Studio Studio is an independent graphic design and web development studio in Ghent, Belgium, founded in 2014 by Mathieu Cieters. The work spans creative direction, visual identities, editorial design, books and printed matter, websites and webshops, typefaces, and the design systems and tools that hold them together. Clients include cultural institutions (museums, festivals, schools, publishers, public organisations), independent creative practices (artists, photographers, musicians, performers, chefs, makers) and ambitious companies that care about how they present themselves.
Our approach starts with ideas, not decoration. Design serves its content, context and users, which means clear logic, conceptual restrictions and objective choices over endless options. Every project is a dialogue between clients, audiences, software and materials. The physical work matters: books, prints, objects. The digital is built with the same precision.
Some projects are systems: identities that extend across years and formats, tools that let clients build independently on a shared logic. Others are singular objects: a book, a poster, a typeface. Both follow the same principle. The concept comes first. The form follows from it.
Mathieu Cieters also teaches graphic design, digital design and web development. Three self-initiated ventures run alongside the client work: Another Graphic, a typographic archive maintained for over a decade; Graphic Graphic, a platform which aims to demystify and elevate Belgian graphic design; and Typo Typo, a type foundry focused on conceptual and narrative typography.
The studio’s work has been featured in Taschen, Plus 81, Étapes, form Design Magazine and Design 360° among others. It has also been shown at numerous institutions and festivals including Bozar, Design Museum Gent, Graphic Design Festival Scotland and NRMAL in Mexico City.
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