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).

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: SICA
what: website designs
year: 2011

This year SICA, the Dutch Center for International Cultural Activities, launches four Cultural Exchange websites that profile and facilitate cultural exchanges between the Netherlands and other countries.
Mannschaft realised this project with the support of Gabriëlle Marks.

visit the sites of Brazil, China, Turkey, Russia

client: Mediafonds, Dutch Cultural Media Fund
year: 2011
what: magazine design
print production: Calff & Meischke, Amsterdam

we were asked to develop an identity for the Creative Amsterdam 2011 conference, Open Studio Night and Creative Amsterdam Award, including logos and website elements.
the basic idea behind the identity is that the conference functions like a hub, it’s like an airport terminal with planes docking on and off.

what: design for a new bi-annual award
client : AICA, Netherlands branch of the International Association of Art Critics

mannschaft designed the new, bi-annual award for the dutch branch of AICA: Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art. This award was presented to AVRO, the oldest of the dutch broadcasting corporations, in the Stedelijk Museum on December 2, 2010. AVRO receives this award for their achievement and excellence in cultural television programs that reach a broad audience, yet dare to explore rougher areas of the arts as well. That’s a long sentence for telling you they do not only produce everybody’s favorite roadshow ‘Tussen Kunst & Kitsch’ (like ‘The Antiques Roadshow’ on BBC) but make many more interesting and innovative television programs. Also, they broadcast wonderful documentaries about artists from all over the word. Hat for AVRO!

If you want to read the original AICA web post you can do that here (in dutch). And this is the text of the official ‘laudatio’ by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen (in dutch).

Simone van den Ende, head of Art & Culture at AVRO, Willemijn Maas, general director of AVRO and Robert-Jan Muller, chairman of AICA Nederland. Photo courtesy of AICA.