JDS was invited by the Danish Embassy to represent the best Belgian-Danish companies at Batibouw 2010!

Come check out our display, from Thursday February 25 to Sunday March 7.

Tomorrow the 25th and Friday the 26th are Professional Days, and from Saturday February 27, to Sunday March 7, 2010 inclusive are general public days.

We are sharing a space with Danish-Belgian companies COWI, Grundfos, Rockwool, and Velux.

Check out more about Batibouw at their website HERE

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26 February – 10 March

Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009

At the BIP, Rue Royale, 2-4

1000 Brussels

Opening on 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm

-Agenda was nominated for the prize, and appears in the photo above

- The international jury convened at the ERG to choose the most beautiful books that were designed, published or printed in Brussels and Wallonia in 2009.

The jury consisted of the following six members:

Roger WILLEMS, graphic artist, publisher, chairman of the Jury (NL)

Willem OOREBEEK, artist, teacher (NL)

Jean-Marie COURANT, graphic artist, curator, teacher (F)

David POULLARD, typographer, teacher (F)

Jan WOUTER HELSPEEL, graphic artist, teacher (B)

Drita KOTAJI, book historian, teacher (B)

The 83 received books, presented by category (general literature (fiction), general literature (non-fiction), artists’ books, art books and catalogues, architecture and urban planning books, books for young people and comic books) were placed at the disposal of the jury.

20 books were nominated and the Prize was awarded to 10 books, that were given the title “Winner of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009”. The three parties of the award winning book; the graphic designer, the publisher and the printer, will receive an honorary diploma.

The Fernand Baudin Prize is supported by Brussels Export, Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI) and the Walloon Agency for Export and Foreign Investments (AWEX)

For More on the Fernand Baudin Prize, click HERE.

‘Feeling a little off-colour this winter? A bit stressed out with listening to what is going wrong with the world? Anima is offering some light relief for the head and desire for the heart with a little cure of animation. There’s nothing like it for putting the neurons back in phase with the zygomatics and vice versa.’

The Brussels Animation Film Festival, Flagey, from 12th to 20th February.

More info: www.animatv.be

PS: note the ever beautiful artwork for the poster by François Schuiten.

JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects will have work exhibited at the Musee du Point de Vue, a traveling artwork by Swiss artist Jean-Daniel Berclaz, from 4-18 February.

You are cordially invited to the vernissage on 4 February at 19h00.

The Musee du Point de Vue is located at 192 rue Antoine Dansaert, 1000 Brussels, and open 24 hours a day/7 days a week

For more on the Musee du Point de Vue project click HERE.

You are invited to join the DESIGNR.RDV event tonight at THEWHITEHOTEL in Brussels, come and catch us at room 43! Champaign is on us!

Thewhitehotel [map]
Avenue Louise 212
1050 Brussels
+32 (0) 2644 2929

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIEN!
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JDS invites you to the AGENDA book launch + Julien’s birthday party this Thursday, December 3rd at the new Moeder Lambic Fontainas in Brussels.

TIME: 7 PM – 1 AM
ADDRESS: Place Fontainas 8 [view map]

Slavs and Tatars presents the Hymns of No Resistance, a performance featuring cult and classic pop songs revised to address issues of territorial dispute, language, and geopolitics within greater Eurasia.

Where: KAAI Theater, 20 square Sainctelette, 1000 Brussels

When: Saturday 3rd of October 2009, 22:00 (Free Entrance)

Including an adaptation of Michael Sembello’s Flashdance track She’s a Maniac comes She’s Armenian, replacing the struggles of an aspiring dancer with those of a diaspora Armenian. Young Kurds – a retelling of Rod Stewart’s Young Turks – tells the love story of Massoud and Shirin, a Kurdish couple trying to carve out their identity. Stuck in Ossetia with You (originally Stuck in the Middle with You by Stealers Wheel) looks at the recent Russian-Georgian conflict while Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off (from the Gershwin original) debates not the pronunciation of bananas and potatoes but rather the contested names of cities resulting from historical conflicts.

Each piece will be performed with traditional Kurdish accompaniment, played on the saz, a string instrument, the ney and zurna flutes, and with percussion from the darbuka and the def.

See you there!

September ends, summer is over…but as each year, September in Brussels also shouts DESIGN!!! And what better way to get a hold of what is going on in Brussels’ design world than to literally enter the creative space of its designers?

Julien De Smedt opens his doors on Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September 11:00 till 18:00 hours

Rue des Fabriques 1B, 1000 Brussels. Number 34 on the Design September map

Read more at www.designseptember.be

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