About

Mathieu Cieters is a graphic designer, web designer and web developer based in Ghent.
His practice moves between commissions, research, art and teaching.

In 2014 he founded Studio Studio, a studio for graphic design, web design and web development. The studio works mainly for cultural institutions, creative practices and ambitious companies. Alongside design, he develops websites and his own tools, and uses AI within the design process.

The Graphic Nomad is his research into identity within graphic design, through cultural influences in times of globalisation. For it, he travelled through Europe, met local designers and worked with them. He translated those encounters into cross-disciplinary projects.

As a curator and publisher, he builds platforms for the discipline. Since 2012 he has curated Another Graphic, an archive of graphic design with a focus on typography. In 2023 he started Graphic Graphic, a platform for Belgian graphic design. With Typo Typo he is building a type foundry, and with Door Posters he shows posters in public space.

He also teaches graphic design, digital design, web development and generative AI at LUCA School of Arts and Arteveldehogeschool. He gives lectures and workshops, among others at PXL-MAD, the KABK in The Hague, FIG Liège and Designregio Kortrijk, and has sat on juries, including those of the European Design Awards and the master's programme in Graphic Design at PXL-MAD.

His work won first prize for graphic design at Mad Surprize (MAD Brussels, 2014), has appeared in Taschen, Étapes and Plus 81, among others, and has been shown at Bozar, Design Museum Gent, Graphic Design Festival Scotland and Nrmal in Mexico City.

He studied graphic design at KASK in Ghent and continues to train. He studied typography at the Plantin Institute in Antwerp, took masterclasses on variable fonts with Grilli Type, and is studying photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. His interests include visual communication, digital culture, contemporary typography, and documentary and travel photography.