On December 1, the Design Museum Brussels is hosting a double feature dedicated to graphic design, featuring the documentaries UNLABELED. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives and Designing From Home. By exploring the archives of graphic designers, these two documentaries take us behind the scenes of the creative process and reveal the stories, approaches, and inspirations behind their work. They also examine the role of archives in preserving and passing on this creative heritage: what should be preserved, how should it be preserved, and how can we keep the memory of graphic design alive? The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with the directors of Designing From Home: Dr Sue Breakell and Dr Harriet Atkinson from the University of Brighton’s Design Archives, and Tine Poot from the Flemish Architecture Institute. UNLABELED. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives (2026, VAi) What happens to the creative memory of a graphic designer? Five Belgian graphic designers exceptionally open the doors to their archives, where the past and present coexist. We visit Miche Wynants, Michel Olyff, Luk Mestdagh, Base Design and Atelier Brenda. The documentary takes us on a visual journey through workspaces and storage areas. As a viewer, you delve into boxes, filing cabinets and digital folders containing decades of iconic designs. Unlabeled bears witness to a human, and sometimes urgent, quest to preserve the value of creative heritage in an era of digital transience. Is what is not preserved lost forever? Language: FR/NL/EN (subtitles NL/EN) Duration: 30 minutes Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIpYbxN7yvw&t=85s Designing From Home (2025, Harriet Atkinson et Sue Breakell) Designing From Home explores the meanings of home for celebrated twentieth-century designer FHK Henrion, a German-Jewish émigré who designed for many famous brands. After living and working in Paris, Henrion fled to Britain to escape the Nazi threat in 1936, establishing home in Hampstead, North London, in a house that he and his family, including his sculptor wife Daphne Hardy and their children, lived in from the 1940s onwards, while she worked on major sculpture commissions and he built his graphic design practice from solo consultant designer to group design practice, working for companies such as KLM and Tate & Lyle. Language: EN Duration: 16 minutes Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1133125381?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
Cine Design | Unlabeled. Five Belgian Graphic Design Archives & Designing from home
Location: Place de Belgique, 20, 1020 Laeken
