Laurie Giraud is a cultural worker and artist living in Brussels. She has many activities and skills depending on the projects she's involved in: art direction, graphic design, curation, illustration or screen printing.
Contact at hello@lauriegiraud.eu

Selected projects:

Rue de Liverpool

Liverpool car-free day is a public event in the neighboorhood of Cureghem (Belgium). At this occasion, people and communities throw a real block party! A poster is made to gathered all the associations and people involved in this event, among Gilbard collective. During the day, a series of screenprinting posters where made in collaboration with the neighbors and later been exposed on the street. "Save the date" poster design, screenprinting and riso printing. 16 posters created and screenprinted with locals.

A guidebook for Elles* font des films

Elles font des films*, a collective of audiovisual professionals in Francophone Belgium, published in 2024 the belgian guide Prévenir et agir contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles dans le secteur audiovisuel, to help professionals and productions set healthier directions and structures. Editorial design and art direction.

Métaphoriques Cannibales

Transdisciplinary digest 'Métaphoriques Cannibales' is featuring around thirty contributors. This book, edited by non-a, is conceived as an invitation to initiate a reflection on contemporary cannibalism. Press kit can be downloaded here. Online purchase here or there. Identity and editorial design. Curation and direction in collaboration with a few members of non-a.
Offset printing, 192 pages, 400 copies, glued spine.

Comité Informel’ bacchanales

A festive, sensitive, and sprawling event that took place on June 17, 2023, at Brasserie Illegaal in Brussels, initiated and curated by Comité Informel.Illustrations and visual identity system designed in collaboration with Geoffrey Bourgeois.

Gossips for Breakfast

Every two years, Mel Utzmann-North self-publishes a fanzine titled Gossips for Breakfast, celebrating the star system with a blend of irony, genuine affection, and consistent humor. Editorial design of the #2 issue and printing in collaboration with Mel Utzmann-North. Printed in Comcolor, 32 pages, stapled, 250 copies.

Bye bye Binary

In summer 2021, Alice Gavin services invited Bye bye Binary collective to lead a 3-day workshop at Ballet National de Marseille, directed by (LA)HORDE. The workshop focused on exploring new graphic and typographic forms, particularly experimental glyphs inspired by anthropomorphic and gestural elements. Type design workshop participation.

Gilbard et la Galerie des Futurs

Gilbard, a collective of designers and artists in Anderlecht, Brussels, works with reused materials to create local projects. In 2021, the Effondrement des Alpes platform invited them to participate in La Galerie des Futurs at BOZAR and temporarily relocate their offices for a residency. A catalog documenting the event was produced, featuring the objects created, exhibition excerpts, and an interview with Stéphane Sauzedde, a founding member of Effondrement des Alpes. Editorial design and interview. Printing in collaboration with Sarah Hillouz and Marius Escande. Printed in Comcolor, 32 pages, stapled, 50 copies.

SPACE/eCOLOGY

SPACE/eCOLOGY is an interdisciplinary research led by Marie Frénois, examining the environmental impact of digital infrastructures on the celestial vault. During her 2021 residency at iMAL, Marie created a leaflet titled "50/36,500 Objects in Orbit" and a website detailing the stories of 50 space objects out of the 36,500 cataloged in Earth's orbit. Editorial design and illustrations.

Caring + worlding

Caring + worlding results from a personal project: a collection of joyful moments and beauties. A personal project to enlight reasons to be optimistic for future. Woven into a book are short reflections, radiant images, excerpts from readings, and interviews with performer Tessa J. Hall, artist Flo* Souad Bennadi, graphic designer + DJ Maroushka Payen, and comic author Justine Sarlat, as represents for Bye bye Binary collective. Writing, interview, art direction and editorial design.

L’Araignée

A solo exhibition initiated and curated by the painter Victoria Palacios at Brasseries Atlas in south Brussels. Visual identity.

(RIGHT IN) THE FEELS

(RIGHT IN) THE FEELS is a vast group show - both online and in Brussels - that happened in 2020, questioning the expression of emotions in the digital age. Press kit can be downloaded here. An interview about this event with Switch (on paper) magazine can be read here (in French). Visual identity. Curation and coordination in collaboration with Martin Campillo and Gabriel René Franjou.

Death is all you need

In 2019, École Supérieure Arts et Médias (ESAM) Caen/Cherbourg (France), Beaux-Arts Paris (Printmaking/Publishing division), erg (Belgium) and Comédie de Caen (France) presented an experimental opera named Death Is All You Need. A libretto is shared alongside the show as an integral part of the piece, offering opportunity to explore specific scenographic details and textual nuances while the performance unfolds on stage. Libretto design. Digital printing, 32 pages, stapled, 150 copies. Photography by Igor Fouqueray.

Les cahiers du GRIF

The transdisciplinary research group Relire les cahiers du GRIF focuses on revisiting Cahiers du GRIF, the first Francophone European feminist journal, originally published in 1973. In 2019, the group organized a seminar, inviting participants to read and study select issues. Visual identity and printing in collaboration with Lucy Dupont.

P.A.R.T.S Generation XII

Every two years, the generation of students enrolled at P.A.R.T.S - Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (Belgium) - a school for contemporary dance founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in 1995, complete their master's program. This graduation culminates in a dance and performance festival. Editorial design of the program festival. Digital printing, 196 pages, glued spine, 250 copies.

Magma festival & super school

In june 2019 at Kanal — Centre Pompidou in Brussels took place Magma festival & super school, a big meeting-point between various Masters programs, where the ecological, social, political and poetical questions of our time can converge in relation to the field of contemporary artistic creation. Visual identity of the festival, web + print. Riso printing.

Coupeur Monospace

A typeface created from a fork of Cooper Hewitt typeface during a 3-day workshop led by Velvetyne at La Générale, Paris. This typeface is published under an open-source license and is free to use. Here is a link to download its last version. Typeface design in collaboration with Martin Campillo.

Thorsten Baensch

Bartleby and Co. is a publishing house specializing in artist books, founded in 1995 by Thorsten Baensch. The publications vary widely in form, genre and subject matter: they stem from Baensch’s personal work and collaborations. The book « Entretien avec Thorsten Baensch », is designed in echo to this publisher's distinct practice, which is documented and expounded in an interview. This text was also published in the periodical « Le Livre et l’Estampe : Revue Semestrielle de la Société des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique. » in 2017. Interview, research, editorial design.

Other collaborators:
Galerie Jocelyne Wolff (Paris, FR)
Espace Triphasé (Brussels, BE)
Ciné Place-Making festival (Brussels, BE)
Habitant-e-s des Images (Brussels, BE)
State of the Arts (Brussels, BE)
Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris, FR)
École de Recherche Graphique (Brussels, BE)
a§s (Brussels, BE)