design: Mannschaft
material: plexiglass
technique: lasercut
production: Eiso Bergsma

Axel Rüger, director Van Gogh Museum

for Dutch newspaper Trouw we designed a series of 4 cookbooks that feature acclaimed Michelin star chef Ron Blaauw.

a book for every season, with very nice recipes and background stories on ingredients. in every book Ron is also seen exploring something that fits the season (i.e. in autumn he is gathering mushrooms).
just some digital mock-ups here, as we are eagerly awaiting the real volumes here so that we can photograph them!

Trouw’s promotional site for these books can be found here (warning: flash).

the magazine is a call for more quality and a wider choice for students and the providers of housing for students.

twenty imaginary students are profiled, alongside ten housing products that should appeal to both the students as to the providers. lavishly illustrated, the magazine also takes the reader through five centuries of student housing and offers some thorough analysis of the obstacles facing developing for this market.

read Class of 2020 here, see an impression of the presentation here.

client: Mathieu Derckx
what: website design
programming: Netklaar (Hans van Dijk en Sander van Gelderen)

we’re happy to see this website going live for architect Mathieu Derckx. the design we came up with is simple but allows for an interesting visual arrangement of images through the clever use of masks. parts of images can be masked and are lined up next to each other and thus make up visually arresting pages. the basic shapes that create the masks are shown in the very first image of this post. it’s a bit like architecture in a browser window. Cheers, Mathieu!

this gorgeous box is a warm welcome to everyone who just moved within the netherlands. mannschaft was asked to design the packaging.

each box contains a customized selection of vouchers provided by shops and and other businesses in the neighborhood of your new address.

client: PostNL
what: series of postage stamps
print: Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé

PostNL, the new name of the Dutch Post, approached us to design an edition in a series of stamp emissions on the theme of the Netherlands and its ties with other countries. titled ‘Grenzeloos Nederland’ (‘Netherlands without borders’) the series explore the ties that the Netherlands have and have had with Brazil, Surinam, and in our edition, South-Africa.
the subjects we explored are the VOC trading company, that created a trading post in Africa on Cape Good Hope, which became Kaapstad / Cape Town, South-African wine and the Cape-Dutch building tradition, and the similarities between Afrikaans and Dutch. the themes are shown within the silhouettes of six animals (the ‘big five’ plus our friend the pinguin) that can be found in South-Africa.
in one of the stamps we’ve used Ingrid Jonkers’ poem Die kind wat doodgeskiet is deur soldate by Nyanga that Nelson Mandela has read during his inauguration as the first president of the New South Africa.

you can order the stamps here.

client: Mediafonds
what: annual report
print: Calff & Meischke