Volume 05 — Issue 01 Neighbourhood Life + Global Style Neighbourhood Clockwork orange Life Bright lights Style New world order Music Future sounds Culture Tomorrow’s talent + The start-up special The orange album The editor’s letter 3 Publisher and editor-in-chief Had you asked me some twenty years ago what the future would look like today, Nicholas Lewis my guess is that fiction would have been miles away from reality. Where are the triple-breasted cyborgs? The teleportation? The daily commutes to the moon Editorial assistant and back? The intergalactic war games? Most of all, where’s the world peace and Sarah Schug eradication of AIDS some self-righteous hairy hippie promised us back in ‘85? The future, you see, often takes on a life of its own, veering to the left when you Design thought it’d turn to the right. Now I’m not saying humanity hasn’t taken a huge leap facetofacedesign + forward over the last three decades, it’s just that it hasn’t turned out to be nearly as pleaseletmedesign exciting as what the comic books predicted. Yes, solar panels and ethanol fuels are all great for the planet, but they aren’t exactly flying skateboards now are they? Writers Julie Kavanagh So it is with a certain degree of caution that we tackled this edition, the orange Rose Kelleher album. Its buzzword being ‘the future’, we decided to document the trends playing Nicholas Lewis out in front of us rather than make predictions for (a better) tomorrow. Now, what Simon McDermott exactly does that mean? Philippe Pourhashemi Sarah Schug Well, for starters, we immortalised the language of the future with some pointy humour (OMG I heart these new words LOL on page 19), we profiled five under Photographers/Illustrators 18s with particularly high IQs (The word on high potentials, page 26) and we Toon Aerts took a close look at the latest trend that is collaborative consumption (Collaborate. Valentine De Cort Cooperate. Consume on page 30). We rounded up a team of industry players Sarah Eechaut for our style section, getting the discussion going on what it takes to make it as a Pauline Miko designer nowadays (Welcome to the jungle, page 38) whilst our music section saw Ismael Moumin us interview sci-pop siren Grimes (page 54), hip hop hero Homeboy Sandman Melika Ngombe (page 56) and the promising home-grown trio of Dalai Lama Renaissance (think Grégoire Pleynet Junior Boys and The XX, page 58). In our culture briefing, we aimed the spotlight Joke De Wilde on a photographer who’s captured our hearts and minds of late (Kelly De Block, Virassamy page 82), handed our portfolio pages over to Pauline Miko for her on-going series on red heads (page 84) and, finally, engaged in a little celebratory burning session Intern (Fire starter, page 90). For our special, we delved into the world of start-ups, Tanguy Pinte profiling a seasoned failure, interviewing a dotcom survivor, handpicking six of the Charline Stoelzaed most promising Belgian start-ups and asking experts to dish out their advice to the new entrepreneurs out there. We’ve also brought some minor changes to the magazine’s layout, hope you like it. And do pay us a visit on thewordmagazine.be, our revamped website that is looking For subscriptions (5 issues) very much like what the future of the web should look like if you ask me. 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Aerts© Toon Ian Clement 4 The contents Neighbourhood STyLe The starT-up SpeciaL 19 34 69 OMG I heart all these new words… Orange Crush Amélie Despot, dotcom veteran 21 38 70 Charlatans in cyberspace Welcome to the jungle This is the end 22 46 74 No place like home A brave new world And the award goes to… Life MuSic culture 26 58 82 High potentials Dalai Lama Renaissance Kelly De Block 30 60 84 Collaborate. Cooperate. Consume Orange amps Pauline Miko 6 The contributors It’s a Word’s world Pierre Gorzala Julie Kavanagh Esther Wouters Charline Stoelzaed stylist writer hair and make-up artist intern PaGeS PaGe PaGeS PaGe 46 — 53 22 46 — 53 23 abouT abouT abouT abouT Having studied photography, Originally from Ireland, the Brussels-based make-up artist After rather short pit stops in advertising and then fashion Brussels blow-in admits she’s Esther knows her stuff. With her architecture and audiovisual design at reputed ESMOD, slightly amused to be celebrating long lasting experience in the studies, Charline – who lives in Pierre’s style is as multi-faceted her fourth spring here. As for so fashion world, honed amongst Antwerp and studies journalism as his influences. After a few many, Brussels was supposed to others in London, she’s a true in Ghent – moved on to what her twists and turns, he decided be a stop en route to someplace rock to build on. In her free heart really beats for: writing. to return to what speaks to else – but it wasn’t long before time she drops the mascara and During her 10 week stint at him the most: the beauty of a Julie got pulled into the city’s lipstick for a brush and paints on The Word she quickly became photograph, which he knows how multi-lingual cultural swirl. canvases instead of faces. a key component of our team, to skillfully uplift. filing pieces for our print as well TaSk TaSk as web editions. Yes, our interns TaSk Julie got all homey for her debut The hair and make-up work do more than just make coffee. This edition’s fashion story was at The Word and uncovered the Esther did for this edition’s Pierre’s first job for The Word, growing trend and a newfound fashion shoot hit exactly the TaSk and with sober but visionary appeal of staying at home – be it right tone by keeping the For this edition we sent Charline shapes and silhouettes he for work, dinners or education. natural beauty of the models as on a mission to speak to refugees managed to perfectly capture its After all, there really is no untouched and virgin as possible. who’s only identity is an orange futuristic theme. place like home. card, their entrance ticket to QuoTe Belgium – a quite disheartening QuoTe QuoTe “Although I still believe in task, considering their saddening “I turn to brands that touch me “Researching the home trend, fairytales, for this shoot I got my stories. and have strong visual universes, it struck me how ‘home-y’ life inspiration from a Terry Gilliam which is something I really like has become. These days find movie.” QuoTe to play with.” me composting daily, making “It’s intriguing: the same religion soups weekly and baking… well, that forces refugees to flee their let’s just say more regularly than home country is what keeps them I used to!” on their feet in Belgium.” 8 The orangeboard 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 01. With advice such as ‘Emulate the drug dealers’ and ‘Meetings are toxic’, 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s Rework proved the perfect starting point for our start-up special. / 02. Heavy-rotation on Word FM these last few weeks: Pumpkinhead’s Orange moon over Brooklyn, Can’s Tago Mago and Sun Ra’s. / 03. This edition’s literary picks: John F. Szwed’s Sun Ra biography Space is the place and Aldous Huxley’s brave new world (the title of our fashion story which begins at page 46). / 04. Brussels-based artist Grégory Decock’s 100% off stickers. They actually do work in certain unvigilant supermarkets. / 05. The orange lighter, this edition’s fi re starter. Turn to page 90 for proof. / 06. What set the tone for our home-bound feature (‘No place like home’, page 22) / 07. Veuve Cliquot’s signature label, the bottle we’ll pop open the minute we send this baby to print. All photography Pauline Miko. Neighbourhood 9 Belgium Rise aNd Shine Antwerp’s photography museum FoMu intro- duces a new series of exhibitions in a bid to put forward a carefully chosen selection of Belgium’s most talented young photogra- phers. ‘Young Belgian photography’ kicks off with the works of up-and-comers Sarah Carlier and Lara Mennes. Carlier, based in the Netherlands, strikes a chord with her inti- mate portraits of a Romanian family, sketch- ing a captivating story of life, love and death. The images of Lara Mennes from Antwerp however lack direct human presence, setting out for a search of memories left behind in abandoned buildings. Driven by her fascina- tion for cultural history and architecture the winner of the prestigious ‘Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge’ explores three desolate © Sarah Carlier / LhGWR buildings with her camera, vividly capturing the leftover traces and fragments of the past.