SO POOL!
Ville de Tournai swimming pool. Project coordination led by us, artwork and painting by @marinebonamy
In Tournai, another season, another lieu, another mural. This time, it is the newly renovated swimming pool of Tournai, with a mural by the artist, Marine Bonamy, and us, HIER, managing, following-up and helping with the execution.
The idea was to have a colorful mural, that accompanies the visitors while swimming. With organic and floral shapes, with a graphic style using small lines to energize and give rhythm to the whole.
This story was told and painted with the help of an incredible set of hands of Hedi Baka and Wenc from Les Îles Mardi, and @emilie_delarbre.
Marine Bonamy, the artist, works around the themes of the organic, the mineral, and the aquatic. Her work is based on texture, superposition, and movement.
Thanks to @IDETA @TRADECO and @w_e_n_c @hedi_baka @emilie_delarbre for the help
Photos and video by @jules_cesure
50
Happy, happy to have been chosen by Sotheby’s & Mad Brussels to design a window display for Sotheby’s 50th anniversary in Belgium. And what a better way to celebrate than with a big, big, cake.
Happy, happy to have been chosen by Sotheby’s & Mad Brussels to design a window display for Sotheby’s 50th anniversary in Belgium. And what a better way to celebrate than with a big, big, cake!
Elevated on a pedestal, this cake of 150cm high is made of 5 layers, each representing a decade of Sotheby’s and a different sales category from Sotheby’s. Each category is represented by collected materials/objects, regaining thus value with the composition.
50 thanks to all our material collaborators: @thy_marcinelle @niyona @chezrosi @rotordc @oxfam.be & @jiji17_ for the graphic intervention.
Photos & Video by Luciana L. Schütz AKA Lulu.
Tournai Général
One city. Two interventions. Three artists, and HIER, us.
Branding Tournai this time, branding both sides under a bridge, and one over another, both alongside the canal de l’Escault.
One city. Two interventions. Three artists, and HIER, us.
Branding Tournai this time, branding both sides under a bridge, and one over another, both alongside the canal de l’Escault.
Murals telling the story of the city, of its architecture, folklore, and personas, under Pont A. Devallée. A story told by two different artists: Hedi Baka and Wenc part of the collective Les Îles Mardi.
A ground mural telling the story of the intersection between water, earth and stone, over the passerelle Notre Dame, by the artist Marine Bonamy.
These stories were told and painted with the help of an incredible set of hands @cocolaurens @olwesto_paobar @antoine_moustie @octaviolimaa @rammouk
Les clés de la ville - Pont A.Devallée
This mural is an invitation to discover the story of the city and its heritage through flags, pictograms, iconic characters. Its content is inspired by local craftsmanship, folklore, and the architecture of the city.
The artwork here is a collaboration between two who collaborate a lot: Wenc and Hedi Baka. A lover of architecture and captured instances, and the other passionate about energetic and vivacious characters.
La passerelle aux reflets - Passerelle Notre Dame
This floor mural echoes with the canal, with the passers by and with the boats crossing beneath it. It aims to create a social link, a place for exchange of words, of love, of looks towards the city. The painted shapes and their colors reference the worlds of water, of earth and of stone.
Marine Bonamy, is the artist of this work. Her universe is organic, mineral, and aquatic. Her work is based on texture, superposition, and movement.
Project powered by Colora Zaventem
Video and photos by Jules Cesure, the only one.
So happy and proud with this collaboration.
And if you drive by Tournai, take a Tournai by the canal and wander through a graphic novel of the city.
BRICKS
The collaboration HOULÉ x HIER is a research project, a work in progress and a story of process, of exchange, of adding and subtracting. A journey of words, drawings, textures, and samples.
Here, the results of a one year collaboration, between HIER and briqueterie HOULÉ.
You can check out the feel of each brick made @fondationboghossian in the exhibition Duos in Resonance up to the 20th of august 2023.
The collaboration HOULÉ x HIER is a research project, a work in progress and a story of process, of exchange, of adding and subtracting. A journey of words, drawings, textures, and samples. A process generating multiples possibilities, some explored, and others yet to be explored. A process where mold and brick form a duo, and are a result of a duo.
in PROCESS we trust
We have met. We have talked. We have listened.
On one side, there is the artisan, Mathieu, and his machine, semi manual semi automated .
On the other side there is the design party, HIER.
Mathieu Guitoun, a brick maker/artisan, produces bricks using the same techniques, machines & process as the old brick factories from 19th - 20th century.
That philosophy and respect for tradition offers an authentic look but also a quality that you no longer find with the industrial bricks. The same could be said about the colours: they are not to compare with those of the industrial brick.
