About
Base BRUSSELS
is where it all began, and never quite settled
Base Brussels is the motherhouse, founded in the 90s at La Cambre Art School by Dimitri Jeurissen and Thierry Brunfaut, who proved design could be conceptual without losing common sense. Operating today from a renovated former hat factory in downtown Brussels, it serves as the European hub of the network, projecting influence and momentum across borders. Specializing in non-specializing, BRU moves fluidly across sectors, combining research, narrative intelligence, and human-centered processes that have shaped the entire Base group and the brands it partners with. Its work spans cultural institutions such as KANAL Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, La Monnaie Opera as well as brands including Birkenstock, Caudalie, and Maison Dandoy. Anchored in storytelling and wit rather than a defined visual style, the studio is now led by a new generation of Basers rewriting the original script.
Meet the basers
Jens can't leave a new piece of software half-learned. Driven by genuine curiosity, he goes deep on whatever catches him. At fourteen, it was a camera, and it made photography his first creative outlet. What pulled him in was the figuring out: composition, technique, the reason a frame works. Eventually, the still frame gave way to things that moved, and motion design became the place where image-making and technical exploration finally overlapped. To no great surprise: toddler Jens could sit for hours in front of the washing machine, captivated by the spectacle of turning laundry. A first taste of motion that, looking back, explained everything.
Somewhere between chaos and order, creative freeflow and optimized processes, long hikes in nature and the screen, he found his sweet spot at BaseBRU as a motion designer. He mixes music for the joy of it, and whether anyone hears it is a detail. His one true soft spot: border collies. To which he's allergic. Also a detail.
