Following a creative competition poppodium 013 chose Studio Kluif for the development of a new logo and a new communication strategy. The 013 Tilburg popcentre is the result of a fusion between the Noorderligt, the MuzieKantenWinkel and the Bat Cave. This merge resulted in an internationally renowned concert hall that in the past eleven years has enjoyed 2,5 million visitors. The introduction of the new identity is planned for september 2010.

As part of the 'Jheronimus Bosch 500'-project Studio Kluif designed all the graphics for the Bosch Young Talent Show (BYTS). This is a big art event taking place in the AKV St. Joost art school in 's-Hertogenbosch. Especially for BYTS a group of around 40 international, young artists from all the Bosch-cities (like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, etc.) have been invited to The Netherlands to give the public an insight of what's happening in the contemporary art scene.

After weeks of dust, noise, drilling, sweat, painting, breaking, building etc. The new Kluif Studio is finished. We are really happy with the result! The dust, noise, drilling, sweat, painting, breaking, building etc. continues. The Gruyter Fabriek is in the middle of a giant transformation. The great architects of Tarra are responsible for the new look.

Kluif worked in close collaboration with Tarra Architectuur & Stedenbouw on the complete new layout of the Gruyter Fabriek. All of the common spaces of the Gruyter Fabriek are considered for this remodeling- from the entrance and halls to the bathrooms and the new restaurant. We were also busy developing a model concept for office spaces. The first steps which have already been taken towards the new Gruyter Fabriek, were also of the responsibility of Studio Kluif. This included the introduction campaign, the website, the ‘Gruyter Magazine’ as well as the infographics and signing throughout the building.

Raising your kids with military precision.
After the successful, price-winning 'Broodtrommelboek' Studio Kluif is making a second book for SNOR publishers called 'Operatie Opvoeden' (Operation Parenting). When you have read all the books about raising children, you tried all imaginable kinds of courses and your kids still don't do what you want them to, what's left? Then you read this book. 'Operatie Opvoeden' helps you defining goals and finding the right materials to lead your mission to a successful ending.

Date of release: fall 2010.

A big selection of fresh Kluif designs will be published in the upcoming 'Gallery, the world's best graphics' magazine. The selection contains: packaging, annual reports and corporate identity projects. Gallery is published bi-monthly by the California-based publisher Issuu and is considered a unique review dedicated to presenting the best new graphics from all over the world.

Several Nedap annual reports Kluif designed are selected for the german publication 'reporting'. Kirsten Dietz and Jochen Rädeker are currently working on this great international overview of annual reports. The book will be published by Hermann Schmidt Mainz.

A wide range of new packaging designs Kluif created are selected for the upcoming 'Mr. Packaging' publication. The selection includes projects made for a variety of Kluif clients such as: Hema, Intratuin, Zeeman, SiSi and others. The ' Mr. Packaging' book shows packaging design from all over the world. The book will be published by the Hong Kong based Sendpoints books.

After winning the Best Dutch Annual Reports, Endless Energy, the Nedap annual report designed by Studio Kluif, has won again. This time the report has won a silver award during the European Design Awards 2010. Since the start in 2006 the European Design Awards gather the best of European communication-design. Studio Kluif received their award during the ED-award ceremony, the crowning event of the European Design Festival Rotterdam. This is the time when the best designers from all corners of the continent come together to recognize and to reward the effort and the results that they have achieved during the previous year. With participants from 31 different countries (from Iceland to Cyprus and from Russia to Lichtenstein) and with probably the most qualified jury on this planet (comprised by editors from 14 prestigious design magazines), receiving a distinction in the ED-Awards is a true reason for celebration.

After winning the Best Dutch Annual Reports, Endless Energy, the Nedap annual report designed by Studio Kluif, has won again. This time the report has been chosen as one of the nine finalists of the European Design Awards 2010. Since the start in 2006 the European Design Awards gather the best of European communication-design. Winners receive their award during the ED-award ceremony, the crowning event of the European Design Festival Rotterdam.

After Athens, Stockholm and Zürich, Rotterdam will be hosting this years European Design Festival. This means three days full of design including seminars with international speakers, workshops, design walks on foot, by bicycle and boat, exhibitions and a lot more festivities. The highlight of this all is the ED-award ceremony.

After winning a European Design Award, Eat Love, the book about food designer Marije Vogelzang designed by Studio Kluif, wins again. At the Gourmand Awards 2010 it was rewarded with a silver award for ‘best worldwide cookbook design’. These awards are also known as ‘the Oscars for cookbooks’. Eat Love is chosen from entries out of 18 different countries. The Gourmand Award show took place in Paris during the international cookbook fair.

A fresh selection of Kluif's packaging work for Hema, Sisi, Jheronimus Bosch 500 and Zeeman is selected for Basic Pack. The book is divided in seven theme's (beverage, entertainment, fashion, food, health, industrial and office) and will feature design from around the globe. Publisher Index Book Barcelona asked Maria Oliver to select all designs.

