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Five reasons why we deserve a week off

Five reasons why we deserve a week off

We'll be taking a couple of days off until Monday 22nd October and here's five reasons why you won't make us feel bad about it.

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Our new website

Our new website

A few words on our freshly re-launched website, the team behind it and the writers and photographers whose contributions we've enlisted.

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Yellow in the city: Ostend

Yellow in the city: Ostend

Being desk-bound and office-confined doesn’t disturb us all that much during the winter. But, come summer, we’re itching to hop on a train to the seaside. Currently working on our yellow album (out 20th May) means the itch has only gotten bigger. That being said, we enlisted our new photography intern Joke to day-trip it […]

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Exhibition: Veerle Frissen’s theatre of disturbed women

Exhibition: Veerle Frissen’s theatre of disturbed women

Veerle Frissen, whose intimate portraits have been gracing the magazine’s pages for over a year now, is currently showing her striking Théâtre des Femmes Perturbées series in Ghent’s ZebraStraat. All the pictures in the exhibition are self-portraits of the photographer in various situations and deal with women’s image. The women depicted aren’t necessarily Veerle and […]

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The red album launch party: the pictures

The red album launch party: the pictures

Red shoes, red lips, red shirts, a red beard, red cardigans and a red album. All that in Brussels Le Bar Rouge. Thank you all for coming, great night.

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The black album launch party: the pictures

Here’s the first batch of pictures from last Friday’s launch party at Delecta. All in all, a good night, and the first of many more to come. Special thanks to both Sarah’s and our graphic designers Pierre and Damien, whom we shamelessly put to work on the night by handing them disposable cameras. Photography Sarah […]

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Three of the best albums of 2010

Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer LP (Warp) Psychedelic tribal music for the new age, Gonjasufi’s A Sufi and A Killer (produced by Los Angeles-based, Low End Theory cohort The Gaslamp Killer) surprised just about everyone in the office. With the album’s production firmly rooted in hip-hop, Gonja’s vocals (at times raps, at times […]

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Photographer Ulrike Biets speaks the truth

Raw and uncut. Two words that best describe Ulrike Biets’ photography. One of The Word’s closest allies pretty much since the magazine’s launch, Ulrike has over the last few years been developing a body of work highly personal in its approach (she essentially captures her everyday surroundings – be they people, musicians or even animals) […]

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From Omsk with style

When we first heard of Girls From Omsk, we somehow imagined yet another sketchy service that would set you up with a pretty mail-order bride. It turns out it’s actually a Belgian fashion brand – are we to expect shiny leggings and fur collars, then? Writer Jill Mathieu Perhaps, because clichéd Russian kitsch holds a […]

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Spread The Word – the video

A short video about where we spread The Word, and how. Click here for our full list of distribution points. With extra special thanks to Julien Hassid (director), Jochem Thyssen (distributor/actor), Yassin Serghini (photography/camera).

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Back To School party: the pictures

We couldn’t quite believe our luck when the authorization came through. The commune of Ixelles/Elsene had approved our request to throw a “back to school” party in their crown jewel, the elementary school Les Mouettes. Held to celebrate the start of the school year and mark the beginning of Design September festivities, we got our […]

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With an eye firmly set on Russia

With our Russian Issue hitting the streets on Monday, a little teaser series courtesy of photographer Veerle Frissen.

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Back To School party: the video

It seems like only yesterday that we stormed the elementary school Les Mouettes for our Back To School themed bash. After giving you our cheese-tastic Yearbook pictures, here is a video of the night, courtesy of Sep Stigo Films. More photos (including classroom invasions, Professor Biche‘s lecture, dance floor action and the infamous playground toilet […]

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Back To School party: the yearbook project

As soon as we got the go-ahead from the powers-that-be to invade public elementary school Les Mouettes for our Back To School party, we simply couldn’t resist the idea of having our very own yearbook studio. Here are some of the photographs we got during the night, but you can view the entire album on our […]

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The (bloody) backstage at Lokerse Feesten

The (bloody) backstage at Lokerse Feesten

Photography Ulrike Biets Here’s some of the material we were able to get despite our limited access. It would be a shame not to share something that (questionably) deserved shedding blood for. After a hilarious two-hour show where he was beheaded, hung, stabbed by a sword, skewered in a nail-filled coffin, impaled by a giant […]

