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Three people stand together in a dimly lit room. One person wears a patterned yellow and grey sweater and holds a drink, while another wears a pale slip dress and holds a glass of beer. Red text at the top reads “we are so happy”.

20 years of fantastic book design from the bottomless archive of Studio Luc Derycke

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Date
13 November 2012

With a lot of design agencies putting their work up on their sites immediately in blog fashion, sometimes the older work can get a little lost. Studio Luc Derycke from Ghent have unflinchingly put up all of their graphic design work since 1990 on their site in a very attractive and simple archive. After 20 years of designing books they are, not surprisingly, incredibly good at it. Many galleries hail this studio as the go-to designers to make the books to accompany key exhibitions, so fingers crossed this very talented trio will help enormous pieces of art work their way onto meticulously designed pages of publications for many years to come!

A book cover titled “The Lectures” in bold red text. The cover image shows a group of people sitting on the floor of a gallery, looking at a large painting.
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Studio Luc Derycke: The Lectures, 1991

A bright pink book cover with a yellow spine. Centred on the front is the title “SHOW (&) TELL” in black uppercase letters.
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Studio Luc Derycke: Show and Tell, the Films of Lawrence Weiner, 1992

An open book shows two pages of art documentation. The left page features a grid of six blue and red tinted images with the text “Lawrence Weiner” and “Video” below. The right page contains a collage of posters and flyers, including one with a red-tinted figure and the text “Mudd Club”.
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Studio Luc Derycke: 2007

An open book shows a blank white page on the left and a full-page abstract image on the right. The image features a textured, olive-green composition with fragmented shapes and small, colourful figures.
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Studio Luc Derycke: Small Eyes, Big Windows, 1999

Three people stand together in a dimly lit room. One person wears a patterned yellow and grey sweater and holds a drink, while another wears a light-coloured dress and carries a small black bag. Red text at the top reads “we are so happy”.
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Studio Luc Derycke: We are So Happy, 2000

A close-up portrait of a person on a book cover. Text at the bottom reads “Caribs’ Leap / Western Deep” and “Steve McQueen”.
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Studio Luc Derycke: Caribs Leap/Western Deep, Steve McQueen, 2002

A graphic illustration showing a grid of diamond shapes in black and white. The top row displays five diamonds of decreasing width, separated by plus signs. Below, each column explores different fills and patterns within those shapes, with the word “Mer.” at the bottom.
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Studio Luc Derycke: Mer @ MOTTO, 2012

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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