Michel de Boer presented Studio Dumbar’s work at Belgrade Design Week 2014. Studio Dumbar is one of the most award-winning design agencies.

Studio Dumbar is an international agency with a Dutch heritage. It creates brands that are seen and appreciated. They stand out in the cluttered market-landscape. This started in 1977, when Gert Dumbar founded the studio in The Hague.

Studio Dumbar creates meaningful brands. From strategy to reality. It has an innate drive to make outstanding work. Pure. Simple. Powerful.

Studio creates benchmarks for a diversity of clients: business, government, culture or non-profit; btb and btc.

Design is at the heart of what studio does. Studio’s work can be described as ‘visual branding, online branding’, meaning it creates every visible expression of a brand or organization — offline and online. This involves expertise in strategy, communication, branding and process-management.

Studio Dumbar attracts talented individuals from around the world. Over the years, this has lead to an endless run of remarkable personalities and projects. Studio’s portfolio is equally diverse, encompassing work for a variety of clients both large and small – from business and government to cultural and non-profit.

Studio Dumbar works in an online context. It is part of Dept, an international digital network that brings together the best agencies in creativity, technology and data.

http://studiodumbar.com/

Running in the morning through the city (down what the germans call a fussgangerzone) and being amazed by all the grand empty old buildings that reminded me of my Berlin beginnings. Grafitti on buildings. Lovely broken walls with acne'd facades from decades of reverse engineering. Discovering that all the ships on the river were party boats and open till the morning. Sweating so much in one of the clubs, my phone got messed up. Losing phone in said club. Visiting belgrade police station to report a then stolen phone to a twenty-something cop with a doctor's lab coat, listening to Rammstein (loudly) while hacking out my report on a pre-electric typewriter that looked (and sounded) as if it was from some era before typewriters were invented.   Thinking of Naked Lunch. Thinking of Die-Hard. Listening to architects talk about porous facades. Thinking of old smart bombs. Imagining the flash and crunch of several floors of reinforced concrete collapsing in on themselves. Wondering why I'm the only interactive guy here. Why are there so many beautiful women in Belgrade? Why are there so many beautiful women in Belgrade?!

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