Category: Book Design

  • Colour Guide for Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

    Colour Guide for Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

    Design and Concept for Colour Guide for Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. 100 masterworks turned into 12.000 colour codes, ready for application.

  • Ymere Strategy Book

    Ymere Strategy Book

    Every 5 years Ymere, Amsterdam’s largest Social Housing Corporation, updates it’s strategic vision document. This book portrays the current business strategy. 2016.

  • RIVM tender branding

    RIVM tender branding

    RIVM, Dutch centre for Disease Control new HQ tender branding. Winner. 2014.  

  • Ideal Standard

    Ideal Standard

    Ideal Standard. The definitive monologue of the Claus en Kaan catalogue.Designed and visually edited by Graphic Language. Published by GL’s twin sister company Prototype Editions. 2009.  

  • Who is in charge here?

    Who is in charge here?

    Who is in charge here? Inaugural Address by Karin Laglas as the Dean of the Architecture Department at TU Delft Technical University. 2011

  • Tolhuistuin Foundation Report

    Tolhuistuin Foundation Report

    Cultural Financial Report for Tolhuistuin Foundation in Amsterdam. 2016.

  • Dutch Supreme Court Tender

    Dutch Supreme Court Tender

    Branding for PPS (Public Private Cooperation) TENDER for KAAN Architecten (former Claus en Kaan Architecten). Supreme Court of The Netherlands. 2012.

  • VR8 Tender Branding

    VR8 Tender Branding

    VR8 PPS TENDER BRANDING. Verbouwing Rijnstraat 8. Public Private Cooperation (PPS) tender for a refurbishment/reconstruction of a large government building located right next to The Hague’s Central Station. For KAAN Architecten. 2014.

  • Rechtbank Amsterdam Tender Branding

    Rechtbank Amsterdam Tender Branding

    Rechtbank Amsterdam. The Amsterdam Courthouse tender. For Rob Hootsmans Architectuurbureau and consortium. Project branding, book design. 2016.

  • Central Fine Collection Agency

    Central Fine Collection Agency

    After completion of Claus en Kaan’s CENTRAL FINE COLLECTION AGENCY building in Leeuwarden in 2013. A small edition book was printed for press and clients.  

  • Maison à Bordeaux

    Maison à Bordeaux

    A poem-like text by Rem Koolhaas is the basis of this short story about OMA’s Maison à Bordeaux. Made during construction, to glimpse ahead of completion. The design was an intentional ‘hommage’ to Bruce Mau’s SMLXL cover. So that this small book could function as an extra external chapter of that book.  

  • OMA’s ROTTERDAM building BOOK

    OMA’s ROTTERDAM building BOOK

    OMA’s first ROTTERDAM proposal document. 1999. A facsimile reproducttion of this book was made in an edition of 50 copies to hand out to the press for the opening ceremony of the building in 2012.

  • MetaCity DataTown

    MetaCity DataTown

    Architecture CLASSIC from the late 90ies. MVRDV’s installation METACITY DATATOWN turned into a paperback GRAPHIC NOVEL. 1999. — “Paul Ouwerkerk is responsable for the books IMPRESSIVE LAYOUT”* “Für das EINDRUCKSVOLLE LAYOUT des Buches zeichnet Paul Ouwerkerk verantwortlich.”* *Neue Zuercher Zeitung (Samstag/Sonntag, 12./13.Juni 1999) METACITY/DATATOWN is based on the video installation of the same title produced […]

  • Engagement + Stedenbouw

    Engagement + Stedenbouw

    Book cover for Pi de Bruijn ENGAGEMENT + STEDENBOUW. 2006.

  • Teaching Tool

    Teaching Tool

    This book, made for OMA’s 100% schematic design of Universal Building in 1997, nowadays functions as a teaching tool for classes given at the Architecture School, Akademie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam by Paul Ouwerkerk. The collage approach of treating the material still stands today, 20 years after the fact. Young students are inspired by the […]