exhibition that will be held during the festival, focused on international designers with a strong approach to experimentation and a very personal insight of design.
They invited me to design one of the 30 artworks that will shape the exhibition.

Other contributing designers are: @timlindacher
@max.weinland @chrishchris @thomasherve_studio
@badesaison @corbinmahieu @marriapratts
@groupeccc @alexandermedel @bibakosmerl
@prestontham @plusmurs_studio @benoitbodhuin
@andreuserra and many more.

In March this year I was asked to develop a logo and illustrative identity for the new city architect of Ghent (‘stadsbouwmeester’), Peter Vanden Abeele and assist him as a designer as well for the coming 6 years. Together with Lisa Stubbe (design), Levi Lanser (visual research) and Olmo Peeters (architecture photography) I worked on this project. Aside from some limitations (use of typography and colors of City of Ghent identity) we are happy to show what we created. The logo and some first illustrations to show how SBMG will work. Many more illustrations are in the making and a nice campaign image as well. This project has good energy, good people!

'De bon matin, mocassins pantalons' – words from Clean Shoes by Myth Syzer Feat. Prince Waly.

(2016)

2018

Poster for the ‘Coexistence’ project for Slanted Publishers

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.
— Deepak Chopra

Designed in 2020

Logo for EXH @experimentalhousing ⚪️ — a Rotterdam based electronic music artist. Listen here: soundcloud.com/experimentalhousing 

Designed in 2018.

Poster for the ‘Coexistence’ project for Slanted Publishers

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.
— Deepak Chopra

Designed in 2020

Poster for Combo Combo festival 2022 in Lille, France. My poster contains an excerpt out of the book Time Bender by Tijn Touber.
It is a book about human beings being out-of-space beings who want to explore another layer of consciousness.

In March 2018 I was asked to develop a logo and illustrative identity for the new city architect of #Ghent (‘stadsbouwmeester’), Peter Vanden Abeele and assist him as a designer as well for the coming 6 years. Together with @helloimlisa (design), Levi Lanser (visual research) and @oooolmoooo (architecture photography) I worked on this project. Aside from some limitations (use of typography and colors of City of Ghent #identity) we are happy to show what we created. The #logo and some first #illustrations to show how #SBMG will work. Many more illustrations are in the making and a nice campaign image as well. This project has good energy, good people! 

Designed in 2018.

Interior architect Jessy Van Durme and photographer Piet Albert Goethals went to Scandinavia this year where they visited 17 ateliers of temporary designers. They photographed their work and work spaces and made a portret of each designer. The result is this book called Scandinavian Designers at Work (Publisher Luster).

Illustrations about finding balance in life (for sale, please email hello@stephaniespecht.com to purchase) - 2016. 

Publication for Noord Zuid Limburg.
The Ambitienota bundles and synthesizes the initial results of the research for the complex mobility project North-South Limburg. This publication forms a benchmark in the process and testing framework for the next step of design research into alternatives. It’s the first document in a series covering the investigation phase of the complex project.

Studio NZL is: Tractebel, Arcadis, Maat-Ontwerpers, 51N4E, UHasselt-ArcK, UHasselt - IMOB and LDR.

Designed in 2019.

A book with some latest work I created in 2016-2017.
For sale here.

When living in New York, my favorite bookshop called McNally Jackson, had this new Book Espresso Machine where you could print your own book. I decided to do so and created the first version of These 5 Years (in black and white), a small book with space for thoughts and humour that makes you think about the next 5 years in your life. In these times of the digital, the throw-away, the instant, it feels like we are missing out on permanence. Five years on paper has weight, a slowness and simplicity. Back in Belgium, I found a publisher interested in the book and six months later, the second version (two colors) was published.

The black and white edition is still available at McNally Jackson.
The color version is available in most bookshops in Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels, Leuven in Belgium. For more info about points of sale: Exhibitions International. (2012)

Screenprinted by Afreux

2015

Sweaters (oversized model)
grey w/ blue print: M/L (sold out)
electric blue w/ white print: S/M/L (sold out)

Totebags
electric blue w/ white print (sold out)
black w/ white print (sold out)
sand w/ black print (sold out)

Book and cover design for Framily – published by Lannoo. – 2015
Framily Facebook / Instagram / Site

Simple handwritten poster for an upcoming event with  for @parkfestivalantwerp @dtm_funk at @het_bos. (Pity I had to erase Hiele) ツ 

New identity for Private Image Inc. PII is a design and art advisory practice founded in 2016 by Barry Fox with offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Designed in 2018.