Dust. Noise. Drilling. Cold. Messy. Sweat. Electricity. Painting. Building. Glass. Floor. Wood. Furniture. Screen. Table. Kluif is breaking down the wall. 300 m2 of design.

Fonk magazine selected the Hema salty snacks packaging for their Top Dutch Packaging 2009 overview. Kluif designed the entire packaging line for Hema's salty snacks. The packaging line is divided into 3 different categories- premium, basic and tortilla. The typography is made by potato stamps, a reference to the basis ingredient. The extruder line is composed of 'twistbites', 'robo rings' and 'cheese sticks' and makes use of a more illustrative graphic language which also was designed in dialogue with the photography used.

A great selection of Hema packaging designed by Studio Kluif will be published by Technology Press China. Hema is a very successful international retailer with more than 400 shops in The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. Much of its success is due to Hema's strong dedication to quality design. Since 2002 Studio Kluif has worked on dozens of product lines for food, personal hygiene products and kids toys as well as many others.

Studio Kluif is selected to join the upcoming 'Typoshirt One' book. The book brings together typographic designs of T-shirts from all over the world, featuring quotes, sentences, words, letters and numbers, or any other typographic pieces of work. The author of the book is Lars Harmsen. The book will be published by Index Book Publishers Barcelona.

Studio Kluif is featured in the upcoming 'Graphics Alive' book.

Graphics Alive, a world of graphic arts appearing on our daily items is edited by Victionary Publishers Hongkong.
This book is about graphics that create a relationship with us. It is not only a relationship between audience and the entity, like what we would get from reading a flyer or seeing a poster, but a more intimate relationship with our lives. This relationship encompasses all design disciplines - including graphic design, fashion design, interior design and industrial design, etc.

Most of us can recognize the value of good design in major undertakings such as building a house; few of us give it much thought in our daily items. To a lot of people, design is like a trend, but rather an art of making objects look beautiful. It is true that many designers are going under the trend, however, good design isn’t reliant on anything. 'Graphics Alive' brings you to discover this omnipresent power of 'graphics being alive' around us. From big to small, from head to toe, the survey comprises of study of top international brands to unique projects by design experts and also up-and-coming designers.

Loads of new Kluif work will be published in the upcoming 'Logology' publication!

Logology, the wonderland of logo design is edited by Victionary Publishers Hongkong.
Among corporate business of small and large, the identity of a company is very important. It differs a company from its competitors. And when it comes to identity, logo plays a significant role. This series is a comprehensive and inspiring collection of logo design that reveals its very latest trend. You will find two key parts include Case Studies and Gallery. Case Studies not only emphasizes the idea and the concept within and shows how each design is perfectly presented for a particular company from the inside out by examining why design changes were made during the design process, it also gives valuable insights of different working styles and impacts on the design of logos from big design firms to individual designers. By addressing in a brand new way the original ideas of a logo design, it discovers how form follows function or the other way around. An incredible wealth of contemporary and breathtaking design solutions from design studios all around the globe is showcased in the Gallery. Various forms, concepts and styles of logos are presented in 3 main categories: Typography, Icon and Illustration. So, let’s spread the pages and run into the wonderland of logo design!

'Save the Date', new ideas and approaches in calendar design is edited by Victionary Publishers Hongkong.

Appearing to be a practical swatchbook or giving a hint of seasonal change, calendar has been removed to become a brilliant sourcebook of inspiration besides signalising the passage of time. With the principal focus placed on various usage of formats and materials, interactive concepts indicating the process of time change, and a variety of illustrations that pursue the designers' distinct perception of time and year, Save the Date explores how these date indicators help to keep time front of people's mind and liven up your home and office with a variety of extras, ideas, illustrations and media to express.

Eat Love, the book by food designer Marije Vogelzang and designed by Studio Kluif is announced finalist on the shortlist of 'Best designed cookbook of the world' in the Gourmand Awards 2010. After receiving a Gourmand Cookbook Award for best cookbook in The Netherlands, Eat Love is conquering the world. The book was chosen out of entries from 18 countries in the category 'Best designed cookbook' and is now shortlisted in the top 4! To see our competitors go to www.cookbookfair.com. There will be a publication of these entries in the Gourmand Yearbook 2010 as well. The 'Best in the World Awards', also known as 'the Oscars of cookbooks' take place on February 11, 2010 at the Paris Cookbook Fair in Paris.

Studio Kluif is featured in the new IdN magazine: The colour issue. In the article, a dozen leading Dutch creatives were asked: whatever happened to classic Dutch design?

