Founders Nana Esi and Sophie Keij’s creative practice seeks to explore and deepen (y)our understanding of the murky world we live in, engaged by surpassing disciplines and tweaking reality.
Drawing on 12 years of collaboration, they established themselves as specialists in the identity arena, delighted to reflect this profiency on any medium.
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Under the alter ego of their ever-evolving Brenda and through a decade of authentic co-creation, they have developed a taste and attunement for versatile, malleable ways of working.
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NANA ESI
Nana Esi
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is a designer, art director, contributor, mentor & type virtuoso.
Her design practice is both imaginative and research-based. Infused with a metamodernist approach, her work investigates embodied language, oscillating between semiotics and haptics. Contemplating on foresight she's inquisitive to configure the unanticipated, tweaking reality across any medium, material or space.
Her assimilation process aims to edit and engineer clever solutions with authenticity, embracing chaos and structure, confusion and clarity.
With her experience designing, collaborating and co-creating identities with a large variety of remarkable clients and institutions, Nana has established herself as a seasoned polymath. She's of Belgian-Ghanaian heritage, is based in Brussels, and currently teaches graphic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
Her design practice is both imaginative and research-based. Infused with a metamodernist approach, her work investigates embodied language, oscillating between semiotics and haptics. Contemplating on foresight she's inquisitive to configure the unanticipated, tweaking reality across any medium, material or space.
Her assimilation process aims to edit and engineer clever solutions with authenticity, embracing chaos and structure, confusion and clarity.
With her experience designing, collaborating and co-creating identities with a large variety of remarkable clients and institutions, Nana has established herself as a seasoned polymath. She's of Belgian-Ghanaian heritage, is based in Brussels, and currently teaches graphic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
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SOPHIE KEIJ
Sophie Keij
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is an independent designer based in Brussels. Working across a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines - visual art, music, and fashion - she specialises in art direction, typography, and consulting. Her practice explores how different types of content can be translated into visual identities, printed materials, spatial designs, and events.
Sophie's approach is spontaneous and intuitive, reflecting the fast pace of contemporary city life. Her aesthetics playfully reflect a childhood in Belgium in the nineties and early 2000s, resulting in a vivacious style strongly evoking mood and movement. Both through her graphic work and event-based interventions, she challenges the receiver to participate in unexpected ways, questioning what distinguishes a spectator from an audience.
Sophie has or had long-term collaborations with Beursschouwburg, Damian and the Love Guru, Wiels, and Celador, among others. Together with Nana Esi, Sophie co-founded the design collective Atelier Brenda, where they worked as a duo for 11 years. Today, they work independently under the umbrella of Brenda. In a parallel universe, Sophie creates bar installations and performances, independently and in collaboration with artist Agatha Wara, responding to the saturation of today's monoculture.
Furthermore, she co-runs the project "Kaotic with a K" with gallerist Priya Shetty, inviting artists to create T-shirts.
Sophie studied graphic and interior design at Sint-Lucas, KASK Ghent, and WDK Rotterdam.
Sophie's approach is spontaneous and intuitive, reflecting the fast pace of contemporary city life. Her aesthetics playfully reflect a childhood in Belgium in the nineties and early 2000s, resulting in a vivacious style strongly evoking mood and movement. Both through her graphic work and event-based interventions, she challenges the receiver to participate in unexpected ways, questioning what distinguishes a spectator from an audience.
Sophie has or had long-term collaborations with Beursschouwburg, Damian and the Love Guru, Wiels, and Celador, among others. Together with Nana Esi, Sophie co-founded the design collective Atelier Brenda, where they worked as a duo for 11 years. Today, they work independently under the umbrella of Brenda. In a parallel universe, Sophie creates bar installations and performances, independently and in collaboration with artist Agatha Wara, responding to the saturation of today's monoculture.
Furthermore, she co-runs the project "Kaotic with a K" with gallerist Priya Shetty, inviting artists to create T-shirts.
Sophie studied graphic and interior design at Sint-Lucas, KASK Ghent, and WDK Rotterdam.
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