Pierre Huyghebaert (°1969, Leuven, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels.
He studied visual communication, typography and animation. In twenty years, he developped several practices around graphic design : co-founder of the type design label Hammerfonts, free-lancer and art director in various studios, co-founder of the studio Mind The Gap in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1993 with Karl Bassil, working in duo with the illustrator/photographer/cartoon publisher Vincent Fortemps mainly for the Belgian cultural world. After founding Normal a non-profit association, he currently drives his own studio Speculoos alongside with the book designer Alexia de Visscher. They share Speculoos as a way to express their common conceptual processes and their interest for the ready-made. They see it as a structure dedicated to the development of specialized but eclectic projects in such fields as web interface, cartography, typographical creation, schematic illustration, software development management and book design.
Pierre also teaches book design and complex visualization projects at the Digital Arts section of La Cambre art school and sometimes at Erg, in Brussels.
He collaborated with visual artists such as Honoré d’O, Patrick Corillon, Vincent Meessen, David Evrard, Simona Denicolai and Ivo Provoost...
Researcher at the Libre Graphic Research Unit
Open source publishing with Harrisson, Femke Snelting and Constant vzw : research and events crossing the reappropriation of the designer tools by the designers. Participation in several workshops and Print Parties : Wizard of OS - Berlin, St Martin’s - London, Werkplaats Typografie - Arnhem, Erg - Brussels, LGM - Wroklaw (Poland), LGM Montreal, LGM Brussels, Bauhaus Weimar, Open Design Week Vietnam
Designer for OSP and Speculoos of the exhibition Africa Fast Forward
‘Towards’ with Recyclart, Citymined and Constant vzw : publications, workshops, exhibitions and research about new ways to develop subjective and collaborative cartographic systems
Cartographer and designer for the Belgian and the French pavillion at the International Exhibition of Zaragoza 2008
Co-curator for a cycle of conferences of the Institut Bruxellois d’Architecture Instituut with Alexia de Visscher and Dag Boutsen : "At the borders and margins of projects" (2007)
Opera libretto for La Monnaie/De Munt : 7 differents books (2004-2007)
FRMK publisher (contemporary comics, aka Fréon + Amok) : book design for all collections, scenography of exhibitions (1996-)
Palestine and Israel, cartography
Several urban design and urban plannings publications and exhibitions, collaborations with the Disturb collective
VPRO gids - the Netherlands - Covers design (2003) after proposals of Piet Schreuders
Collaborations around the Universal Embassy, ao design of the flag and inhabitant card
Halles de Schaerbeek (cultural center) : print design and web design (1996-2002)
Publication Druk : article on vernacular typography in Brussels Crickx (1999)
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts : conception and design
Transquinquennal (contemporary theater company) : identity, posters, website, special projects collaborations, member of the board (1998-2007)
Bruxelles nous appartient (collective urban memory project) : graphic identity, publications, website (2000-2007)
L’image, le monde (cinema magazine) : conception, graphical identity, lay-out (1998)The Potential Estate website • www.potentialestate.org • Confirm your interest here!