Mobile graphic design — William Denis

Salmaritin is a fictive village born from the meeting of “La S Grand Atelier”, an Art Brut contemporary center, and myself, where the notion of deviance is constantly questioned within a psychiatric background. In this imaginary space, every artist of “La S” gave themselve a specific role while I incarnated the fool confronting the village’s norms and rules. Through a human, organic and artistic dialogue, I created relationships with the inhabitants of this strange village.

In this book, I tell the story of how I encountered the artists of the atelier in a lineary way during three months, event by event, slowly becoming closer and friends in the end. Through the artworks made together, the crazy anecdotes that happened everyday in this place and interviews with specialists of Art Brut and the psychiatric institution about the importance of the village fool, this work is a celebration of deviance and madness.

300 pages, 24x32cm

Courtesy La "S" Grand Atelier
Lauréat des Amis de La Cambre 2024

ONHA visual identity

Since 2020, I’ve been working alongside Belgian rapper ONHA, from making his visuals to becoming artistic director. As we’re many creatives in different sectors working together on that project, we created a collective named Ovision. I am then part of this collective as a graphic designer, visual artist and director for its visual identity.

Pictures of the release party of “Opale”, ONHA’s first project, for which I made the poster. I also designed visuals for the rapper’s scenic outfit, and the merch that was sold at the event.

A series of visuals made for ONHA’s concerts.

OVISION open mic events

Visual identity and a scenogaphy for an open mic event created by Brussels based collective “OVISION” which I am a part of.

Roscosmic propaganda

In collaboration with Belgian artist and space searcher Louise Charlier, I worked on a series of posters of propaganda for her space agency called Roscosmic. 10 posters were made as a finality to this project.

Marni theater visual identity

This work is a concept of rebranding for The Marni Theater, a Brussels based place for alternative and contemporary scene arts. The concept behind this identity is the imagination of caves under Brussels, where artistic performances take place inside of it. This work was made at ENSAV La Cambre as a first year Master student.

Radio Esperanzah! 2022

During summer 2022, I worked on a visual identity for a Belgian festvial’s radio “Radio Esperanzah!”. It consisted mainly in creating a series of posters, and further a whole scenography of the place during the festival.