About
Base Saigon
is where Vietnamese brands learn to travel
Founded as Rice by Chí-An De Leo and Joshua Breidenbach in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011, before the market was ready and before the rules were written, Base Saigon was built on the belief that design and storytelling can help Vietnamese brands define themselves and move through the world. Today, in a country accelerating in real time and anchoring the network in Asia, the studio — based in a modernist 1960s house in central Saigon — positions local brands globally and global brands locally with cultural precision. Base Saigon shapes brands including Marou Chocolate, Pizza 4P’s, UNICEF Vietnam, Uniqlo, Uber and Baemin, and, beyond client work, its team of thirty creatives invests in design education, local events and publishing. Not as a side project, but as a responsibility.
Meet the basers
Seb grew up in Antwerp. A city where heritage meets creative energy. Restless and curious, he was the kind of kid who built, drew, and dismantled things just to see how they worked. That instinct to explore and understand still drives him today.
As a managing director at BaseSGN, Seb helps shape an environment where creativity and collaboration thrive. He works in the space between structure and freedom, turning clarity into possibility. For him, design is a way to connect: between people, ideas, and the systems that hold them together.
Outside the studio, Seb stays in motion. He races, tinkers with engines, and experiments with new ideas alongside his daughter – always chasing the details that make things move.
