Specht Studio
Role — Intern, then freelance
Timeline — 2 years
Skills — Typography, composition, art direction, identity systems
Context
Specht Studio, Antwerp. Where I learned type. I started as an intern in 2022, then kept working with Stéphanie Specht on a freelance basis. On cultural projects, it became a real duo.
Role
I worked alongside Stéphanie, not above her. On each project I looked for the underlying logic, the rule that holds an identity together across every format, and brought it to life in motion.
What I took from it
The Belgian school of design shaped how I think: strong, Swiss-rooted, built and ordered, bold and typographic, then broken by experimentation, superimpositions and graphic play that push past the rules. Structure with warmth. Craft inside the architecture of type and identity.
Whisper Festival, Antwerp
An intimate festival identity built on a single expressive typographic gesture: stretched display type and an interwoven mark, carried across print and motion.
Toneelhuis, Antwerp.
Identity and poster system for the rebranding of the city's theatre
The Good Com.
Editorial-led brand identity, quieter and more corporate in tone
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
Masters' Exp, Exhibition posters for the 2021 and 2022 editions, and communication posters for "Guess who's coming to diner" extending a direction Stephanie had set and adapting it across formats.
Lo-Tek Water
Help Specht Studio on the cover of the book published in Taschen edition
Nuit Sonores, Brussels
Identity for the festival's Brussels edition, declined across motion, posters and print.
What I brought
Systems and motion. On each project, the rule that holds the identity, then set in motion. The same instinct that runs through my work today: find the system first, then make it move.