Cartoonbase

In 2017, Luc de Brabandere, Martin Saive, and Thomas Doutrepont founded Cartoonbase based on a simple observation: faced with increasingly complex challenges, organizations lack clear, inclusive, and engaging tools for thinking and communicating. Their solution draws on an age-old practice that remains largely underutilised: illustration and visual thinking.

Cartoonbase is a creative consultancy that supports organisations in their transformations through visual storytelling and design methodologies. We help our clients clarify complex issues, align visions, and create meaningful experiences.

Cartoonbase’s unique “Two Heads” approach brings together strategic designers with a knack for navigating complexity, and visual designers, who translate ideas and emotions into impactful narratives. As a multidisciplinary and unconventional team—illustrators, writers, graphic designers, videographers, consultants, strategists, and philosophers—we co-create bespoke solutions, from onboarding platforms and change management campaigns to strategic visions, branded content, videos, comics, infographics, social media campaigns, creative workshops, and live drawing sessions.

Today, more than 40 Cartoonbase team members, based in Brussels, Lausanne, and Paris, support organisations worldwide.

Cartoonbase is looking for ambitious, independent, and creative individuals, all driven by the same desire: to make complexity accessible without ever distorting it, and to make this commitment a recognised hallmark on an international scale.

Our culture is based on strong values, lived on a daily basis and nurtured by collaboration, curiosity and a taste for a job well done.

• Care — we build a team
  We are a team first and foremost. Giving feedback, supporting each other, creating a climate of trust and ensuring that everyone can succeed are integral parts of how we work, among colleagues, with our clients and our partners.

• Excellence — we set the bar
  Our joy of creating goes hand in hand with high standards and rigor. We get the job done, we see ideas through to the end, and we pay attention to every detail, from the first stroke of the thick marker to the final rendering.

• Curiosity — we ask the right question
  Understanding the context, walking in the shoes of others, exploring before producing: curiosity guides our creative choices and allows us to offer fair, relevant and impactful solutions.

• Humour — we keep the magic, always
  Saying a lot with a little, daring to take risks, not taking ourselves too seriously. Humor is part of our signature: it fuels creativity, strengthens bonds, and helps us create memorable experiences, without ever compromising the quality of our work.

Cartoonbase was first launched in 2000, with an imperfect business model (cartoons for organizations) but with the same convictions it upholds today.

The team shares breakfast every Friday (or another weekday depending on your office), enjoys numerous activities together inside and outside of work and holds a full company teambuilding once a year.

Conversation topics are quite varied: foosball tactics, Mario Kart tips, unsolved crimes, arts and literature, cats, Legos, birdwatching, ceramics, outdoor sports, old cartoon stories, gardening, and much more.