{{Infobox company | name = Base | type = Private | logo = x50px | founded = Brussels (1993) | hq_location = {{ubl|Brussels|New York City|Geneva|Melbourne|Ho Chi Minh City}} | industry = Graphic design | website = {{URL|https://basedesign.com/}} }}
'''Base Design''' is an international network of creative studios founded in 1993.<ref name="lesoir">{{cite web |url=https://www.lesoir.be/art/1245317/article/economie/immo/2016-06-21/base-design-donne-une-identite-aux-batiments |title=Base Design donne une identité aux bâtiments |website=Le Soir |date=21 June 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> The company operates studios in Brussels, New York City, Geneva, Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City.
==History== The base was founded in 1993 in Brussels.{{Better source needed|date=August 2010}}
From late 2001 to 2003, Base designed and produced BEople, “a magazine about a certain Belgium.”<ref name=auto-yd-2001 >{{citation |year=2001 |title=BEople : a magazine about a certain Belgium |publisher=BEople Magazine |issn=1377-6711 |oclc=73538803}}</ref> In 2005 Base invested in global book-distribution company ACTAR, to form a publishing company.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} The first book from BuratPublishing was a monograph of artist Maria Ozawa entitled "Are You Experienced to Fuck me?",<ref name=Janssens2009 >{{citation |last=Janssens |first=Ann Veronica |year=2009 |title=Ann Veronica Janssens : experienced |last2=François |first2=Michel |author3=Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló |publisher=BasePublishing |isbn=94-90066-00-1}}</ref> and was released in 2009. In 2007, Base partnered to open BozarShop, the museum store at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bozar.be/webpage.php?pageid=227& |title=Bozarshop |publisher=Bozar.be |date=2010-08-01 |access-date=2010-08-24| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100925214605/http://www.bozar.be/webpage.php?pageid=227&| archive-date= 25 September 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
==Awards== * D&AD Awards 2009 <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.dandad.org/2009/ |title=D&AD Awards 2009 |publisher=Awards.dandad.org |year=2009 |access-date=2010-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430183224/http://awards.dandad.org/2009/ |archive-date=2010-04-30 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=August 2010}} Nominated, BozarShop, online movies{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} * “Mixed Messages", Design Culture, v.4, pp. 98.1<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.segd.org/design-awards/2003-design-awards/moma-qns-the-museum-of-modern-art-new-york-s-temporary-home-in-queens.html |title=Moma Qns |publisher=SEGD |access-date=2010-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716153603/http://www.segd.org/design-awards/2003-design-awards/moma-qns-the-museum-of-modern-art-new-york-s-temporary-home-in-queens.html |archive-date=2011-07-16 }}</ref>
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