CLEVER°FRANKE BLOG

Thomas presenting at the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek congress

2012-02-03T11:22:00.000+01:00

Spread in FPO award catalog

2011-12-16T14:13:00.002+01:00

This month we wrote an article about data visualization for Webdesigner magazine

2011-12-15T17:03:00.003+01:00

Our Xmas tree is up!

2011-12-15T12:06:00.000+01:00

Visualization test of webanalytics

2011-11-28T18:17:00.001+01:00

Some of the dozens of sketches of our new Weather Chart

2011-11-21T14:25:00.000+01:00

Just came back from the printers: Visual identity for 'The adventures Mr. Soundmount'

2011-11-17T14:39:00.001+01:00

We created a name and visual identity for this furniture maker and artist.

A new interactive weather visualization (work in progress)

2011-11-04T09:50:00.001+01:00

New business cards just came in!

2011-10-31T14:36:00.001+01:00

Hubrecht Institute identity published in 'Relogo' book by Sandu Publishing

2011-10-17T15:25:00.001+02:00

Check: http://www.sandu360.com/design360en/publicationshow_en.php?id=69

Outsourcing Performance publication for Giarte just came in

2011-10-14T09:36:00.001+02:00

Weather Charts published in new Gestalten book

2011-10-10T12:06:00.001+02:00

We are proud to see our weather charts published in the new Gestalten book named 'Visual Storytelling'!
Check out your local bookstore or http://shop.gestalten.com/shopwindow/visual-storytelling.html

Expothesis book for Expodium and MaHKU

2011-10-10T11:27:00.000+02:00

Weather Chart design progress update

2011-09-29T17:46:00.001+02:00

First test for new Weather Chart

2011-09-19T14:59:00.001+02:00

First sketch for journal portfolio visualization

2011-09-14T19:10:00.001+02:00

ID Pure magazine start this month with an article about our Hubrecht Institute Identity

2011-09-09T11:46:00.001+02:00

Tasteful piechart! Big thanks to Larísa, Choi and Jasper!

2011-06-15T13:49:00.002+02:00

Our new office!

2011-06-06T14:19:00.000+02:00

Our new office!

2011-06-06T14:18:00.002+02:00

Our new office!

2011-06-06T14:18:00.001+02:00

Our new office!

2011-06-06T14:18:00.000+02:00

We've updated our Vimeo account with some visualizing experiments

2011-05-30T15:40:00.001+02:00

Check out our experiments at Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/cleverfranke/videos

Some label testing for a new bag brand

2011-05-18T21:28:00.000+02:00

Weather Chart wins a silver European Design Award

2011-05-15T09:58:00.002+02:00

We're proud to announce that last night our Weather Chart won a silver award at the European Design Awards.

New publication for artist Ruth Sacks

2011-05-11T17:16:00.000+02:00

SEE Conference #6 - part 1

2011-04-14T16:40:00.001+02:00

Last weekend I visited the See Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany. A one day inspirational conference on data visualization. Great setting and great lectures! For more pictures, check out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeconference/
- TC

Lecture CLEVER°FRANKE 12 April Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam

2011-04-04T10:21:00.001+02:00

Op uitnodiging van BNO Spellbound zullen wij op dinsdagavond 12 april een lezing houden in Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam. De titel van de lezing luidt 'Inzichtelijke chaos: complexiteit als basis voor een ontwerp'. Tijdens deze lezing zullen wij nader ingaan op het ontstaan van ons bureau, ons werk en onze werkwijze.

Check: bno.nl/spellbound

KNMI visit VI

2011-03-29T23:01:00.002+02:00

KNMI visit III

2011-03-29T23:01:00.001+02:00

KNMI visit II

2011-03-29T23:01:00.000+02:00

KNMI visit I

2011-03-29T23:00:00.000+02:00

We were invited to the KNMI (Royal Dutch Metreological Institute) for a guide tour of their facilities as a thank you for sending our weather chart. Fantastic and inspiring.... oh, and we got to touch a meteor. Very cool!

Presentation of the first release of the SNS Bank Dashboard @WAC2011

2011-03-18T10:06:00.002+01:00

New weather chart printed

2011-02-05T15:45:00.001+01:00

Our weather chart just came from the printer and we are very happy with the end result!

Publication

2011-01-21T14:59:00.000+01:00

Index Books from Barcelona published one of our projects in their new book "Common Interest: Documents, design and format solutions for the arts, culture academia and charities". A well designed publication so thanks Index Books for selecting our work!

