Residence Carrara compiles images and musings about entrance halls of post-war apartment buildings. All halls from this period look the same; There is solid carpet, every possible surface is covered with a different kind of marble and even the mirror shines with pride. Yet visitors and residents hardly look at them. They leave their mail lying around, stick handwritten bills over engraved nameplates and neglect the plants. In the luxury, the past glory, but also in the humanity, you can find a rare beauty. It will not immediately be noticed by simply walking through it. This book stays still in the entrance hall and observes.

This book contains a self-made photo series of about 40 entrance halls in Ghent. At the back of the book you will find a brief history about entrance halls, followed by a series of essays.

Part of my masterthesis about entryways.

Printed on dibond aluminium. Price on demand.

Brochure for the 2024 graduation show of master's students at LUCA School of Arts Ghent. Wrapped around the cover is a poster with an overview of all the graduation projects.

Booklet design for an essay-film proposal exploring the meaning of knowing a place.

Book design for a thesis on the pluriverse.

This research is about how we associate colours, shapes and typography with taste and smell. Based on that, a packaging-guide was compiled in which the process was applied to 10 products. The results belong to a family of products of some imaginative private label. Designs are stripped down to the essentials, which still preserve the required associations. A dynamic grid is used as a layout structure to create coherence between all packages.

This book is a compilation of my bachelor thesis and all the research I conducted.

7x7 is an overview of the 49 interesting packing-designs I found in the supermarket during a period of seven weeks. This was part of the research I did for my bachelor's thesis.

A complete rebranding for the youth theater collective Sjokkotof.

sjokkotof.be

26/06/2023 - 02/07/2023
One of the selected posters for the Onboards Biennale in Antwerp, with the theme 'In touch'.

The poster represents our mindless scrolling behaviour on social media.

This book is the result of a personal research into the history of color in interior design during the last century. For each decade, I choose ten interiors that appeal to me in some manner. The first five photographs are design interiors created by or for designers/creatives, while the last five are for the general public. Each chapter concludes with a summary of all colors mentioned. At the back of the book you will find an overview of all the color combinations and their HEX-codes.

A reissue of Flatland, a book about a two-dimensional world, written by E. Abbott Abbott in 1884. The design for this reissue starts with a focus on architecture.

How does a Flatlander live? What do their cities and houses look like? As a result of the geometrical shapes in this story, abstract designs for homes and urban design arose. The whole book was put onto four floor plans (A0 format) combined in a handmade folder.

A non-commercial poster for the movie Playtime by Jacques Tati.
Unlike the static, futuristic city where this story takes place, the people and the trafic are constantly moving. Arrows are the perfect symbol for attempting to make order in this chaos.

A typographic experiment, inspired by the Galapagos Game by Felix Salut.

Silkscreen on t-shirts.

Silkscreen experiments

Protesting bad driving behaviour.

A coorporate identity for the imaginary place ‘Seahaven Island’ from the movie ‘The Truman Show’.
This design evolved from an almost uncanny kindness. Every detail of the designs was done to unconsciously force the occupants to stay on the island and send only positive signals out into the world.

A displayfont based on the Braunproducts, designed by Dieter Rams.
The Braunbox included a risoprinted booklet and poster.

Part of a riso-printed calendar.

February is the month with the fewest days. The inspiration for this design came from February's desire to compensate for their failure by acting macho. Bodybuilders' arms were used to make a one-of-a-kind font for this design.

A logo created with my own initials, K. N. From the logo, an animation and a 3D object were designed as well.

A typographic postcard made during the covid crisis in 2020.