The Netherlands may translate into English as ‘low countries’ but when it comes to design, the Dutch are surely at the peak of this profession. Recognised as a centre of excellence and innovation in almost all creative fields, the Dutch design scene is experiencing something of a watershed. Is it still a source of inspiration to the rest of the design world? Yes, but it is changing. We ask a dozen leading Dutch creatives to explain what’s going on in their home country.

Featuring: Novak Grafisch Ontwerp / Misha Strik / Almost Modern / Patswerk / Autobahn / Joost van Bleiswijk / Karma / Catalogtree / Florentijn Hofman / Studio Kluif / Lesley Moore / Hans Gremmen

Kluif invited to join Common Interest Book!
Studio Kluif is selected to join a new Index Book publication: 'Common Interest'. Index Book is a Barcelona-based publisher specialized in design publications.

The book shall be showcasing productions designed all over the world including brochures, leaflets, flyers and booklets that have been designed for the charity, academic, arts or culture sector. Emmi Salonen will be the editor of the book.

Both the 'Broodtrommelboek' and 'Eat Love', books by food designer Marije Vogelzang and designed by Studio Kluif, received a Gourmand Cookbook Award for best cookbooks in The Netherlands. These awards are also known as "the Oscars of cookbooks". The books will now compete against winners in other countries for the best cookbooks in the world! The results will be announced in February 2010, at the Paris Cookbook Fair.

The ‘Broodtrommelboek’ (lunchbox book) Kluif designed for Snor publishers is nominated for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The results will be announced at the Paris Cookbook Fair in February 2010. Food designer Marije Vogelzang created a lunchbox book for kids, full with inspiring ideas. A monster-box, a secret messages-box, a broken heart-box... Eating lunch was never so much fun!

Kluif is selected to join the 'Green Graphics' publication which will be published by Index Book Barcelona. In this new book, there will be a compilation of all sorts of graphic communication designed to promote a more sustainable lifestyle and alert about the risks of environmental pollution, the loss of biodiversity, the dangers of climate change...

The book will contain subjects such as residue management and reduction, recycling, energy saving, water saving, renewable energies, responsible consumerism, responsible packaging, promotion and packaging of biological products, sustainable transport, eco-tourism, protection of species and ecosystems, etc. Environment-related graphic design!

New Kluif work is selected for the upcoming ‘Brand 2010’ publication.The book will be published in over 20 countries through the cooperation with other publishing partners with special attention given to Japan, South Korea, China, and Europe. The book will contain top works from design professionals from all over the world. It will be published by ooogo, ‘Brand 2010’ is the continuum of ‘Brand 2007’ and ‘Brand 2009’ which has about 420 pages.

Loads of Studio Kluif's work will be published in the upcoming 'Brand Design' publication. The book will show a great overview of the world's best brand designs. It will be published by Chois Gallery. For every brand a variety of products will be shown: logo, stationery, packaging, annual report, clothing, brochure, building signage and more.

New Studio Kluif work will be presented in the upcoming Futu magazine. Futu magazine is an international, bilingual exclusive album released twice a year in Warsaw, Poland. Futu brings new look to design, photography, fashion and luxury by combining most advanced publishing techniques with newest trends in graphic design and typography. The mission statement of Futu: to highlight aesthetic aspects of life and positive models of material world. To present interesting and innovative solutions in design and fashion. To spread an optimistic vision of the future. To focus on quality of life. To stimulate creative progress. To become an international platform for creative expression of the most prestigious design studios in the world by inviting the graphic studios to contribute in following issues of the magazine.

Distribution: available worldwide (Paris, London, Milan, New York, Stockholm, Zurich, Tokyo, in selected bookstores and concept stores (eg. Colette, Palais de Tokyo bookstore).
Magazine packaging in specially designed carton boxes.

In 2009 Studio Kluif was the winner of quite a few prizes. It has been a great year for the Kluif team and for our clients.
An overview of 2009:

Hema ice cream packaging
Winner ADCN prize
Finalist NY Festivals

Nedap ‘We’re travelling...’ annual report
Winner Silver European Design Awards
Nomination ADCN prize
Nomination NY Festivals

Book ‘Eat Love' by Marije Vogelzang
Winner Bronze European Design Awards

HEMA garden & outdoor packaging
Selected for Dutch Design Awards

Studio Kluif is happy to announce that we are working on packaging projects for Sainsbury's UK.

J Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's (also Sainsbury and JS), the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a share of the UK supermarket sector of 16.3%. The group also has interests in property and banking.

Sainsbury's was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury in London and grew rapidly during the Victorian era. It grew to become the largest grocery retailer in 1922 and pioneered self-service retailing in the UK.

