About The Word

Launched in January 2008, The Word is a luxury and lifestyle bimestrial publication. A fresh and heavy-hitting take on neighbourhood life and global style, its purpose is to present a different facet to our beloved little country Belgium, one which goes beyond chocolate, beer and the Manneken Pis whilst also reporting back on some of the most exciting global goings-on in the world of design, style and ideas.

The magazine caters to an Internationalite and Urbanite audience: internationals living in Belgium, or Belgians with an international itch.

Industry profiles, fashion series, design features, travel guides, neighbourhood institutions, consumerist selections, visual essays and artistic "carte blanches". Crafted by a tight-knit group of writers, photographers, illustrators and designers, The Word is the missing link in today's bland and over-saturated media landscape.

Founder and publisher

Nicholas Lewis

Designers

Delphine Dupont + pleaseletmedesign

When we first approached her with the idea of launching a magazine, Delphine instantly thought to bring in Pierre and Damien of pleaseletmedesign to complete the skill set brought to the table. She is a La Cambre graduate whilst her males counterparts are luminaries from Liege's Saint-Luc Higher School of Arts. Together, they form an explossive trio of graphic designers with an attitude.  Delphine has since partnered up with Flore Van Ryn to create graphic agency face to face design whilst continuing to work with pleaseletmedesign on a wealth of projects - embellishing The Word being only one of them.

Web designers

Central Design

Central Design is a small studio founded by interactive designers Geoffroy Delobel and Ali Nassiri. The duo have been designing websites and other interactive stuff ever since the web ran at 28.8kbps.
www.centraldesign.be

Editorial Assistant

Photographers

Sarah Eechaut

We've taken the habit of calling Sarah our cover girl, such is the amount of covers she's nailed. Having captured everything from ailing football clubs and caravan parks to Peter Pan collectors and lazy eyed anti-heroes, she's travelled the country for us, often bringing back much more than we had bargained for.
www.saraheechaut.com

Yassin Serghini

Part of The Word team from day one, confirmed photographer and budding film-maker Yassin has done it all for the magazine: perched atop a crane to get the perfect highway shot, down on his knees for a beauty shoot or even digging deep underneath Brussels' canal, our man isn't one to back down - although the starting line might at first be difficult to cross. They say half of all good photography is access, and Yassin gets it.

Urike Biets

Bubbly to the bone, Ulrike has slowly but surely become the missing link in The Word circus. A take-no-prisoners kind of lady, you're as likely to find her in the moshpit of some hardcore concert as you are shooting the next catalogue of some oh-so-trendy fashion brand. For us, she's done everything from charting the making-of a nightshop feast to capturing scared faces.
www.ulrikebiets.com

Illustrators

Virassamy

Originally from Bordeaux, Virassamy moved to Paris then Brussels, where we were lucky enough to catch him during his 4-year stay. His distinctive style, shifting from instinctive no-fuss drawings to diligently nervous illustrations, has become a trademark of The Word. Virassamy relocated to Berlin, but his ballpoint penned witty visions will most definitely not leave our pages for now.
www.virassamy.org