blauw-architecten.nl

Date

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Modified

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Client

Blauw Architects

City

Utrecht

Year

2008

Link

blauw-architecten.nl

Keywords

Graphic Design (28), Web Design (20), Editorial (12), Print Design (5), Content Management System (9), Grid System (9)

Social

Permalink, Email, Facebook, Google, Twitter

Blauw Architects is the Utrecht-based agency of Carin Ter Beek and Roel Lichtenberg. Blauw primarily works on assignments in the private sector.

They asked me to design a website.

Visual Design

As an architect, Olympic medal winner Carin is interested in situation-specific design solutions and the way in which the user experiences a space. Roel works from research into materiality and applications. In 2008 they founded their agency. They wanted to visualize their cooperation and their personal, pragmatic work method on their website.

I have made a grid system that allows for text blocks and images to be placed anywhere on the page. Instead of using a uniform template, each page on the website has its own layout.

On the project pages, Roel and Carin talk—separately and together—about their individual starting points and how these result in collaborative designs.

Structural Design

The website roughly consists of two types of pages:
–  List views in which all documents of a certain type are summarized e.g. the Work page;
–  Detail pages that contain images and project descriptions e.g. this project page.

The site does not use a CMS, but is CMS-prepared. This means that a CMS can quickly and easily be implemented without having to make changes to other parts of the site. In this way, the investment in a website can be spread over time.

The system uses XML to store information, allowing updates to be made in minutes.

Image - blauw-architecten.nl

 

Document - lauraweeber.nl

 

lauraweeber.nl

Date

Friday, March 20, 2009

Modified

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Keywords

Graphic Design (28), Web Design (20), Grid System (9)

In her work, Laura researches applicable systems that result in natural variability and variety. This controlled irregularity—that is also present in her house style—was the starting point for the design. More…

Document - jorislandman.com Goes Live

 

jorislandman.com Goes Live

Date

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Keywords

Graphic Design (28), Web Design (20), News (17)

As of today, the renewed site for jorislandman.com is live. More…

Document - Conversation Piece - Contemporary Ceramics Based on Dutch Old Master Paintings from the Wallace Collection

 

Conversation Piece

Contemporary Ceramics Based on Dutch Old Master Paintings from the Wallace Collection

Date

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Keywords

Graphic Design (28), Print Design (5), News (17)

Recently, I’ve been working on an art project, designing and realizing ceramics for British national museum the Wallace Collection and Bonhams auctioneers, over a five-week period at Sundaymorning@ekwc. We're proud to present our results. More…

Document - Site in Web Design Catalog - Web Design Index 10

 

Site in Web Design Catalog

Web Design Index 10

Date

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Keywords

Graphic Design (28), Web Design (20), News (17)

The website that I made for Tettero Art Consultants will be featured in the upcoming edition of the annual Web Design Index by Content, a comprehensive catalog of international web design classified by content, in eleven languages and with a circulation of 25,000 copies. More…