Studio Kluif is very proud to announce that it will be responsible for the visual identity and branding of the "Jheronimus Bosch 500" event. After an intense and eleborate pitch, alongside two other great design studio's, Kluif was granted the assignment. We take great honour in working for this project for it will have enormous social impact.
Kluif approached the pitch with a 360 degrees mentality and came up with a total communication plan. The result is fresh and contemporary yet keeping in sync with the 15th century spirit of Jheronimus Bosch' genius. The presentation ceremony was held in the "Theater aan de Parade" and hosted by Ad 's-Gravesande (former artistic director of the Holland Festival) and ’s-Hertogenbosch' mayor Ton Rombouts. The evening included a theatre play produced for the event which was based on Bosch's painting "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four last things" and narrated by the renowned poet Gerrit Komrij.

We're very happy to announce that Bis Publishers will yet again publish a monograph of Kluif's work. It is the third monograph of our work they publish, following 'Purists are Boring' and 'Pacifist Punks'. Kluif is on a roll! The book will showcase Kluif's newest projects from 2008 onwards. Familiar subjects of BIS Publishers include graphic design, fashion, architecture, product design and advertising. BIS has earned a national and international reputation for prizewinning books for creative professionals and their clients. Well known is the prestigious series of Dutch Design books, which BIS has published every two years since 1990 in collaboration with the Association of Dutch Designers BNO. BIS Publishers is the founder and publisher of Graphic magazine and is also founder of Frame Magazine which has developed into a publishing company of its own (www.framemag.com). BIS Publishers is an independent company founded in 1986 by the present director and publisher Rudolf van Wezel.

Studio Kluif is working on new packaging concepts for Tesco. Tesco plc is a UK-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share, with profits exceeding £3 billion. It is currently the third largest global retailer based on revenue, behind Wal-Mart and France's Carrefour, but second largest based on profit, ahead of Carrefour. Originally specialising in food and drink, it has diversified into areas such as clothing, consumer electronics, financial services, telecoms, home, health and car insurance, dental plans, retailing and renting DVDs, CDs, music downloads, Internet services and software. More to follow soon!

Studio Kluif's packaging work is greatly presented on The Dieline, world's #1 package design website. There is a special Studio Kluif Spotlight!
Click here to have a look: www.thedieline.com

Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field. The Dieline has quickly grown into the most visited website on package design in the world, and has become the voice of the industry. It is an active sponsor of the Pentawards, the first and only professional design competition devoted exclusively to the art of brand packaging, further promoting the field.

Kluif's design work for Mees will be featured in an international publication about the usage of colour in branding. Kluif has taken care of all design work for the children's clothing brand Mees, since it's founding in 1999. We developed the Mees logo using red and white and these colours have always had a predominant presence throughout the Mees brand, from its corporate identity to the clothing itself. Mees will serve as a case study in the book for its distinctive employment of colour. The book will include all sorts of designs related to brand and corporate identity and will work as a reference book with its content ordered by colour.

Mother Burger, is a N.Y. based health conscious fast-food restaurant chain. Their mascot is 'Mother' a large biker kind of guy who is committed to serving up wholesome quality food that is of organic origin and without steroids or hormones. It is a burger joint with an attitude & a sense of humor. Mother will make sure you get all the 4 food groups: Burger, Hot Dog, Fries and Beer. Pity there aren't more mothers like that, we think. Kluif is working on a lot of the in-house graphic material: from menus to place mats and bags, as well as ideas for various communication tools for the brand. We'll keep you updated as more stuff is made.

Loads of new Kluif work will be published in the upcoming Gallery Issue. Gallery, the world's best graphics, is published by the California-based publisher Issuu. Gallery magazine is published bi-monthly. A unique review dedicated to presenting the best new graphics from all over the world. It includes packaging, corporate identity, poster, DM, promotion materials, ad campaign, web design. Each more than 220-page issue features around 200 of the world's best new graphics.

New Kluif designs are selected for the upcoming Lürzer's Archive Issue. Lürzer's Archive is a bimonthly showcase of exceptional design from around the world. Every issue showcases 70 new and outstanding print campaigns from around the world, fascinating interviews with the best international creatives, and more than 50 new TV spots, which, in combination with an online services subscription, can be viewed on Lürzer's website in their original version. Lürzer's Archive is a tool for creatives - 150,000 readers worldwide already rely on it.

Studio Kluif, alongside two other great design studio's, was invited to participate in the pitch for "Jheronimus Bosch 500". This involves developing a top brand identity for this enormous multidisciplinary event. In 2016 the city of 's-Hertogenbosch will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of the painter Jheronimus Bosch. The local municipality decided in June 2009 that the Jheronimus Bosch 500 project should be a structure strengthening program for the city that will span over several years, so that in the coming years the city will experience a build up to the climax of the project in 2016. The municipality and the external project managers Martijn Sanders and Ad 's-Gravesande are equally convinced that the project at hand extends itself beyond the cultural domain. Jheronimus Bosch 500 serves a higher ambition and can be a lever for the long-term development of the city, also strengthening the social connection between its inhabitants and the structure of the city itself. During the month of October we expect to be able to share more news on development of this pitch.

