Jérémie Claes

May 2022, 336 pages

Binding: Sahoko Yoshino
Paper: Munken Cream 80g
Cover: Red leather
Printing: Black and white (Magnetography)
Typeface: LL Bradford (Lineto)

A diatom (from the Neo-Latin diatoma) is a type of microalgae found in oceans, rivers, and soils around the world. Living diatoms are a major part of Earth's biomass. They produce about 20 to 50 percent of the planet's oxygen each year, absorb over 6.7 billion tons of silicon from the water, and make up nearly half of the organic matter in the oceans. The silica shells of dead diatoms contribute significantly to marine sediment. Each year, around 27 million tons of diatom shell dust from the Sahara Desert, especially the Bodélé Depression, are carried across the Atlantic by wind, helping to fertilize the entire Amazon Basin.

Development of a custom interactive tool as part of a larger project for an interactive type specimen to be published on Lineto.
The tool is based on a variable typeface inspired by the work of Jurriaan Schrofer, designed by Pablo Desportes. It explores a font-driven image halftoning system, where typographic parameters directly affect image rendering and layout.
Conceived as an experimental environment, the tool includes internal-only parameters for experimentation and fine-tuning, with the goal of optimizing its public implementation within the interactive specimen for the release.

Research project carried out as part of the production of a variable font.

A collection of theoretical resources and personal experiments that try to identify, reproduce, and automate the process of cracks in typographic shapes caused by the sun.

Custom Typeface for Belgian Art & Design Affair
BADAFF is a unique fair for collectible artworks and design objects that are designed between the boundaries of these two worlds. Bringing art and design closer together creates a unique symbiosis. Sometimes one, sometimes the other, usually in between.

Variable Font Typewriter based on a grid inspired by the work of Jurriaan Schrofer. Each grid cell represents a letter. By manipulating the grid and the font variability, the user can generate or create new layouts. The user also has the ability to download the font files and their layouts.
(Development of a custom interactive tool as part of a larger project for an interactive type specimen to be published on Lineto)

2023, 304 pages
Binding: Sahoko Yoshino
Paper: Munken Cream 80g
Printing: Black and white (Magnetography)

What kinds of relationships can exist between poetry, natural forms, programming, and typography?
How can complex organic shapes be generated from a set of simple rules?
Through the study of organic structures in nature, how can we identify, extract, or model the systems that compose them, and then reproduce these systems using machines and algorithms to create new graphic forms?
How can image processing algorithms be used to generate new organic or typographic forms?
In what ways can randomness be used as a creative engine to guide the production of graphic signs within an algorithm or system?

Wittockiana — Musée des Arts du livre et de la reliure (WIP)
Web design + Web development, 2025-Now

The Wittockiana, also known as the Museum of Bookbinding and the Book Arts, is a museum located in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels.

Named after its founder, the Wittockiana was established by Michel Wittock, who assembled over the course of his life an impressive collection of books, manuscripts, and autographs.

The Wittockiana is Brussels’ museum dedicated to the book arts and bookbinding. Its collection, comprising nearly 3,000 works, is made up of unique books: each bears its own material history, the testimony of an artist or craftsperson, a bookbinder, or the personal mark of its author.

Image and video dithering tool developed for the visual identity of Woodcrafts and Textile Futures Developed by Jérémie Claes (@bureauclaes) in collaboration with Corbin Mahieu (@corbinmahieu) for Woodcrafts And Textile Futures (@watf.news)

Micro-édition
Réédition Pirate de l'essai de Pierre Tévanian "La clé des songes"

Au sens propre comme au figuré, Mulholland Drive est un film à clef. Il y a d’abord, dès le commencement, cette mystérieuse clef bleue trouvée par les deux héroïnes au fond d’un sac. Plus profondément, il y a le fait que cette clef elle-même doit être pensée, interprétée, déchiffrée par les spectateurs et spectatrices du film pour résoudre un mystère – et même plusieurs. Le mystère d’abord de l’identité perdue d’une des deux héroïnes devenue amnésique, pour qui la clef bleue est, avec une liasse de billets (trouvée au fond du même sac) et le double souvenir d’un nom de lieu (Mulholland Drive) et d’un nom de personne (Diane Selwyn), la seule trace à partir de laquelle une histoire peut être reconstituée.

Website for Woman Cave

Woman Cave is a multidisciplinary collective that explores gender-related issues in inhabited spaces. It operates as a design and architecture studio, publishes a biannual magazine titled Woman Journal, and also takes part in exhibitions while organizing workshops.

Type tool developed for the upcoming edition of BADAF (2026)
Based on the first version of the typeface, the tool allows the font to be animated and manipulated through a set of outline parameters. It enables the generation of new instances of the typeface by modifying its structure and behavior in real time.
(Developed in collaboration with Corbin Mahieu Studio)

(WIP) Web design & web development, with Rémy Dejans

Young European Artists is a nonprofit platform based in Brussels, dedicated to supporting emerging European artists. It provides the conditions artists need at the beginning of their careers: space to create, opportunities to develop, and visibility to share their work with the public.

Development of a type tool based on a vintage Olivetti typewriter advertisement.

This research presents an experimental web-based generative typography tool that explores the intersection of image processing and type design. While most generative type systems rely on vector-based approaches, this project deliberately adopts a different methodology by focusing on bitmap-based algorithms.

By working at the pixel level rather than through Bézier curves, the tool investigates how image-processing filters can be used as generative mechanisms for typographic form. This shift in approach raises questions about how typographic structures behave when they are no longer defined by continuous vector paths, but instead by discrete pixel operations.

Initially developed as part of a research project on variable fonts, Lumitype is a web-based tool designed to facilitate the creation of variable typographic specimens.

The tool offers a wide range of features, including file saving, video export, and the creation of multi-page specimens. It enables the production of dynamic and customizable typographic layouts, streamlining the documentation and presentation of variable typefaces.

A public release of a new version of the tool is currently under development, focusing on improved stability and expanded animation capabilities.