Five prizes in two months

Communication design / Awards

Fabrique Communication and Design have won an unprecedented number of prizes during the last two months.

By Editor Design.nl / 24-05-2007

Fabrique Communication and Design have won an unprecedented number of prizes during the last two months.

Various projects by the company have been awarded, respectively, a European Design Award, Best of the Web Award, ADC Merit Award, Red dot Product Design Award and an iF Communication Design Award. The winning projects were selected by juries in San Francisco, New York, Athens and Essen.

The European Design Award was given to the design of the visual identity of pop venue Effenaar in the Brand Implementation category. The jury also handed a Merit Award to the www.rembrandt-caravaggio.nl website, made for an exhibition of the same name on a commission of the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum.

A Merit Award was also handed to the website at the 86th edition of the Art Directors Club Awards in New York. The exhibition displays points of similarity and difference in the work of Rembrandt and Caravaggio by exploring a number of ‘sets’ of paintings. The site offers more opportunities to look at and compare aspects of the two painters’ work than the exhibition itself.
Fabrique had already received the ‘Best of the Web’ award in the ‘Best on-line exhibition’ category for its Rembrandt-Caravaggio design, presented at the Museums and the Web conference in San Francisco. Project leader Matthijs Klinkert and technical director Paul Stork were there to receive the prize.

Fabrique also won prizes at iF Product Design Awards and the Red dot Product Design Awards in Germany for the Modular sound screens it developed for the Directorate-General of Public Works and Water Management. The modular sound screens offer a solution to the problem of sound screen fragmentation on highways. The screens have two front sides and consist of an ingenious ‘building box’ of stands and panels. A variety of sound screens can be made, each with its own appearance and acoustical qualities, from various combinations of a limited number of standard elements. An iF Communication Design Award 2007 went to the design for a new visual identity for the Jenever Museum. In its concept, Fabrique associated a number of essential emotional qualities with the authentic character of Jenever, or Dutch gin. The combination of historical images with clear typography and colours creates a field of tension between history and the present.