Bags are on the streets and in the closets of every major city in the world. They are shown off, collected, recycled, stolen and given away. They are works of art, status symbols, and phenomenal advertising vehicles. They are the greatest freebies of all time. This book profiles the most memorable designs, revealing why they have become the icons that shoppers yearn to carry. Other participants are: Stefan Sagmeister, Cacao Design, Hong chong IP, Mai Kato, Sandra Augstein, Uli WeiB.

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: ooogo
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 200 x 250 x 4mm
ISBN: 9789867022302
Released: March 2009
Full color throughout

Studio enjoyed working on 'Sweet Fever'. The result is a book which wonderfully showcases the amazingly rich art of Meertens.

After attending the Faculty of Art at the York St John University, the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven and the Faculty of Art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Hans Meertens graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2000. In that same year he was nominated for the Piet Bakker Prize, an incentive prize for young Utrecht School of the Arts graduates with outstanding talent. In the following years Meertens’ artworks were exhibited in a variety of artist-run spaces and galleries. Giulio Cesare & Co Gallery in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) presented Meertens’ first solo exhibition “Solo Inferno” in 2004, soon followed by a second solo exhibition in 2005, titled “Invocatio!”. More recently, Meertens’ artworks were on view at the Museum of Gorcum (2006), Caelum Gallery, New York (2006), Gallery Clifford, Odense and Daugård, Denmark (2007-2008) and Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery in New York (2006 -2008). An important part of his work is included in the collections of enthusiastic collectors around the world and Meertens has been commissioned by major companies such as Porsche, Nedap and Metro. After winning a commercial pitch, five young artists -among which Hans Meertens- were commissioned by Ajax Amsterdam to create a painting to be included in both the Annul Report 2006 and an exclusive charity auction held by a Sotheby’s auctioneer in 2007, to raise funds for the Johan Cruyff Foundation. From late 2007 until early 2008 an overview of Meertens’ paintings and drawings were exhibited at Gallery Clifford, Odense, during his solo exhibition “Counterphobia”. Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery presented Meertens’ first solo exhibition in New York in April/May 2008. This exhibition -entitled “Remote Control”- featured both retrospective and new works. (To open the Monkdogz press release click here, for pictures of the opening reception by photographer Sam Chadwick click here). From September 13 until October 12 2008, Gallery Clifford in Daugård presented "Sweet Fever"; Meertens’ fifth solo exhibition and his second in Denmark.

From 2001 until summer 2007, before devoting himself completely to his art, Meertens combined his work as an autonomous artist with a teaching profession in Art and Cultural Social Studies at secundary school Het Nicolaaslyceum in Amsterdam. As a singer/songwriter (File Under Shane) Meertens independently released two critically acclaimed cd’s; Soul On Fire (2006) and Trenches (2005). A comprehensive catalogue of Meertens’ art will be published in 2009.

Kluif is working in close collaboration with Tarra Architectuur & Stedenbouw on the complete new layout of the Gruyter Fabriek. All of the common spaces of the Gruyter Fabriek are considered for this remodeling- from the entrance and halls to the bathrooms and the new restaurant. We are also busy developing a model concept for office spaces. The first steps which have already been taken towards the new Gruyter Fabriek, were also of the responsibility of Studio Kluif. This included infographics and signing throughout the building as well as the "Gruyter Magazine", the website and the introduction campaign.

Studio Kluif is presently working on a tile collection aimed for the architectural market. The collection will be produced using century-old traditional techniques. All the tiles are manufactured manually. All raw materials used are 100% natural.
More later...

All the prize winning work that Kluif developed since 1999 is collected in the Dutch Design Database. DDD is an exhibition and a database about the development of design as a profession in The Netherlands since 1945.

Collected by: Bas van Lier
Design: Niels Schrader and Erik Boldt
Programming: Stijn Kuipers and Marcel van der Drift

The Canada-based Rockport Publishers has commissioned Fifty Strategy and Creative to write and design a book called the 100 Principles of Package Design. Rockport Publishers specializes in books for design professionals. Its publishing program includes graphic design, interior design, general reference, architecture, and product design. Rockport Publishers’ worldwide book distribution offers designers the opportunity to show their work in an international forum. To be continued...

The 2009 bike collection that Kluif designed for Halfords is arriving to the shops. The first models are available. Meanwhile we're already busy on the collection for 2010. Halfords is a chain of stores with 160 outlets in The Netherlands and Belgium. Halfords has three different store formats; the Citystore, the Superstore and the Webstore and specialises in bicycles and bicycle and car accessories. Halfords offers useful products and services that offer solutions when on the road on a bike or in a car. For years Studio Kluif designs the bicycle collections including the related accessories for Halfords.

