La Balsamine — Saison 2023-2024

commission
2023
identity

La Balsamine is a well established contemporary theatre in Brussels dedicated to supporting emerging artists through research, creative residencies and its production support. The artistic direction changes every 5 years and we were happy to join the new ‘gardeners’, Isabelle Bats & Mathias Varenne, as their graphic designers.

visual identity – website – guidelines – newspaper 24p / 10,000 copies – A5 flyers / 2,500 copies – 2m2 posters / 6 versions

© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal
© Anouk Boyer Mazal

La Balsamine — Saison 2023-2024

commission
2023
identity

La Balsamine is a theatre, but also can be thought of as a garden where performing arts are nurtured. It promotes sensitivity and fragility imbedded in the core of its shows along with a bold, strong attitude.

The visual identity is exclusively built with our rawest material: typography. We use a growing pattern where the letters reflect the Balsamine theatre's ethos. For the season's catalogue, we also chose a raw print product: the rotative newspaper press.

To mark the second season of our collaboration, a warm colour appears in the gradient through complex nature inspired patterns. These lines spreading the text follow the Turing Pattern formulated by the famous mathematician Alan Turing.
For the portraits of the resident artists, Ichraf Nasri has created beautiful and lyrical images.
website:
Balsamine.be
fonts:
BBB Karrick by Jean-Baptiste Morizot & Lucas Le Bihan with additional inclusive glyphs by Bye Bye Binary (Clara Sambot
Quentin Lamouroux).
performers and artists photos:
Ichraf Nasri
webdevelopper:
cobea.coop