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Sealed anguish

We first stumbled upon Melika’s work when she started interning for The Word back in April. She managed to come up with a teaser for our Breakthrough Issue, portrayed dance sensation French Horn Rebellion when we met them for an interview, and immortalized the opening of our Skin exhibition and party, whilst wrapping up her […]

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The unprintables – Your days are numbered

We asked Felicie to create somewhat of an alternative board game for our Morning After Issue. Here, you get the chance to download the game’s unadultured and unobstructed version (complete with an online-exclusive title), as well as an interactive ‘how to play’ guide, just to make your fun that much easier on you… To put […]

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Waiting for The Skin Issue

Hard at work on our March edition, themed The Skin Issue (our Friday 5th March 2010), we’re on the lookout for stuff (rude boys, art history/curating/events interns, DJs submissions, etc…) and wanted to remind you of other stuff (more Morning After posts to look forward to, concert tickets to win, Tweets to follow). Here’s a […]

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The unprintables – The Word On

To some, the morning’s first rolling stock means blurry eyes, out-of-pocket trips and last stop wake up calls. To others, it means the start of the daily grind, a last chance for inner peace before the routine begins. To Ulrike, it really is just a chance for morning voyeurism. Hazy, absent and unobstrusive. First off, […]

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Days before The Morning After Issue

With three days to go before our first edition of the year comes out, a little treat courtesy of Sarah: three morning after shots of, as she put it, “the débris the new years eve party people left, in the city…” With a piece on how going cold turkey affects talent (put together by Randa), […]

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Christmas kitsch – The forgotten ones

In the rush of it all, I skipped a whole set of photographs Maren had taken. A little later than expected, some more Christmas Kitsch, this time from her recent trip to Barcelona:

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Christmas Kitsch

Its been a long year, and, despite it being halved, an apparently even longer week. Stylists with egos the size of cathedrals (we won’t kick and tell), distributors who want more (not that we’d complain) and readers we disappointed (our Charleroi series seems to have rubbed one or two locals the wrong way) mean we’ve […]

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The unprintables – The Word on Charleroi

A couple more shots that didn’t make it onto The Heritage Issue‘s pages, this time from Sarah‘s series on Charleroi:

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The unprintables – The Bling Showstoppers

Some more shots we didn’t run with in our December edition, this time taken by Ulrike for our Bling Special’s Showstoppers selection. “Funny story, when we were doing the shoot, two guys from the heating company came to do a standard check, but Zoe was almost fully naked, so I had to hide her. I […]

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Follow the Guide – The Video

Over two months after, it’s high time to refresh your memories and remind you of the interactive design exhibition we organised early September with a three minute video directed by Gaetan Saint-Remy of Sep Stigo Films. The three opening nights were as good a success as we had hoped for (this being our first truly […]

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Christmas kitsch

We’ve given our new photography intern, Maren, a somewhat seasonal assignment for her first week with us: to capture the gaudy kitschiness of Christmas. From Made in China plastic baubbles and diluted Christmas glühwein to synthetic reindeers and like-for-like window displays, we’ve given up reminiscing on the good old days of hand-knitten Christmas stockings and […]

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Sugar rushed, brains stormed

Three issues back to back – November, December, January – by the time we came to brainstorm the third one, we needed a mountain of sticky pastries in the middle of the table to get our poor, tired, brains kick-started. After all the attention they got for their Japanese series on our blog, we HAD […]

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On the way to the office – part three.

Given the visual treats we’ve been getting from Arnaud and Adrien, Veerle’s wandering photography series has taken somewhat of a back seat. Bringing her back to the fore, here’s part three of her world in images:

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Mind set on Iran…

Sarah, one of our photographers, and her boyfriend Yves, just came back from three weeks travelling around Iran. She took some mesmerising pictures, he ever so kindly scribbled down some words for us: “Let’s get one thing straight. Iran is not a terrorist nation. It must be one of the easiest countries to travel in. […]

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They came, brainstormed, ate cake, drank tea, then left.

In preparation for our December edition, themed The Heritage Issue (out Friday 27th November), the team gathered around the table to muse about the theme and its many possibilities. Delphine, Damien, Alex, Ulrike, Sarah, Veerle and Lea all were there, and ideas were aplenty. Some were good, some were bad, some were pretty, some were […]

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