Studio Michel Welfringer is a multidisciplinary design studio working between Paris, Brussels, and Luxembourg. We develop visual identities, motion and editorial design, we work for leading film festivals, art and literary publishers, cultural institutions, architects, and assist artists in their creative process.
We regularly collaborate with a professional network of motion designers, web developers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers as well as europe’s finest printing factories.
Regluar collaborators: Antonin Waterkeyn, Jeanne Pommaux, Nicolas Rome, Sébastien Sans, Jonathan Steelandt, Atelier KZG, Charles Paulicevich, Lola Ylla-Somers, …
Previous collaborators: Maxime Dendraen, Marion Lacoste, Fabrice Dehaeseleer, Jana Katanic
Site development : Nicolas Rome
Studio Photos : © Jonathan Steelandt & Studio Michel Welfringer, unless specified elsewhere.
Projects
| Title | Client | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
Luxfilmfest | Cinema, Culture, Education | 2025 | |
aBahn | Cinema | 2023 | |
ALL Schrëftsteller*innen asbl | Literature, Guid, Non-profit | 2022 | |
SCRIPT, Ministère de l'éducation nationale Luxembourg | Publishing, Education | 2024, 2023 | |
Bernard Venet | Art | 2019 | |
Centrale générale FGTB Liège-Huy-Waremme | Workers Union, Historic, Photography, Publishing | 2020 | |
aBahn, arte creative, Arte France, Tarantula | Fashion, Documentary, Web series | 2017 | |
Lëtz' Arles | Photography, Art, Les rencontres d'Arles, Publishing | 2017 | |
Hydre éditions | Publishing | 2024 | |
Hydre éditions | Publishing, Literature | 2017, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 | |
D'Lëtzebuerger Land Editions | Publishing, Culture, Journalism | 2024 | |
Cinema, Art, Culture, Education, Food, Music | 2009, 2025 | ||
Ministère de l'éducation nationale Luxembourg, SCRIPT | Education | 2020 | |
aBahn, arte creative, Arte France, Local Film, Ma drogue à moi, Okta Film, Otis Lucas, Red Lion, Tarantula | Cinema, Culture, Documentary, Fashion, Web series | 2025, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | |
Otis Lucas | Cinema | 2022 | |
Quinzaine des cinéastes, aBahn, Altitude 100, Cercle Cité, Enja, Film Fund Luxembourg, Grooveattack, Irfan, Luxfilmfest, Mudam, O’Brother Distribution, Okta Film, Otis Lucas, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Red Lion, Tent records, Wagram | Cinema, Art, Culture, Education, Music | 2025, 2009 | |
Quinzaine des cinéastes | Cinema, Culture | 2025 | |
Quinzaine des réalisateurs | Cinema, Culture | 2025, 2009 | |
Meta-Morphosis, Denis Meyers | Publishing, Art | 2018 |
Distinctions
| Year | Title | Prize | Project |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | German Design Awards | Winner: Excellent Communications Design / Books | |
| 2025 | Luxembourg Design Awards | GOLD : Best Editorial Design | |
| 2025 | Luxembourg Design Awards | Special Mention : Sustainable Design | |
| 2025 | Luxembourg Design Awards | GOLD : Best Print Design | |
| 2025 | Luxembourg Design Awards | SILVER : Identity Design | |
| 2024 | European Design Awards | SILVER : Book Cover Series | |
| 2024 | National competition for the Passport redesign launched by the Passport office / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg | Laureate | Discontinued project |
| 2023 | Luxembourg Design Awards | GOLD : Best Editorial Design | |
| 2023 | Luxembourg Design Awards | SILVER : Corporate Design | |
| 2019 | European Design Awards | FINALIST : Best Artistic catalogue | |
| 2019 | Luxembourg Design Awards | GOLD : Best Editorial Design | |
| 2019 | Luxembourg Design Awards | Jury Mention : Print Design | Luxfilmfest |
| 2019 | Luxembourg Design Awards | Nominee : Editorial Design | |
| 2016 | Lëtzebuerger Bicherpräis | Coup de Cœur du Jury | |
| 2004 | Prix coup de Cœur des Amis de La Cambre (Bruxelles) | Laureate | B®USH – gotoAndPlay(“W A R”); |
Publications
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Grafikmagazin #2 2024 – Education, « Das ist ja Allerhand », C. Moosmann. Phoenix Verlag, München |
| 2024 | La diffusion de la beauté – À la découverte de la bibliothèque personnelle de Raymon Mehlen. p. 214-241. in Fundstücke/Trouvailles 6. Edité par Ludivine Jehin & Daniela Lieb / Centre National de Littérature, Luxembourg. 2024. |
| 2023 | Slanted Magazine #42 – Books, Slanted Publishers, Karlsruhe |
| 2023 | Design-A-Book. Recherches & créations en Belgique, 2023, Wittockiana / Atelier du Livre de Mariemont |
| 2023 | d’Lëtzebuerger Land, 17.11.2023 « Wir ändern wieder was », Peter Feist |
| 2020 | Loop – 10 ans de création vidéo aux Rotondes, 2020, Éditions Rotondes, Luxembourg |
| 2019 | Best in Creativity, 2019, Luxembourg Design Awards |
| 2017 | Page Magazine #345, 02.2017, « Typoreise Belgien – Font Frites », K-P. Staudinger, Ebner Verlag GmbH, Hamburg |
| 2014 | Dee Magazine #3, 2014, Design Friends Luxembourg |
| 2012 | Los Logos 6, août 2012, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin |
| 2010 | d’Lëtzebuerger Land, 11.11.2010 « Typographe des temps modernes », Ian de Toffoli |
| 2009 | Irréverent Magazine, numéros III, IV et VI, de 2008 à 2009, Amalia Diffusion, Paris |
| 2007 | Web design index 7, 2007, Pepin Press / Agile Rabbit Editions |
| 2007 | Étapes N°145, juin 2007, Éditions Pyramid, Paris |
| 2006 | Tres Logos, décembre 2006, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin |
| 2006 | gras.free, numéros 0, 1 et 2, de 2006 à 2008, autoédition, Paris |
| 2004 | Étapes N°110, juillet 2004, Éditions Pyramid, Paris |
Group Exhibitions
| Year | Title | Place | Curated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Juvenilia - 100 ans de typographie et de livres à La Cambre | Wittockiana - Brussels | Sara De Bondt |
| 2026 | Two-O-Eight: Designing Voices | Vienna Design Week Festival Zentrale | Anna_Loporcaro & Design Luxembourg |
| 2023 | Design-A-Book, contemporary book design in Belgium | Wittockiana - Brussels | Géraldine David, Sofiane Laghouati |
| 2023 | Luxembourg Design Awards 2023 - laureate show | Rotondes - Luxembourg | Design Luxembourg |
| 2021 | FLOW | Cercle Cité - Luxembourg | Cercle Cité |
| 2020 | Design Decameron | Cercle Cité - Luxembourg | Design Luxembourg & Design Friends |
| 2019 | Loop – 10 ans de création vidéo aux Rotondes | Rotondes - Luxembourg | Rotondes |
| 2018 | Too Drunk To Fuck (Loop Waterkeyn & Welfringer) | Rotondes - Luxembourg | Rotondes |