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About

Camille Circlude, author of La typographie post-binaire, is an artist, designer, and researcher exploring how language, gender, and type design intersect to imagine post-binary visual forms.

They holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies, is an active member of the Bye Bye Binary collective and works as a graphic designer based in Brussels. They also teaches at the erg (École de recherche graphique, Brussels).

Camille Circlude is currently working on a research project entitled Typographie post-binaire: recherche sur les usages, les appropriations et la pollinisation des fontes, funded by the Fonds de la Recherche en Art (FRArt/F.R.S.-FNRS) with Enz@ Le Garrec.

Camille uses a reflective approach to experiment critical pedagogical practices that they experiment by initiating workshops : Summer School Art Passing Trans*, Trans//Border, Teaching To Transgress, Teaching To Transgress Toolbox, Bye Bye Binary,…

Camille Circlude is a graphic designer at Kidnap Your Designer, which they run with Damien Safie and Enz@ Le Garrec. The studio specialises in graphic design for architecture, design, music, film, theatre, associations, arts and culture.

They also co-initiated the We Are Graphic Designers collective, which raises awareness among graphic design clients of the importance of graphic design culture and the quality of public commissions.

Black Socks lateral view Black Socks front view
Grey Socks lateral view Grey Socks front view
Pink Socks lateral view Pink Socks front view
Grey Scarf Verso Grey Scarf Recto
Black Scarf Recto Black Scarf Verso
Black Scarf Recto 2023 Black Scarf Verso 2023
Scan Scarf Black Scan Scarf Black Scan Scarf Black Scan Scarf Black Scan Scarf Black Scan Scarf Black

Shop

Each purchase fuels a circular economy: after covering all costs (production, design, communication, packaging), every profit goes straight back into research. For this collection, it’ll help complete the Skunk Pudding typeface, so it can be shared and redistributed for everyone under CUTE (Conditions for Engaging Typographic Use) at the end of the process.

A percentage of our profits from every purchase goes to the Trans Solidarity Fund Belgium, supporting essential mutual aid.
And with the launch of this online shop, folks who live far from big cities can finally get their hands on these pieces — and be absolutely fabulous from wherever they are.


Artworks

Active in graphic design for several years, Camille Circlude now explores personal and collective artistic forms beyond commissioned work, driven by their political commitments within Bye Bye Binary. Their practice takes on the stance of artistic, feminist, lgbtqia+, militant research and becomes a playground for dissident, poetic, and political visual forms of expression.

Books

Camille Circlude, La typographie post-binaire. Au-delà de l’écriture inclusive, B42, Paris, 2023.

Comment dépasser la binarité de genre caractéristique de la langue française ? Cet ouvrage revient d’abord sur l’apparition des écritures dites inclusives et non-binaires, pour esquisser les prémices d’une approche post‑binaire de la typographie permettant à l’écriture d’embrasser le vaste prisme des genres, au-delà de la binarité.


Disponible chez B42


Bye Bye Binary, Imaginaires typo·graphiques post-binaires, n°é·e, Surfaces Utiles, Bruxelles, 2025.

Proposer des écrits situés, par les personnes concernées, est essentiel pour la constitution des archives vivantes d’une pratique typo·graphique qui visibilise les personnes minorisées. La revue Bye Bye Binary alimente ainsi le débat sur la charge politique du design graphique, du langage, des représentations des corps et des identités.


Disponible chez Surfaces Utiles (premier numéro épuisé)


Articles

Camille Circlude & Enz@ Le Garrec, «La politique du·de la dégradé·e», DÉCOR, n°4 Couleurs, Ensad, Paris, 2026.

La revue explore les liens intimes entre couleur et vivant : langage chromatique des humains et non-humains, phénomènes d’attirance ou de signal, cycles naturels et jeux d’impermanence où la couleur devient mouvement, lumière et matière.

Disponible auprès de l’École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL

Camille Circlude & Katharina Brenner, “An Opportunity to Challenge the Status Quo. Camille Circlude on institutional transformation with the Teaching to Transgress* Research Group”, Futuress, 2025.

Camille Circlude & Enz@ Le Garrec, « Iels arrivent ! », n°107 Alien, Rekto Verso, 2025.

Camille Circlude, « Affects et émotions dans le design graphique. Love & Rage, au-delà de l’esthétique », Belgian Institut of Graphic Design, 2025.

Axxenne & Camille Circlude, “Hidden in Plain Sight. How does queerness appropriate and create new codes to find living spaces», Gender Language, 2024.

Axxenne, Camille Circlude et Enz@ Le Garrec, « Ces colères qui nous honorent », Festina Lente (Hâte-toi lentement), n°2, La Criée, Rennes, 2024.

Camille Circlude, « L’école bâtarde », La Surface démange, Villa Arson, 2023. Texte ponctué des commentaires d’Axxenne, Enz@ Le Garrec, H·Alix Sanyas et Laurence Rassel.

Camille Circlude & Christella Bigingo, « De la nécessité d’étudier la lisibilité des nouvelles formes typographiques non-binaires (ligatures et glyphes inclusives), les alternatives au point médian et au doublet principalement observés dans les milieux activistes, queer et trans-pédé·e-bi·e-gouin·es », Typo-inclusive.net, Bruxelles, ULB / UCL, 16 janvier 2021.

[online : typo-inclusive.net]

Camille Circlude, “How to Hack Study Regulations”, Mai Feminism, 2020.