IdN contacted Studio Kluif to join the new Dutch Design Issue they are working on. IdN magazine is an international publication for creative people on a mission to amplify and unify the design community in Asia-Pacific and other parts of the world. It has been an active organiser of many design-related events. It is devoted to bringing designers from around the globe together to communicate with, learn from and inspire one another. It has truly become what the initials of its title proclaim it to be: an international designers' network.

After an extensive agency oriëntation Zeeman has chosen Studio Kluif to develop the total new packaging policy. At the moment Kluif is working on several assortment groups. The first results will hit the shops from July 2009. The Zeeman Group operates over 1050 Zeeman textielSupers in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. Its head office and distribution centre are both located in Alphen aan den Rijn and it is from there that all the shops receive their stock several times a week. The range consists for the greater part of textiles and clothing basics for the whole family. In addition to the basic ranges, Zeeman carries an ever varying range of non-textile products. That the discount formula is well received by the consumer is demonstrated by the fact that 60 million customers from all strata of the population visit the shops on an annual basis. Zeeman offers new products every week using eye-catching advertising campaigns to bring them to the public’s attention.

The prize winning designs of Studio Kluif are featured in the new E.D. Awards 2009 publication. After the two first events in Athens and Stockholm, Zurich was the host of the third edition of what is now called the “European Design Festival” which is organized with the endorsement of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda). Apart the trademark three-day conference and the awards ceremony, this year’s events included various exhibitions, a lecture by the iconic book designer Irma Boom (both organized by the Zurich Design Museum), design walks, a VIP tour of the Google headquarters and a party to wrap everything up in style. Next year, Rotterdam will host the events, which will be organized in cooperation with the Dutch Designers Association (BNO), Design Platform Rotterdam and the City of Rotterdam.

The new Kluif giveaway is in production. The new giveaway will be a Sleevefaces book and a musicfreak t-shirt. The book is made in cooperation with photographer Arthur Dries.

Kluif has won a silver lamp for the ADCN prize 2009. In total there were 1207 submitters and 34 prize winners. The award ceremony, presented by journalist and television presenter Jort Kelder, took place in The Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam.
A silver lamp was given for the ice cream packaging Studio Kluif made for Hema. The nominated Nedap annual report didn't receive a lamp.

Yet again Studio Kluif has been asked to publish work in an international design book. This time Kluif was invited by Mao Mao Publications, a Barcelona-based publishing house specialized in graphic design, fashion, illustration, photography and pop culture. The main theme of the book is focused on direct mailings, the selected Kluif work is for clients such as Nedap, SiSi, Oilily, Ohra and others.

Recently the internationally renowned company Heinz asked Studio Kluif to work on several exciting projects. Soon the first results from this succesfull joint venture will be online!

Novum - World of Graphic Design - is a monthly published international magazine (bilingual - German/English) featuring the best in contemporary graphic design, illustration, photo design, web design, corporate design, poster design, advertising, packaging and typography. Novum also spotlights new talent and the latest trends. In the next issue Novum will publish an editorial feature with loads of fresh Kluif work! To be continued...

Studio Kluif is proud to announce that two of our projects (Hema ice cream packaging and Nedap annual report) are nominated for the prestigious ADCN prize 2009.
The complete nomination list follows:

TBWA\NEBOKO 35 nominations
Albert Heijn, Heineken Nederland, Holland Casino, Holland Casino/Heineken, IDFA, IKEA Nederland, Mars Nederland, Pearle Benelux, Praxis, Tempo-Team, Unilever Nederland.

DDB 25 nominations
Achmea, Centraal Beheer Achmea, Eneco, Henkel, Pon’s Automobielhandel, SIRE, Ziggo.

Selmore 14 nominations
Bavaria, Pon Mobiel, Stichting Consument en Veiligheid, Unilever Benelux, Waalwear Men.

Doom&Dickson 12 nominations
Heineken Nederland, HEMA, OHRA, Staatsloterij.

Lowe & Draftfcb 9 nominations
Delta Lloyd, Dierenasiel Amsterdam, Lowe & Draftfcb, De Uitkijk.

De Designpolitie 7 nominations
Graphic Design Museum, Ted Noten, TNT, Valiz.

UbachsWisbrun/JWT 7 nominations
Intergamma, KNGF Geleidehonden, LEAF, Randstad, Stichting Varkens in Nood.

S-W-H 6 nominations
Belastingdienst, Nike, Sensoor.

hazazaH 5 nominations
Krijn van Noordwijk, Meldpunt Kinderporno, Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, TELEAC.

Publicis 5 nominations
Fonds Slachtofferhulp, Koninklijke Landmacht, Korps Commandotroepen.

Thonik 5 nominations
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, SP, Venice Architecture Biennale.

180 Amsterdam 3 nominations
adidas International, BMW Motorrad.

72andSunny 3 nominations
Nike, Nike EHQ.

Amsterdam Worldwide 3 nominations
General Motors, Onitsuka Tiger.