Identity for Matters of Space, a Los Angeles based interior design shop and agency. Matters of Space offers complete Interior Architecture and Design Services. Their focus is on Full Scale Residential Interior Design and Renovation as well as Adaptive Reuse and Development Projects.

Designed in 2016.

Full logo for Esther Jacobs, an architect engineer and urban planner. 2017

I am super happy to finally share the brand new identity I designed for All Eyes On Hip Hop. A Ghent based event collective.

Designed in 2017.

2018

2017

Illustrations, Table 1,2,3,4,5,6 - 2017. 

Poster for @aa_bp.be — a block party bringing silent disco listening sessions and strictly vinyl dj sets to the streets of Antwerp. Organized by @dtm_funk / @footjuice_records 🔜 22 Sept. 2018.

2017

2016

An identity for @roem_content - a creative hub that provides film content for any screen or application. 🎬 https://roemcontent.com
‘Roem’ means ‘fame’ in Dutch. 
Designed in 2017.

Off the Record is a brand new music TV show - airing this September 2015 on Canvas (a Belgian TV channel). I developed the identity of this show. Soon more!

Unused poster for the 20 years celebration of NICC. 2018

Cover for 'Cult op vrijdag' edition of De Morgen (19/01/17) newspaper. Theme: ‘Support Act: How do you get on that final stage – is a support tour a guarantee for a successful career … .'

Just finished the identity and layout for Nook, a new professonial magazine about interior architecture found and published by AiNB (Brussels, Belgium) and BNI (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The first issue will be launched 17 July 2018.

Designed in 2018.

Last October 2018 I designed this print #speechlessspecht for @supercollect.be. The print will be available at @supercollect.be tomorrow on Friday, Februari 1st 2019 at 12am CET. 
This edition is a #Giclee Fine Art print with UltraChrome inks on 300g cotton paper, numbered and signed. 100 copies.
Designed in 2018. Shown in 2019.

The Tanakh, the Bible and the Qur'an are 'sacred' books known throughout the world and with a history dating back over centuries. Today these books are still as elemental and significant as they ever were. They are at the heart of religious life for Jews, Christians and Muslims. 
This richly illustrated catalogue discusses the structure and content of Tanakh, Bible and Qur'an and explains how these books function in religious practice and study. (2014)

Publisher: BAI - MAS Books    
Expo: 19/9/2014 - 21/122014, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerpen 
Hardback, 255x200mm, 176p
English/ Dutch edition

Save the date poster for a Community Day at VF Belgium that will be used in-house. Collaboration with Nanna Reseke.
Designed in 2019.

Illustration (for sale, please email hello@stephaniespecht.com to purchase) - 2015. 

Two weeks ago we finished the identity and layout for Nook, a new professonial magazine about interior architecture found and published by AiNB (Brussels, Belgium) and BNI (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Concept development by Levi Lanser.
Extra design support from Lisa Stubbe. 
The first issue was launched 17 July. 
Soon images.
(2018)

For the 17th issue of Das Magazin (a literary magazine based in Amsterdam) I created a couple of illustrations for a story by Catherine Lacey and Jente Posthuma. (2016)

Logo for @chromamagazine. Worked on the design of their very first (printed) edition.

Designed in 2017.

Poster for a public space (Ghent, Belgium) exhibition project ‘Is This An Artwork To You’ by Lauren Bouden. Illustrations inspired by the results of graffiti removal. Other participants: Corbin Mahieu, Lennart Van den Bossche, Victor Sirot, Jaeho Sin, Panama Papers, … . Designed in 2019.

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. 
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! More images coming soon.

New logo for Von Yellow ~ a pr & communications / creative consulting / event concept & production agency. 

Designed in 2015.

Artwork for Baloji's singles in 2017 and 2018. Photography by Kristin-Lee Moolman. (2017)

New logo for Masterskaya Be, a young architectural bureau based in Moscow, Russia. The name of their office is 'Мастерская Б' (Masterskaya Be) means ‘workshop' translated in Russian. The “Be” is how the Russian letter ‘Б' is transcripted into English. “Be” is also the host of their website and a reminiscent of the years they studied in Ghent (LUCA).

Designed in 2018.

Together with Tom Van Keer we created a series of Finder icons (Mac + PC) called 'Saucisse Sans Soucis'. The lettertype used in the promotional posters is designed by Van Keer. Want those icons? Download them here!
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This is a commissioned illustration for Snip Snip Draakstraat (Antwerp, Belgium) hairdresser. It's a limited two color silkscreen print (size 100 x 70 cm). On view in Snip Snip Draakstraat. Prints for sale: 350 euro. (2014)

Artwork for single by New York artist Nivekk. Designed in 2017.