Mad Surprize

First prize for graphic design at Mad Surprize! Young Belgian Design Awards 2014, the award of MAD Brussels for young designers from or based in Belgium. The award succeeded the Dynamo Prize, first presented in 2001. In 2014, ten projects per category, graphic design and furniture design, were selected for an exhibition at Bozar, and the winners were announced at the opening on 26 June. Mathieu Cieters won with a selection of his work in books and posters, among them The Graphic Nomad, a travelling research project into identity in graphic design in times of globalisation. The prize was the commission to design the graphic identity of the 2015 edition: sharp-cut geometric shapes on the open call poster that turned into soft, amorphous forms in the exhibition, with a scenography made with Arko Studio.