Atelier ter Bekke & Behage

Atelier ter Bekke & Behage was founded by two graphic designers, Evelyn ter Bekke and Dirk Behage, after they met in Paris in 1997. Dedicated to creative graphic design, the Atelier works across the field of visual communication.

A monograph entitled ‘Order / Disorder’, published by Éditions Dilecta, has been released in 2023. It brings together all the Atelier’s graphic work from the last 25 years.

Le Signe, the national graphic design centre in Chaumont, mounted a retrospective exhibition of the Atelier’s work in 2022.

Since 2017, the Atelier has been designing the institutional graphic identity and communications for each season of the Odéon – Théâtre de l’Europe in Paris.

The Atelier has been responsible since 2018 for the institutional graphic identity and seasonal communication of Le Théâtre – Scène Nationale de Saint-Nazaire.

Since 2014, the Atelier has been developing the graphic identity for Théâtre Ouvert – Centre National des Dramaturgies Contemporaines in Paris.

In 2011, the Atelier began their collaboration with the Musée National Adrien Dubouché in Limoges, developing typography and signage based on the technical constraints of porcelain.

The Atelier designed the signage for the new Palais de Justice in Aix-en-Provence.

Since 2021, the Atelier has been working on the visual identity and signage for the new Village Charlot community centre in the town of Beausoleil.

From 1996 to 2018, the Atelier was responsible for the institutional graphic identity, communications and exhibition signage for the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.

From 2009 to 2017, the Atelier designed the corporate graphic identity and communications for each season of La Colline – Théâtre National in Paris.

Between 2013 and 2019, the Atelier designed the corporate graphic identity and communications for each season of Le Rive Gauche – Scène Conventionnée pour la Danse in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray.

As part of Une saison graphique 2012 in Le Havre, the atelier was invited to take part in a retrospective exhibition at the contemporary art centre Le Portique.

Evelyn ter Bekke and Dirk Behage have maintained a friendly and professional relationship with French architect Marc Barani and his studio since 2009.

In 2012, the Atelier was asked to design the graphic identity and signage for the Biennale d’Architecture Agora in Bordeaux, curated by architect Marc Barani.

The atelier was in charge of communications for MAC VAL exhibitions from 2008 to 2012.

Since 2008, the atelier has been working with the Jean Lenoir publishing house on its ‘Le Nez du Vin’ and ‘Le Nez du Whisky’ publications.

The relationship with Henri and Marinette Cueco was established in 2007.

Between 2004 and 2007, the Atelier designed the corporate graphic identity and signage for the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec building in Albi.

Between 2003 and 2005, the Atelier designed the corporate graphic identity and museum signage for the Musée National de Préhistoire in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac.

From 1997 to 2001, the Atelier worked with the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France on its communication for classical music concerts.

Until 2005, the Atelier was in charge of visual communications for Toulouse-based paper manufacturer Job Parilux.