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We team up with hub.brussels, Brussels’ Business Support Agency, and shine a light on 50 of the Region’s start-up success stories driving the capital city’s economic landscape forward. From the eco-conscious manufacturer to the technology-enabled post-production imprint, our 50-strong selection of portraits and interviews plays testament to the Region’s dense and dynamic culture of entrepreneurship.

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We’re teaming up with Bike for Brussels to put together a 100-strong selection of local heroes shaping the city each in their own way. From designers and DJs to performers and publishers, these are the creatives riding Brussels forward.

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Nestled between Brussels and Antwerp, Mechelen has often been overshadowed by its larger neighbours. Yet teaming up with the City of Mechelen, our line-up of 100 of the city’s most prominent people, places and projects proves the extent of its potential. From artists and creatives to critical thinkers and fighters, these are the powerhouses driving Mechelen forward one step at a time.

The House Hundred

We’re teaming up with Bulldog to select 100 essential people, places and projects in Belgian house music. From producers and DJs to record labels and festivals, these are the forces driving the homegrown house scene forward, one BPM at a time.

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We’ve joined forces with Leuven to highlight 100 local people, places and projects that contribute towards making the city what it is today. From artists and architects to producers and professors, these are the driving forces powering Leuven forward one ingenious initiative at a time.

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We've teamed up with This is Antwerp to bring you The Antwerp Hundreds, a 100-strong selection of local movers and shakers setting the tone for the neighbourhood of tomorrow.

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Neighbourhood life This is Belgium
Immortalising dancefloor memories: Nightlife anecdotes and club flyer designs

Immortalising dancefloor memories: Nightlife anecdotes and club flyer designs

To coincide with the opening of Designing the Night at ADAM, we team up with design historian and the show’s curator Katarina Serulus and ask a few committed archivists to submit their iconic club flyers.

Neighbourhood life
A work-in-progress: The challenges ahead for Europe

A work-in-progress: The challenges ahead for Europe

What are the challenges lying ahead for Europe and how can we solve them?

Music
“I like to think there are many similarities between music and graphic design.” EURO2000’s Sam Gunst talks influences, visions and plans for the future

“I like to think there are many similarities between music and graphic design.” EURO2000’s Sam Gunst talks influences, visions and plans for the future

We meet Sam Gunst, the Ghent-based creative force behind 1STE VERDIEP, EURO2000 and ENERGIE on a hot afternoon to discuss the sound of a new generation, ultra-aesthetics and why energy drinks were the perfect medium for him to exploit both as a graphic designer and label owner.

Art Portfolio reports
“Weird twirls coming straight out of my brain.” Floris Hoorelbeke’s graphic abstractions

“Weird twirls coming straight out of my brain.” Floris Hoorelbeke’s graphic abstractions

Ostend native Floris Hoorelbeke's discusses late night art-making in Ghent and the various artistic and zine projects he has coming up ahead of his upcoming show at Sterput this Friday.

Neighbourhood life
The slashers re-inventing the work-life balance

The slashers re-inventing the work-life balance

Kick-starting our collaborative series of interviews with Rémy Martin back into action, we continue our exploration into the balancing act payed by some of the country's relentless multi-taskers.

Art Portfolio reports
“Flexibility is crucial.” How OUTLINE reflects on surroundings and its inhabitants to create art.

“Flexibility is crucial.” How OUTLINE reflects on surroundings and its inhabitants to create art.

Various art forms will be explored, boundaries will be crossed and the unexpected is to be expected as Belgian artists and creatives from further abroad will showcase new and existing works in the framework of Bekegem's PLAN B art festival. We've selected five artists and projects you cannot miss, starting off with the multimedia collective OUTLINE.

Art On-design
Conceptual re-evaluation: Balthazar Delepierre’s design exploration

Conceptual re-evaluation: Balthazar Delepierre’s design exploration

From familial inspiration with typography to finding his stride in style, Brussels-based independent graphic designer Balthazar Delepierre talks us through his portfolio.

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“I have my own way of doing things.” How the uncompromisingly cerebral direction of Zones Sensibles is paying off

“I have my own way of doing things.” How the uncompromisingly cerebral direction of Zones Sensibles is paying off

In an extended interview, Zones Sensibles founder Alexandre Laumonier discusses the publishing house’s commitment to editorial design, working exclusively with local suppliers and why he finds it interesting to correlate the geographical provenance of sales with voting numbers in recent French elections.

Art On-design
Resurrecting darlings: Ines Cox’s design self-reflections

Resurrecting darlings: Ines Cox’s design self-reflections

From childhood games with a copy machine to finding inspiration from her students, the unrelentless Ines Cox talks us through her portfolio.

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All-in-ones, or how the slash generation is re-inventing the work-life balance

All-in-ones, or how the slash generation is re-inventing the work-life balance

We look into the balancing act played by some of the country’s relentless multi-taskers, getting to the bottom what it is they do and how they manage it all.

