Off the Grid

In Off the Grid, graphic designer Sara De Bondt explores the origins of graphic design in Belgium in the sixties and seventies, a history about which there has been very little awareness until now. The exhibition stages two and three dimensional work — many items have never been exhibited before — of well and lesser known designers. Sara De Bondt reacts to this using her own practical experience and explores how contemporary aspects of graphic design, such as hybridity and authorship, can be better understood from a historic perspective. The exhibition is set against the background of the new ‘Graphic Design’ programme series focused on historic and contemporary Belgian graphic design within an international context.