Concept and approach
From the different approaches we could have chosen for this project, the duo decided to use Mathieu’s machine to produce more of his product, the ornamental brick. But more textured, deformed, or stamped.
Our approach is to use the same machine, make use of the freshness and malleability of the product before its drying and then cooking, and find low-budget solutions such as additions to the existing mold or stamps.
End game
to develop something that could be added to his catalogue of products.
develop something smart and efficient that tweaks the standard brick, adds variety to the collection.
Game plan
Modifying the pressing mould: add pieces, corners, or layers of textures
Manipulating after pressing: explore different stamps and enamelling techniques
Cheers to Wallonie Design. And thank you for this great opportunity and for pairing us together :)
Process photos by @heloiserouard & us. Photos of the exhibition by @silviacappellari and Maxime Legrand - Fondation Boghossian – Villa Empain, exposition Duos in Resonance, Brussels, 2023
Time machine - La Yourte
An hourglass. An hour-tree. Sand running, leaving empty, the branches of that tree. Showing the time that has passed.
For a video of the project, please click hier.
Or check Auvio
Thank you @tipikrtbf + @andriendevyver_ for the images and footages.
On <3 la RTB
hub.awards2022
This is not a trophy. Not in a traditional sense anyway. It should not gather dust. It does not die on a shelve. It lives. It grows. It glows. Well no. It does not glow. But for sure evolves.
This is not a trophy. Not in a traditional sense anyway. It should not gather dust. It does not die on a shelve. It lives. It grows. It glows.
Well no. It does not glow. But for sure evolves.
3 parts it gathers. The pot/container. The personalised mini trophy/retainer. And the plant/of life.
To each category a symbolic plant. Carefully chosen.
Each plant grows in hand made pot, made in Brussels, with Belgian earth.
Around each plant's neck sits a mini personalised trophy, that retains water and feeds the life. Made just like the pot. With Belgian earth.
A project for hub.brussels
Ceramics: Esther Bapsalle
Pics and video: Joe Khoury Studio
Special thanks: Justine Guichard
Route de la Laine - Mouscron
Branding Mouscron, branding the wool road, the new road.
Weaving the story of the city with a blue thread of wool. Hier an exciting 1700sqm journey, with two amazing illustrators: Hedi Baka and Wenc.
Branding Mouscron, branding the wool road, the new road.
Weaving the story of the city with a blue thread of wool. Hier an exciting 1700sqm journey, with two amazing illustrators: Hedi Baka and Wenc.
And an incredible set of hands @cocolaurens @bks_ttt @oresto_paobar @dzi_smooth @beata_kwasnica @anais_neo @colombine____
Project powered by Colora Zaventem
So happy and proud with this collaboration.
And if you drive by Moumou, slow down, and dive in the colours.
Video by Jules Cesure, the only one.
Extra thanks to Vedett for the daily fuel
Antoine architectural finishes
A simple, sample story.
The story of a genuine sample meeting an architect, hoping to be caressed, kept, and then maybe chosen.
A simple, sample story.
The story of a genuine sample meeting an architect, hoping to be caressed, kept, and then maybe chosen.
We have spent sometime listening to the brand, to its lean towards the beautiful imperfections; to it’s raw/natural story, its textures, and wanted to reflect it in a simple sample that is different from others, and would attract and be kept by an architect who receives un-storable amounts of samples. A sample that is genuine, and therefore out of plaster, lightweight, imperfect, covered then with natural paint, Antoine's architectural finish. The sample has Antoine’s name embossed from its surface, waiting to be felt with the run of the fingers, poetic to the touch, just like Antoine's textures.
Collaboration with Joost Vanhecke
Photos by: Piet Goethals
One line. Two lines. A horizon line.
A library for Antoine. A display of a sample story. For a line of architectural finishes. For Milan design week. In the heart of a collaboration with collective BRUT.
The materials of the library _from dark to light, from heavy to light_ are steel for the structure and plaster coated with an Antoine finish for the shelves, just like the simple samples, only bigger.
The structure, an assembly of two frames, one straight one tilted, allows the samples to be displayed in a vertically tilted position, standing on one shelve while resting on the other.
Photos by: Eline Willaert
Photo by: Alexander Popelier
Brasserie de la Senne
Design a beer glass specifically for the brewery, one that is not picked from a catalogue
Design a beer glass specifically for the brewery, one that is not picked from a catalogue
A particular care should be given for the conservation of the foam
The straight sides of the glass (which is not common in beer glasses) is a “vitrine” for the beer
The converging neck tightens the aromas
The aim was to design a glass that is in between the calice of a special beer and the simple glass of the table beer, perfectly representing the philosophy of Brasserie de la senne, a beer for connoisseurs, without elitism.