Art On-design
Graphic design duo Atelier Brenda discuss studio dynamics

Graphic design duo Atelier Brenda discuss studio dynamics

We talk motivation, artistic integrity and getting your feet too close to the fire with graphic design duo Nana Esi and Sophie Keij of Atelier Brenda.

Neighbourhood life Do the right thing
15 things to do in Belgium this weekend

15 things to do in Belgium this weekend

Certified raves in Antwerp, birthday parties in Brussels, and graphic design festivals (finally) in Liège. Do the right thing.

Art Portfolio reports
The instinctive practice of artist Amina Saadi

The instinctive practice of artist Amina Saadi

Daily observations and a intrinsic, instinctive curiosity suggest a narrative steeped in "something more 'real', something more current."

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Merci, bisous et bonne année

Merci, bisous et bonne année

A few words about 2015 and a few wishes for 2016.

Neighbourhood life Area codes
Stephanie Specht’s Antwerp

Stephanie Specht’s Antwerp

In this week's Area code, we takes a stroll through graphic designer Stephanie Specht's Antwerp.

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If I ruled the world: Graphic design student Amina Saadi

If I ruled the world: Graphic design student Amina Saadi

We debut a new series giving a voice to the country's student body with KASK graphic design student Amina Saadi.

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The pulse of a city: 25 visual tributes to Brussels

The pulse of a city: 25 visual tributes to Brussels

Art institutions, online radio, graphic design studio, independent magazine: this is how Creative Belgium sees Brussels.

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How to get your voice heard in our next edition

How to get your voice heard in our next edition

We've kept three pages open in our next issue for readers to get their work published alongside the country's leading creatives.

Neighbourhood life
Inside Belgique-Op-Zee, our special edition

Inside Belgique-Op-Zee, our special edition

A few words and photographs on the special edition we made to mark the release of our book, This is Belgium.

Neighbourhood life Do the right thing
Ten things to do in Belgium this weekend

Ten things to do in Belgium this weekend

Our weekly round-up of cultural showstoppers marks its return this week with a 10-strong selection of agenda fillers.

Art Curator talks
APE founder Jurgen Maelfeyt on The Molem Collective

APE founder Jurgen Maelfeyt on The Molem Collective

A limited-run record, a sneaker fiend talking about his obsession and classic hip hop productions. Comes pretty close to nirvana.

Neighbourhood life
First glance at The second best. This weekend in Belgium.

First glance at The second best. This weekend in Belgium.

...plus two gatherings for graphic design and graffiti junkies while Antony Gormley sculpts up a storm...

Art
Fit to print

Fit to print

In a converted printing press we learn about the early days of Brussels' art activism and post-digital letterpresses.

Art
Open doors at Brussels’ design, architecture and film production hub L’Amicale

Open doors at Brussels’ design, architecture and film production hub L’Amicale

A bunch of seasoned Brussels designers of different stripes are throwing open the doors of their shared St. Gilles studio as part of Design September this weekend. Pleaseletmedesign's Damien Aresta tells us why we should visit L'Amicale.

Art
Graphic design exhibition Eat symbols opens at Pimpinelle in Brussels

Graphic design exhibition Eat symbols opens at Pimpinelle in Brussels

We paid a visit to Rue de Flandre's Pimpinelle, a unique concept store that will play host to its very first art exhibition this weekend as part of Design September. We found a unique cooking class replete with graphics and sound.

Neighbourhood life Do the right thing
The weekend in Belgium 24.05

The weekend in Belgium 24.05

Lots of reasons to get hyped about this Belgian weekend, with a mega-list of must-haves that includes the Lizzies, White Denim, a photography exhibition at Hunting and Collecting and much much more.

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Pimpinelle

Pimpinelle

Pimpinelle, a new boutique in Brussels for foodies, inspires Damien Aresta to sample some other recent delicious food experiences. Dig in.

Neighbourhood life
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.

Neighbourhood life
PLMD’s Pierre and Damien

PLMD’s Pierre and Damien

We polish off our series on creative and enterprising two-pieces with the delightful duo Pierre and Damien from graphic design studio pleaseletmedesign.

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Face to Face’s Delphine and Flore

Face to Face’s Delphine and Flore

On a total love buzz, we've begun harvesting some of February's Valentine spirit. We've decided to while away the month by introducing you to some inseparable Belgian two-pieces. Some are musicians. Others photographers. The odd DJ-duo, even. We kick off our series with Brussels-based graphic design team Face to Face.

Art
Rue Blanche

Rue Blanche

Rue Blanche is not only known as a purveyor of softness for everyday women but also for its outstanding look books. We dived a bit into history and had a closer look at its catalogues of the last 25 years.

Neighbourhood life
Win: Share our iPad AppStore link and win yourself a Word goodie bag

Win: Share our iPad AppStore link and win yourself a Word goodie bag

Share our iPad AppStore link on your wall, take a screenshot and email it to us. How to win yourself a Word goodie bag in three easy steps.

