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It is always time for Dutch Design

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Dutch Design Week

How to make Dutch Design Week relevant at all times?

Dutch Design Foundation has chosen Vruchtvlees as its digital innovation partner to stay ahead and create more impact as an organization. In close collaboration, we create new ways for Dutch Designers to connect and interact with manufacturers and visitors. 

The brief

  • Challenge us to create the most innovative digital brand experience and bring it to life at all digital touchpoints.
  • Think holistically and smart: a minimum viable product is a great start.
  • Enable cross-platform integrations for a steady and easy user flow, both for the community as the visitors. 

 

Digital consultancy - Digital Identity - UX/UI Design - Service Design - Front-End Development - Back-End Development

Continuously moving forward: Design Time

Design is constantly in motion, reacting to what's happening in society and what needs to be redefined. To increase the brand experience of Dutch Design Week online, we are building the website on the foundation of Design Time.

 

Different phases, different user experience

Design Time means that the website and user experience moves throughout different phases of the year, in service of the participating designers. This way, the website is not only relevant during the festival itself, but functions as a stable beacon for the design community.

 

The concept of Design Time influences the choices in development, content algorithm and user experience. The website algorithm for example showcases content dynamically, depending on user interaction, relevance or editorial calendars.


It’s always time for design, learn more about the strategic concept →

Cross-platform integration

Dutch Design Week is just one of the manifestations of Dutch Design Foundation. Dutch Design Awards, What If! Lab, World Design Embassies, all function within one CRM-system. In the back-end, we’ve developed a stable connection between all these manifestations with the use of an API. This enables Dutch Design Foundation to do cross-platform promotions, and services the design community to create a single log-in storing all the necessary information in one place.

 

*What if Lab challenges the business community and design world to come up with specific answers to current issues. Build on the same principles as the Dutch Design Week website, we created a platform to make these ideas a reality. Find out more about What if Lab →  

Smooth serverless

From this strategic base, we are able to continuously optimise one experience at a time, shifting focus from the DDW visitor to participating designers or to enhance tools for the professional community. Thanks to our serverless-environment, the digital platform is able to welcome millions of users in a fraction of a second.

 

In development we always focus on performance, loading time and mobile usage, enabling the possibility to welcome millions of visitors in a blink of an eye.More about the technical set-up can be found in the Dutch Magazine Emerce. 

A collaboration of this kind requires enormous trust in each other’s abilities. We had to build the bridge as we walked on it. Over the years, we have formed a strong partnership, which is why we dared to take on such ambitious projects together with Vruchtvlees.

Mark de Greeff, Chief Marketing Officer Dutch Design Week

Building sensory spaces: a virtual design extravaganza

 

With the back-end in place, it’s the user experience where the brand Dutch Design Week comes to life. Edition 2020 opened the doors to the biggest virtual design festival in the world. With the use of smart tooling like Vimeo embeds, we bypassed expensive subscription models. The real-time program moves with the program, scheduled by both the organisation as the participating designers.

750 Unique experiences

The Dutch Design community could easily schedule a live stream, chat or create a digital exhibition, and add it to the digital program themselves. To create tangible experiences online, we need to redefine what makes a space. The designers set an ambiance by playing with colours, the shape of the room (sharp and edgy or round and warm) and the amount of light, sound and video. With a custom build interface and presets, designers can personalize their digital exhibitions with ease.

 

How do you create a tangible experience? The idea of virtual light was the subject of long, interesting discussions at Vruchtvlees. And pioneers like Nite Hotel, Wolfenstein 3D and the iconic Windows screensaver set the right tone. Dive into the concept of 3D rooms →

The results are promising every year:

 

  • Online conversions have increased by 200%.
  • Time on site grows every year, with an average of 6:20 minutes in the 2020 edition.
  • 750 digital exhibitions were created, forming a total length of 126.307 kilometers.

With the use of What If Lab, designers Imke Sloos, Anna Dienemann and The Incredible Machine Design Studio brought to life innovative solutions for a social distanced event. 

 

As soon as the festival ends, we start working on the backlog for the next edition. We keep learning from the data and user feedback and continuously evaluate and evolve on making Dutch Design on Demand a reality.  


Dutch Design Week is a collaborative effort between Dutch Design Foundation, Vruchtvlees (Digital Design & Web Development) Yorit Kluitman & Johan Moorman (brand identity), Damon van Drimmelen (CGI), Blickfänger (Video), Niels Groenendijk (motion) and Frank Sens (sound). 

Michael Danker

Co-founder - Digital Director

Michael would love to tell you more about this project

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michael@vruchtvlees.com

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ANP

For over 85 years, ANP has been the fundamental news source in the Netherlands. More than 95% of Dutch news media depend on its services, making ANP the largest independent press agency in the country. Dutch readers might recognise its name as the source mentioned in tiny letters below newspaper photography or items. What the organisation truly stands for and how it operates, however, has been unclear to most.

Knowing how and where to access factually accurate news is now more urgent than ever. As fake news and deep fakes find their way into our social media timelines, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate fact from hoax. We are dependent on organisations like ANP for news we can trust.


Time for the word to get out. With a renewed brand identity and overall strategy by Vruchtvlees, ANP is getting a boost in visibility. ANP’s overarching brand story is now central to all communication, both internal and external, supported by an entirely new website and photo platform. For once, ANP makes the headlines.

Dynamic brand identity

ANP offers a wide range of services. As more products were introduced over time, its plethora of sub-labels had become challenging to navigate. To strengthen the overall brand, we have fully restructured ANP’s offerings, working with a single brand strategy. With its commercial and journalistic activities united under one overarching story, ANP’s renewed brand strategy covers the organisation from all angles.


----> Get a peek behind the scenes of our ANP rebranding (in Dutch)

ANP makes factual news accessible to any media brand and company. With its new slogan ‘Start with the facts’, ANP urges anyone involved in news distribution to start from a factually accurate basis.

Straight to the source


ANP is thé source for fact-checked news in the Netherlands. Whether you’re listening to a radio broadcast, reading a news item, or monitoring information with ANP360+, it all starts from the same fundamental source. In our visual identity for ANP, the source is represented by a point (or dot). All visual elements flow from this central starting point. The source underscores and points out the facts, making a point against fake news.

Advocate for factual accuracy

With its identity and strategy, ANP is claiming its position as a prominent force in the Dutch media landscape. As a leader in the production and distribution of factually accurate news, ANP urges anyone with a platform and voice to start with the facts. With a clearly defined tone-of-voice, Vruchtvlees has streamlined all of ANP’s copywriting on the website and beyond. A brand new content strategy and newly developed content formats make it easy for ANP to showcase what it stands for across all channels.

Optimised for conversion

ANP’s website is fully targeted towards potential B2B clients. A variety of landing pages guides visitors towards the information relevant to their specific needs, in a user-friendly way. All of the website’s copywriting puts the visitor first, guiding them towards the right solution for them. ANP’s story shines through in all of the website’s photography and bold quotes, but the focus is always on guiding the visitor towards conversion.

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From web architecture to interior design

From splash-screens in the app to stationary sets: ANP’s new identity has been implemented throughout all layers of its brand. Even its office interior and signage in the Hague look the part. And that’s not all: all of its effects are now measurable. From now on, ANP starts with the facts, even when it comes to its marketing strategy.

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