Clara Pasteau

Clara Pasteau is a graphic designer and web developer whose practice engages the intersections of coding, graphic design, materiality, and spatiality. A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2018), she has worked independently between France and Belgium since 2020. She is a member of the Belgian collective OSP (Open Source Publishing), which explores the possibilities of practicing design through free and non-proprietary tools. In addition to her collaborative work within OSP, she occasionally teaches in art schools and contributes to workshops. Her professional activity encompasses the design of artisanal websites—characterized by the integration of code, narrative structures, and visual sensitivity—as well as projects in publishing, signage, and visual identity for cultural institutions. In opposition to the standardized aesthetics of the contemporary web, she advocates for a critical and handcrafted approach to digital tools, a position she has articulated through projects such as The Computer Store and the mini-series What’s More Important than Two Women Talking About Web Development?, developed in collaboration with Maisa Imamović. Her practice is situated within experimental, collaborative, and poetically inflected modes of production.

https://www.clarapasteau.com/