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            Jan S'heeren (b. 2001) is a graphic and digital designer working across visual communication, 3D, motion and generative design.

XOXO, Jessica & Morane

Podcast announcement animation
2024
Motion
3D
Commissioned by JEZ! Belgium (by DPG Media)
A mixed-media teaser introducing XOXO Jessica & Morane, the new podcast from youth platform JEZ!. Built from real scrapbook scans sent by the hosts — filled with stickers, clippings, and handwritten notes — the piece reconstructs their physical prep material into a digital 3D scene. All physical assets were digitized and animated to retain the improvised energy of the source material. As the first public reveal of the podcast, the animation sets the tone: tactile, instinctive, and stitched together from real fragments, just like the show itself.

enigma
Typeface

2023
Typeface
Type specimen
420 x 594 mm
32 pages
Laser print
enigma is a typeface constructed through a hybrid process — part analogue, part digital — built around the logic of shape grammars. The letterforms emerge from a series of painted gestures, made using a custom-built tool designed to manipulate paint on paper. From this source material, each lowercase glyph was drawn by isolating and refining specific curves, spikes, and contours, preserving the tension of the original forms while imposing a new structure.
            The result is a typeface defined by contrast: sharp yet fluid, deliberate yet irregular. Its glyphs are designed to overlap and interlock, allowing for unexpected ligatures and merged forms that behave less like letters and more like symbiotic shapes. Though the texture of the brushstrokes was removed during digitization, the typeface retains a trace of its physical origin: hundreds of imperfect anchor points inherited from the original, hand-made marks.
            The backslanted posture and sharp yet fluid geometry of the letterforms contributed to its name. enigma is both readable and highly unstable; a system of forms that resists settling, shaped as much by accident as by intention.

A(u)pex

Publication
2022
Editorial design
210 x 297 mm
64 pages
Mixed media
A(u)PEX traces how a single reference point can deconstruct into a layered design language. Built through a methodical process that blends illustration, digital work, typographic systems, and compositional experimentation, the publication shifts between control and instinct. Image, type, and shape continually reconfigure one another. Object becomes prompt for subconscious practice: a site where core design principles are tested through constant transformation. Less a narrative than a trace, the zine captures the act of designing as thinking. It’s messy, methodical, always in motion.

32WorldWide

Merchandise collection
2019
Apparel
A proposed capsule collection for 32WorldWide, a Belgium-based music label and management agency. Built around the label’s existing identity, the collection channels its core attitude — loud, raw, and close to the music — into a series of wearable formats. Visual elements were sourced directly from audio mastering software, then reworked into graphics that echo the label’s sound: compressed, saturated, and driven by texture. Rather than inventing a new language, the system reuses and reprocesses what’s already there — looping recognisable assets into new configurations designed for repetition and visibility. Alongside the garments, a scalable branding system was developed: a logo fleet, ternary color palette, and layout structure that allows the identity to shift without losing clarity. Designed for volume, in every sense of the word.