EXPO / AWARDS

EXHIBITIONS, NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS

2024

EXPO BETWEEN LAYERS
Exploring form and typography
PITOU & WALDA VERBAENEN

13/07-28/07/2024 – galerij van het Refugiehuis Hasselt  – Belgium

Video impression of this exhibition: LINK

2023

EXPO Phonotype – Bibliotheek Beringen 
25/03-30/04/2023

EXPO Phonotype – Bibliotheek Herselt / VTC de Mixx
20/02-19/03/2023

30/01-30/06 – EXPO Rosart, Revival van een lettersnijder – NHA Haarlem

2022

EXPO Phonotype – Bibliotheek Bree
01/09-30/09/2022

Award winning project SAMSUNG DESIGN PRIZE 2022 by ‘IF Design Talent Awards 2022‘ – Germany
‘Braille meets emoticons’
16/06  – Awards Ceremony – Valencia, Spain

Award winning project ‘IF Design Talent Awards 2022‘ – Germany
‘Braille meets emoticons’
16/06  – Awards Ceremony – Valencia, Spain

EXPO ‘Henry Van de Velde Awards – Bozar, Brussels – Belgium
‘Braille meets emoticons’
09/02 – 10/04.

Award winning project ‘Henry Van de Velde Design Research – Belgium
‘Braille meets emoticons’
08/02  – Awards Ceremony – Bozar, Brussels

2021

Selected Project & EXPO Global Grad Show 2021 – Dubai
‘Braille meets emoticons’
08/11 2021 – 07/11 2022  – EXPO Interactive online

EXPO ‘Architecture in the Foyer’ – Solarlux, Melle – Germany
‘Braille meets emoticons’ & Phonotype’
30/09 – 01/10/2021

Award winning project ‘Design That Educates Award 2021 – Gold prize of Universal Design – Germany
‘Braille meets emoticons’
30/09  – Awards Ceremony

Design That Educates Award 2021

Award winning project ‘TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence‘ Type Directors Club – New York
‘Braille meets emoticons’
26/03
Showed in Annual ‘The World’s Best Typography’
EXPO during 2021-2022 (United States, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam).

2020

Award winning project ‘STA100‘ Society of Typographic Arts
(Judges choice: JUAN PASTOR ROVIRA) – Chicago
‘Braille meets emoticons’
21/11

Award winning project ‘Design That Educates Award 2020 Solarlux choice‘ – Germany
12/11-13/11  Awards Ceremony & EXPO

EXPO ‘Phonotype – Walda Verbaenen’ – Bibliotheek (Library) Genk, Belgium 2020
06/07/2020 – 09/01/2021

EXPO ‘We are the next generation’ – C-Mine Genk, Belgium 2020
04/04 – 17/05 – uitgesteld/postponed due to COVID 19

2019

Nominated for the ‘Klasseprijs 2019 ‘
02/12 – #klasseprijs2019

Selected for EXPO ‘We are the next generation’ – Kortrijk, Belgium 2019
24-27/10 – #wearethenextgeneration

Selected for EXPO ‘The Global Grad Show’, Dubai 2019
10-14/11 – https://www.globalgradshow.com/projects/phonotype/

Award winning project ‘C-mine Student Award’ – Genk (Belgium)
25/06
This award includes, in addition to a prize, a collaborative project that will be set up together with the city of Genk within which Phonotype will be used into a reading project and tested.

Nominated project ‘Wanatoeprice’ (Belgium)
15/06
The Wanatoeprice is the annual competition of the graduation projects of PXL-MAD School of Arts Hasselt, LUCA School of Arts Campus C-mine Genk and the Faculty of Architecture and Art from the University of Hasselt.

The jury report wrote:
“The simplest – a letter – can be an obstacle or an opportunity to live and understand each other at the same time. As a letter designer, Walda succeeds in making language understandable. Her work contains countless applications.”