FHV BBDO 3 nominations
Interpolis, KPN, Nederlands Dans Theater.

N=5 3 nominations
LOI, Menzis, Selexyz.

Bonkers 2 nominations
Bavaria, Nike.

BVH Groep 2 nominations
Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen.

Design Bridge 2 nominations
H.J. Heinz, Schwarzkopf Professional.

ETCETERA 2 nominations
Bol.com.

HOUDINI 2 nominations
Auto Trader.

Millford Brand-id 2 nominations
Albert Heijn, Leaf Holland.

OD 2 nominations
Fruity King.

Ogilvy Amsterdam 2 nominations
DHL, MTV Networks International.

PostPanic 2 nominations
PostPanic.

Saatchi & Saatchi Amsterdam 2 nominaties
National Geographic Channel, Stichting Geheim Geweld.

Skipintro 2 nominations
Rijksmuseum.

Studio Kluif 2 nominations
HEMA, Nedap.

-SYB- 2 nominations
Gijsbert Hanekroot, Viviane Sassen.

THEY 2 nominations
Coffee Company.

UXUS 2 nominations
Buccella Wines.

Sander van de Vlasakker, Denny Brandsen, Joost van Middelaar 2 nominations
Stichting Beeldverhaal Nederland, Jonge Honden.

The next contestants have 1 nomination:
&KoenseSeverein, Rijschool Tom de Keizer
ACHTUNG!, Volkswagen
Alfred International, Unilever Nederland
ARA, Koninklijke Luchtmacht
Bij Brand, Eneco
Brandnew•design, Van Toor
Cablejuice, MTV
CCCP, Unilever
Christel Palace, Bizner
COMRAD, XS4ALL
Creatiefteam.nl, DHL
Dietwee communicatie en vormgeving, Het Aids Fonds
DJPA, Friesland Foods Western Europe
Studio Dumbar, Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Euro RSCG Amsterdam, Citroën Nederland
FC Walvisch, Heineken Nederland
HOTEL, productiehuis ON
HoverKraft, Grafisch Papier
IdeasMatter, VPRO Gids
Kummer & Herrman, Stedelijk Museum CS Amsterdam
LEMZ, IKEA Nederland
New Message, AVRO
PROUDdesign, HEMA
RAPP, Rabobank
RedHook, Stichting Meer dan Voetbal
SOGOOD, Huize Van Wely
Jaap Vliegenthart Fotografie, Panasonic Europe
Marcel van der Vlugt, La Vie en Rose Magazine
Stichting Wakker Dier, Stichting Wakker Dier
Y&R Not Just Film, Xerox Nederland

Nominated in the category Young Talent:
Eduard van Bennekom & Jasper Diks
Patrick van Haperen & Rens de Jonge
Ronny Jaspers & Nick Plomp
Nik Sluijs & Joey Boeters

Kluif's work is selected for 100% European Graphic Design Portfolio. The book is produced in Asia and released internationally by Sandu publishers. Other participants are: Studio Dumbar (The Netherlands), Eden Design (The Netherlands), Dragon Rouge (France), Cacao Design (Italy), Beetroot (Greece) and many more.

Europe is the cradle land of contemporary design at the beginning of the 20th century. From the Arts & Crafts Movement, Art Nouveau Movement, Modernism Movement represented by Bauhaus, to the Neo-modernism at present, Europe has always been the center for modern design movements, representing the unlimited designing creativities. 100%-European Graphic Design collects the explorative and experimental graphic design in European design area, gathers the top designers in European, and also witnesses the growing of new generation in designing field. Various images are selected and reorganized couples of times in designers’ minds, then abstracted into formats and structures which are coherent with the core concept, so as to be reconstructed a refined visual from. That is the European design principle represented by 100%-European Graphic Design Portfolio : concept under the brilliant surface is the essential part of design.

100%-European Graphic Design Portfolio has gained the support of international organizations such as Wolda, Association of Dutch Designers, Swedish Association of Designers and Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland. We express our thanks for those who help us and special thanks to our contributors, such as New Future Graphic (Britain), Dew Gibbons (Britain), Mark Richardson (Britain), Dragon Rouge (France), Moniteurs (German), Hesse Design (Germany), Khdesign Gmbh (Germany), Büro Uebele (Germany), Rotbraun (Germany), Cacao Design (Italy), Studio Sergio Calatroni Art Room srl (Italy), Ngdesign (Italy), Yonoh (Spain), Studio Dumbar (The Netherlands), Studio Kluif (The Netherlands), Eden Design & Communication (The Netherlands), Lava (The Netherlands), Bard Hole Standal (Norway), Tank Design (Norway), GVA Studio (Switzerland), BeetRoot Design Group (Greece), Hreur Lárusson, Katrin Olina (Iceland), Hahmo Design (Finland), Ohlsonsmith (Sweden), Sweden Graphic (Sweden), Turner Duckworth (Britain & USA), ZUU (Portugal), Laboratorium (Croatia).

