Animated Design Museum Brussels logo in white condensed capitals on black, identity by SIGN

Design Museum Brussels

Design Museum Brussels

Client

Design Museum Brussels

YEAR

2020

Project type

Turning a name change into a statement of maturity.

TEAM

Astrid Verdeyen
Carole Mannekens

Project overview

After five years as ADAM, the museum chose a new name: Brussels Design Museum. And a new name, done properly, isn't just a rename. It's a declaration of what the place has grown into: more ambition, more maturity, and enough confidence to say exactly what it is without decoration.

Our read was simple: less is more. So the identity plays it straight: direct, structural, built around a single right angle that does double duty, giving the whole system both dynamism and a bit of play, without ever raising its voice.

After five years as ADAM, the museum chose a new name: Brussels Design Museum. And a new name, done properly, isn't just a rename. It's a declaration of what the place has grown into: more ambition, more maturity, and enough confidence to say exactly what it is without decoration.

Our read was simple: less is more. So the identity plays it straight: direct, structural, built around a single right angle that does double duty, giving the whole system both dynamism and a bit of play, without ever raising its voice.

Design Museum Brussels logo on the museum's glass and red steel façade
Design Museum Brussels logo on the museum's glass and red steel façade
Animated black Design Museum Brussels tote bag with the logo in white
Three black Design Museum Brussels flags, each carrying one word of the name
Speaker in silhouette at a lectern before the projected Design Museum Brussels logo
Black t-shirt with the Design Museum Brussels name printed vertically
White Design Museum Brussels business card on a grey background
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Brussels

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SIGN is a Brussels-based branding studio based. We specialise in brand strategy, brand positioning, visual identity, verbal identity, editorial design, digital identity, design systems and creative direction. We work with cultural institutions, hospitality brands, public organisations and businesses seeking distinctive, long-lasting identities.

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SIGN is an independent branding studio based in Brussels, Belgium. We specialise in brand strategy, brand positioning, visual identity, verbal identity, editorial design, digital identity, design systems and creative direction. We work with cultural institutions, hospitality brands, public organisations and businesses seeking distinctive, long-lasting identities.

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Brussels

SIGN is an independent branding studio based in Brussels, Belgium. We specialise in brand strategy, brand positioning, visual identity, verbal identity, editorial design, digital identity, design systems and creative direction. We work with cultural institutions, hospitality brands, public organisations and businesses seeking distinctive, long-lasting identities.

Interested in working with us?

SIGN is a Brussels-based branding studio based. We specialise in brand strategy, brand positioning, visual identity, verbal identity, editorial design, digital identity, design systems and creative direction. We work with cultural institutions, hospitality brands, public organisations and businesses seeking distinctive, long-lasting identities.

© SIGN 2026
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Brussels

Interested in working with us?

SIGN is a Brussels-based branding studio based. We specialise in brand strategy, brand positioning, visual identity, verbal identity, editorial design, digital identity, design systems and creative direction. We work with cultural institutions, hospitality brands, public organisations and businesses seeking distinctive, long-lasting identities.

Our office

SIGN is an independent branding studio based in Brussels, Belgium. We specialise in brand strategy, brand positioning, visual identity, verbal identity, editorial design, digital identity, design systems and creative direction. We work with cultural institutions, hospitality brands, public organisations and businesses seeking distinctive, long-lasting identities.

© SIGN 2026