Tom Andries

Tom Andries (b. Leuven 1969) is a Belgian multidisciplinary designer and contemporary artist. His main body of work consists of monochromes painted in heavily textured black ink. Tom uncovers the essence and hidden beauty of typography, abstracting basic geometric forms from letters. Trained as a typographer and graphic designer, Tom also founded a thriving branding agency called Today, which he is still passionately running. Together with his partner, the artist Christl Martens, and their vizsla dog Hoedan, he lives and works in the stillness of his self-built modernist home called Oito house, on the edge of a slope in the middle of the woods of central Belgium.

Studying graphic design, advertising and typography at MAD Faculty in Hasselt, Belgium, Tom was mentored by the educator and type-designer Luk Mestdagh. On leaving college, he started his career in graphic design and branding, learning the tricks of the trade first hand from creative director Jeremy Dawkins. 5 years on, Tom became the Creative Director of Redstar Design Antwerp (a WWP-company). Tom has always been the instigator of original concepts, challenging the laws of tradition. Whilst at Redstar he created the iconic “A” identity for the city of Antwerp which was a breakthrough in the world of Belgian design. In 2007 he founded Today, a strategic design agency with a clear focus on creating and developing future-proofed identities and brands.