Door Posters

Door Posters is a typographic poster series started by Studio Studio in 2015, run as a self-directed project from the front door of the studio in Ghent. The format was set from the beginning: A2 portrait, black and white, a typographic experiment built around the words Studio Studio. Later in the series the rule was loosened, and the words were replaced by two smileys. Within those constraints, each invited designer worked freely. The finished poster was printed in Ghent and taped to the glass door of the studio, and stayed there until the next one arrived.
The idea of an exhibition is reduced here to the scale of a single entrance. No opening, no programme, no schedule. The gallery is the door, and visiting it means walking past it. By handing that door over to a rotating group of outside designers, the studio lets other practitioners decide, one poster at a time, how it presents itself to the street.
Around thirty posters were produced in the first active period, between 2015 and 2018, with contributions from designers in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, among them Benoît Bodhuin, Francisco Torres, Kabo Lee, Lucas Descroix, Erik Brandt, Daniel Dobson, Ruben Lyon, … The archive is kept online as a record of the series.

The project is now being prepared for a next phase as a portable frame, so that the same format can travel to other doors and other cities, relocating this international graphic dialogue into new public environments.

Initiated in 2016 as a self-directed exercise, Door Posters operates as an independent exhibition space reduced to the scale of a single glass entrance. The constraint is strict: a black and white A2 typographic poster featuring only the studio name. What began internally quickly shifted into an open collaboration. Designers from various countries contribute to this continuous series, effectively allowing external practitioners to dictate the visual threshold of the workspace. As the archive expands, the project detaches from its original architectural boundary. It is currently transitioning into a traveling physical frame, relocating this international graphic dialogue into new public environments.

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