Loraine Furter est une graphiste basée à Bruxelles, spécialisée dans l’édition hybride (publications papier et numériques), la recherche en design graphique et les projets féminixstes intersectionnels. Read me →
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“Armenian Letters, an intersectional introduction to Armenian type design for its diasporas and beyond” — contribution to Futuress, a feminist library of design books that are yet to be written! https://www.futuress.org/ — to be continued…
Webdesign based on the beautiful identity by Sara Kaaman — www.mothersanddaughters.be
Speaking Volumes installation at the non-binary department of Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, with artworks by Laurie Charles and a designed translation by Naz Naddaf, 9-30 November 2018. A feminist proposition about underrepresented publishing practices in history, with a focus on the relation with space --- the spaces that the book offers, the spacial conditions necessary to make books, the alternative spaces. Invited by Corinne Gisel and Nina Paim (common-interest)
Read/edit/talk/history installation with Just for the record at the Abattoirs de Bomel Arts Center, Namur, June 2018.
Design of the publication The Act of Building, by BC architects, edited by Pauline Lefebvre, May 2018.
Design of the publication Brussels Almanach Lesbian (♥), with Roxanne Maillet + design & programming of the website, May-June 2018.
Speaking Volumes, installation and event, with readings by Vanina Géré and Clara Pacotte, Josèfa N'tjam and Esmé Planchon, cneai, Paris, March-April 2018.
Presentation at the Centre Pompidou, with Sarah Magnan and Hélène Mourrier, invited by Tiphaine Kazi-Tani, cycle Design Marabout, Paris, October 2017.
Flag for the Fig. graphic design festival in Liège, February 2018. “Fig Fierce Feminist·e Flag” fait partie d’une tactique d’infiltration féministe joyeuse visant à profiter de chaque opportunité d’expression publique (conférences, expositions, workshops, publications…) pour exprimer des questions politiques liées au genre.
Research project Speaking Volumes on art, activism and feminist publishing, since Summer 2017-ongoing.
Graphic design for the conference Deconstruction, an international symposium on off-site seuse in architecture at TU Delft, in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut. Website, booklet and poster, designed with web open source tools (HTML, CSS, JS), at the core of which is the idea of re-use, modification and re-distribution, March 2017.
Design and curating of the platform design-research.be.
Public Domain design workshop with Ellen Lupton’s students at MICA Baltimore. In collaboration with Eric Schrijver. (website)
Graphic design & programming for the Hybrid Publishing Group’s website and various hybrid publications, 2015-2016.
Newspaper design and exhibition, project HALTE, as part of the Curating The Station residencies in Recyclart Brussels, December 2015. Coproduced by Recyclart and the ULB architecture research lab hortence, in collaboration with Elsa Maury, Anne-Laure Iger and orthodoxe.
Collaborative Open Source type design workshop with Ellen Lupton’s students at MICA Baltimore. In collaboration with Eric Schrijver, April 2015. (website) PDF
Exhibition of the project Wanderbibliothek at Rosa Brux, Brussels, with Clovis Duran, December 2014. Retrospective show of the books awarded by the Fernand Baudin Prize + exhibition of historical and new versions of wooden crates bookshelves that the Bibliothèque Pour Tous (Library for All) used at the begining of last Century to spread its books through the whole of Switzerland, by cart and on donkeys’ back.
Workshop Let’s Think Out Loud and editorial coordination, with graphic designer Manuela Dechamps Otamendi, International Graphic and Poster Festival in Chaumont, France, April 2014.
→ engagement — a campaign to end sexism in the arts
→ Open letter and movement against the Exclusionary BelgianArtPrize Shortlist of Candidates 2019.