Style spotters: Damien Aresta

Style spotters: Damien Aresta

Part three of our series on everyday style, in partnership with Schweppes, sees us handing over the office disposable to Damien Aresta. A graphic designer, musician (he plays guitar in the indie folk/pop outfit The Ducati Lovers), art director and teacher (he teaches at ERG), Damien is a man who simply cannot sit still, continously […]

Neighbourhood life
Movers and shakers: graphic designer Emil Kozak’s video

Movers and shakers: graphic designer Emil Kozak’s video

We recently published an interview with Barcelona-based graphic designer Emil Kozak. Chosen as one of three endorsers for Braun’s CruZer campaign, Emil draws, paints, illustrates, skates and surfs. What is more, he also heads his own graphic design and art direction agency, and is often called upon to inject a little pizzazz to brands in […]

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Movers and shakers: graphic designer Emil Kozak

Graphic designers, if you ask us, don’t get half as much of love as they deserve. Part of that can be down to the fact that they operate on the fringes, preferring the familiarity of the backstage to the shine of the spotlight. Part of that is also down to the fact that they’re the […]

Neighbourhood life
Getting diggy with it: our QR codes

Getting diggy with it: our QR codes

You might not have noticed it, but we took a step closer to the future in our last edition, the red album. Indeed, QR codes (those god-ugly barcodes you can see at the tail-end of some of the red album’s stories and features) were introduced to our pages, the sole purpose of which is to […]

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Tap that thang: we want to hear from you (in return for some booze)

Our iPad app comes out early January. Expect a more engaging and immersive editorial experience. Print, digital, video and sound – all-in-one. Its starting point will be the magazine (as with pretty much everything in Word world), its scope the neighbourhood (you know, Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Eindhoven, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Koln) and its reach […]

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The Special Showstoppers: The Goods

We touch upon all aspects of design – from creation through to completion and reparation – in this month’s selection of special show stealers. We’ve got the software to prototype it, the loungechair to ponder it, the stool to rock it out, the plasticine to fix it, the mirror to have a final look at […]

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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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Ming Magazine profiles us

How does a Hong-Kong-based magazine with a distribution of over 350,000 copies in China hear about The Word? This is how it all happened: someone from Hong Kong visited Brussels, stumbled upon our Nippon Issue, brought it back to show one of his or her colleagues, who so happened to be a writer for Ming. […]

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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 shelf

You get in with a preconceived idea. Give it an hour or two and what you had imagined to be the shoot of the decade has changed entirely. For the better… Photography Yassin Serghini, Art direction Melisande McBurnie, Defacto model Lalita Davis For Amazon links: Design Revolution (Thames & Hudson), Remake it Home (Thames & […]

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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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The unprintables – The Shelf

A photo shoot for our book page typically takes Yassin (the photographer) and Meli (the art director, and sometime reluctant model) about half a day to nail down. With the former having somewhat of a itchy finger folly and the latter a seemingly unlimited supply of ideas, we often end up with quite a selection […]

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Brussels given the Wallpaper* treatment

With Antwerp having aquired the W* cachet a while back now, it was high time for the global style bible to take a closer look at our capital city, in the shape of its Wallpaper* City Guide Brussels edition, which launches this Friday from 19h00 at Brussels’ Sterling Books. Edited by Brussels-based journalist Guy Dittrich, […]

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Studio Job does it Neighbourhood Style

An outlying Amsterdam housing project is now the home to 800 square metres of ornamental friezes designed by Studio Job. Decorating the façade of 5 large new buildings commissioned as part of a development by Far West, the designs feature a rich collection of the Studio’s iconic graphics, from gymnasts to guns, insects to syringes, […]

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We dig the pig

Christien Meindertsma’s project to discover all the products made from a single pig (the titular 05049) ended up taking her 3 years, and included such unexpected products as wine, carbonless paper, zinc, medicine capsules, paint, cigarettes, toothpaste, heart valves and train brakes. The products were all exhibited at an installation in Rotterdam last year; for […]

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Launch of Unit Editions’ first book, Studio Culture

Unit Editions, a young upstart publishing imprit based in London, celebrated the launch of Studio Culture – its first book which delves into the sometimes insular world of graphic designers and their studios – with a party  at the big smoke’s Haunch of Venison gallery (aptly billed as a “Launch at the Haunch”). The night’s […]

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TICKL, a Polaroid perfect print periodical

Being a big magazine buff, my eyes near popped out of my head when I first stumbled upon TICKL early 2008. Having just released its fourth issue, I thought it was high time to give a neighbourly nod to the title that has slowly been aggregating the world’s kinky community. Published, edited and created out […]

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Design and design – The book of the year

A loosely fitted selection of wide-ranging designs, “Design and design – the book of the year” is a jam packed showcase of design talent the world over. Pulling in everything from products, corporate identities, album covers, furniture, packaging and magazines, the bulky book is a somewhat disordinate day-by-day snapshot of what’s been happening in the […]

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Anima Eterna catalogue by Undercast

I get an unbelievable amount of junk through the mail, but now-and-again, something catches my attention. To be frank, I hadn’t heard of Anima Eterna before, but after receiving their catalogue last week, Brugge’s symphonie orchestra definitely scored some Word points – essentially for getting Undercast, a Belgian graphic and web design agency, to design […]

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