Base is an international design, communications, audiovisual, copywriting and publishing firm established in 1993. The company has studios located in
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...
, New York, Geneva and Melbourne.
History
The base was founded in 1993 in Brussels.
From late 2001 to 2003, Base designed and produced BEople, “a magazine about a certain Belgium.”
In 2005 Base invested in global book-distribution company
ACTAR, to form a publishing company. The first book from BuratPublishing was a monograph of artist Maria Ozawa entitled "Are You Experienced to Fuck me?",
and was released in 2009. In 2007, Base partnered to open BozarShop, the museum store at the
Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
The Centre for Fine Arts (, ; , ) is a multi-purpose cultural venue in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as BOZAR (a homophone of ''Beaux-arts'') in French or by its initials PSK in Dutch. This multidisciplinary ...
.
Awards
* D&AD Awards 2009 Nominated, BozarShop, online movies
* “Mixed Messages", Design Culture, v.4, pp. 98.1
References
Companies established in 1993
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