Eline Vandermeer
Graphic designer & illustrator
Independent designer working mostly with cultural institutions, small publishers and the occasional patient startup. I like identity systems that survive contact with people who are not designers, and I draw more than the job strictly requires.
Work
Kaap Festival
A full rebrand for a coastal arts festival — wordmark, a modular poster grid, and a colour system that shifts each edition without losing recognition. Now in its fourth year.
De Groene Boekhandel
Logotype, shelf wayfinding and a hand-lettered window series for an independent bookshop.
Atlas of Small Rivers
224 pages, 60 hand-drawn maps. Two years of evenings. Shortlisted for the Plantin-Moretus Prize.
Wilde Planten
Labels for a range of botanical syrups — twelve SKUs sharing one illustration language.
Museum Dr. Guislain
Wall typography and printed guide for a touring exhibition on psychiatric history.
Kwartaal
Art direction for a quarterly essay magazine, issues 7 through 18. Redesigned the grid at issue 12.
Halte
A condensed grotesque for signage, three weights so far. Slow project, no deadline, much happier for it.
Sunday Posters
One screen-printed poster a month, no brief, no client. Eighty-one so far.
Practice
Independent designer
Own studio2019 — Present- Identity, editorial and packaging work for cultural and independent clients.
- Usually two projects at a time — it is the only way the drawing stays good.
Senior Designer
Studio Vier2016 — 2019- Led identity projects for arts and public-sector clients.
- Ran the studio's internal type library and its uncomfortable annual portfolio review.
Designer
Bureau Noord2014 — 2016Editorial and campaign work. Learned to defend a layout without becoming precious about it.
Practice
2014 —
Tools & craft
Design
Identity systems, editorial design, packaging, exhibition graphics, type designTools
InDesign, Illustrator, Glyphs, Figma, screen printing, risographLanguages
Dutch (native), English (fluent), French (good)Education
MA Graphic Design
KASK School of Arts, Ghent
2012 — 2014
BA Graphic Design
LUCA School of Arts, Brussels
2009 — 2012
Clients
Eline gave us a system rather than a logo, which meant our volunteers could make posters for four years without asking her anything. That was the actual deliverable.
She redrew sixty maps because the first set were merely fine. I did not ask her to and I did not pay her extra.
Recognition
Plantin-Moretus Prize — Shortlist
Guest tutor, Graphic Design
Second-year identity studio, one day a week.