100%-European Graphic Design Portfolio offers an exchange platform for designers from the world. We will keep on our efforts in the future years, promoting design exchange and strengthening mutual understanding. It is originality that we highlight. Our principle is to interpret life and society through design under different backgrounds of different countries.

Editorial Department of 100%-European Graphic Design Portfolio

The 10-year anniversary of pop podium 013 will be celebrated with a special programme that will last a week and will be featuring national and international top artists. A unique anniversary newspaper will also be published that will fall on every doormat in the municipality of Tilburg. Studio Kluif will be developing the concept and the design for this publication.

The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design. Featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new techniques and technologies. Dutch designers are inspiring exciting interactions between design and its users, compelling us to rethink the meaning of design itself. They question every aspect of design, creating new concepts, processes and formats, bravely pushing the limits of user participation and the designer's role. Featuring: Catalogtree, De Designpolitie, Experimental Jetset, Studio Kluif, Dennis Koot, Harmen Liemburg, Lust, Thonik, Toko and others.

 

Edited by: Tomoko Sakamoto, Ramon Prat

 

Review: ‘Supremely intelligent and witty. This volume on the highly advanced world of Dutch graphics features a caped superhero on the cover, in case you didn't know that designing denizens of The Netherlands is reinventing, with crusading zeal, the way mere mortals engage their surroundings.’ Metropolitan Home ‘If you thought that instruction manuals and statistical graphics could never be sexy, think again. SHD is focused on the best of Dutch graphic design and gets the cover it fully deserves: it's ironic, witty, stands out from the crowd.’ We Make Money Not Art

Pacifist Punks by Studio Kluif Published by Bis 

After the successful Kluif ‘Purists are Boring’ monograph, Kluif's second ‘Pacifist Punks’ book is available in the better bookstore. This book is also internationally published by Bis Publishers. A publication full of new work produced between 2006 and 2008 in which the development that Kluif is experiencing strongly emerges. This book provides an insight into the very different pieces of work Studio Kluif has produced for clients such as HEMA, SiSi, Halfords, OHRA, Oilily, Nedap, Amnesty International and The Parade. This second Kluif monograph contains a broad range of productions such as magazines, packaging, bicycles, posters, annual reports, dessins, clothing prints, giveaways, etc. Urge to buy? It can be obtained at Nijhof & Lee in Amsterdamt, Robert Premsela in Amsterdam, Broese bookstore in Utrech, Venstra bookstore in Amstelveen, Waanders bookstore in Zwolle, Donner Boeken in Rotterdam, Selexyz Scholtens in Groningen, Selexyz Adr. Heinen in 's-Hertogenbosch, Van Stockum in The Hague, through bol.com, to name a few!

By Marije Vogelzang
Designed by Kluif!

Studio Kluif had the honour to design Marije Vogelzang’s first ‘Eat Love’ publication! After her graduation from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2000 Marije Vogelzang has been designing eating concepts. Her interest is in the verb ‘to eat’. She does not only deeply think about what is on a plate (if there is a plate at all), but she also thinks about everything that surrounds the act of eating. The atmosphere, the people involved, the stories behind the ingredients, the taste and texture, sound, smell and colour of food and the way it is prepared and served. She looks into the effect of food on our body and follows the journey food makes from seed all the way to becoming poop. Thinking about all this and working and experimenting in her studio and restaurant and by creating eating experiences for her clients she has developed her own unique way of looking at eating from a designer’s point of view. This book makes her vision and spectacular eating concepts available for the first time for a large group of people who are interested in food and the culture and experience of eating. The introduction is written by design critic Louise Schouwenberg and places Marije Vogelzang’s work within the context of Dutch design, international design and trends in food, eating culture and society.

 

Design: Studio Kluif

160 pages

hardcover, 24 x 18 cm

€ 39

ISBN 978-90-6369-200-1

Publication date: December 2008

Kluif has been invited to join ‘The keywords on Visual Arts in The Netherlands’ book. This book is the third one of the City Design Series; the first two focus on Tokyo and New York. It covers various fields such as design, contemporary art, architecture, photography, illustration, graffiti, etc. It will be a useful and handsome graphic dictionary that will provide information about The Netherlands for readers in Taiwan (and readers on a global scale). Participants: Droog Design, Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders, Irma Boom, Thonik, De Designpolitie, Studio Kluif, Rem Koolhaas, Ben van Berkel, Erwin Olaf, Inez van Lamsweerde and more.

Kluif announces that a selection of Kluif's work is featured for KAK's Dutch design issue. A few agencies that have been selected for this Dutch Design Special are Studio Dumbar, Dick Bruna and Het Lab. KAK magazine is the only illustrated periodical issue devoted to graphic design in Russia.