AJP dinner

2011-01-21T14:57:00.000+01:00

Last week, we had a great dinner with the whole AJP team to celebrate our collaboration on the Academische Jaarprijs (Academic Annual Award). Unfortunately we came runner up, but spirits were still high as we closed a great chapter after 6 months of hard work!

Goodbye old website; Hello new website!

2011-01-11T11:10:00.004+01:00

After almost 3 years of steady hard work, our old website is now
brought to the rest-home and we drove in a silky creamy new one! Enjoy
the new website, check; http://www.cleverfranke.com. In the coming weeks all texts will be added.

Sometimes one finds one's work in unexpected places; i.e. this infographic made in 2008

2011-01-07T17:14:00.002+01:00

Design of thesis for Lieke Hassink-Franke

2010-12-02T12:04:00.000+01:00

Working hard to shoot photo's of our portfolio for our new website

2010-12-02T11:00:00.001+01:00

Yesterday 3 of our designs won the Amsterdam DNA designcontest award

2010-11-26T10:05:00.004+01:00

Yesterday 3 of our designs won the Amsterdam DNA designcontest award

2010-11-26T10:01:00.000+01:00

The 3 design will be printed as 'American Express Cards Welcome'
stickers. And distributed to all American Express accepting companies
in Amsterdam.

Meeting about new C°F website

2010-11-24T09:24:00.001+01:00

Talking to our programmer about our new site! Will be launched soon!

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:50:00.000+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:41:00.001+01:00

Last wednesday the UMCG team 'Genenkrakers' came second in the prestigious Academische Jaarprijs 2010 (Academic Year Price 2010). We were responsible for the design of the DNA train with which the team wanted to travel all around the Netherlands.

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:38:00.000+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:36:00.002+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:36:00.000+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:34:00.001+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:33:00.000+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T16:06:00.000+01:00

DNA museum train design

2010-11-01T14:48:00.000+01:00

We dropped of some new banners at Eyos HQ

2010-10-28T14:21:00.000+02:00

we've arrived at AJP 2010

2010-10-27T20:12:00.000+02:00

Meeting with user intelligence about our new website

2010-10-27T11:35:00.000+02:00

Design by Fire 2010

2010-10-18T17:49:00.000+02:00

Last Wednesday we attended the Design by Fire conference. A good day full of inspiration!

CLEVER°FRANKE zoekt grafisch ontwerper!

2010-10-06T16:00:00.001+02:00

voor meer info check: http://www.cleverfranke.com/simple/vacancies/

PICNIC 2010

2010-10-01T14:24:00.000+02:00

We were at PICNIC 2010 this year giving a presentation about one of our new projects!

New Eyos logo

2010-09-01T14:49:00.002+02:00

For the second time in row we win a Red Dot Award! This year for the Hubrecht Institute identity!

2010-08-23T17:12:00.007+02:00

For more information and images please view our portfolio.

We helpt the UMCG and the RUG to design and build worlds first DNA bar (as a part of the theatre festival Noorderzon)!

2010-08-23T16:59:00.002+02:00

More info:
www.genenkraken.nl
www.rug.nl/umcg/faculteit/disciplinegroepen/medischegenetica/
www.academischejaarprijs.nl

Photoshoot of object for identity project

2010-08-17T16:23:00.001+02:00

Illustration work for Bright Magazine

2010-06-14T18:03:00.003+02:00

European Design Conference

2010-06-08T14:55:00.000+02:00

Last weekend Thomas attended the European Design Conference in Rotterdam. A great success with inspiring presentations!

DHVgroup.com & DHV.nl went live!

2010-04-29T10:57:00.007+02:00

-> www.dhvgroup.com
-> www.dhv.nl

The following months all the different national websites (China, Poland, Portugal, India, Israel, etc.) will go live.

CLEVER°FRANKE did the visual & strategic concept & further visual design. All in in close corporation with User Intelligence Amsterdam.

Information & Interaction design -> User Intelligence
Technical realization -> E-Office
HTML production -> Lukkien

Underground infographic

2010-04-27T09:49:00.000+02:00

Fresh from the Press

2010-04-16T14:15:00.001+02:00

Just in from the printer: small new identity for Bureau Pasman. 2 PMS colours, one typeface, one weight.

Weatherchart by CLEVER°FRANKE

2010-04-10T15:06:00.006+02:00

Over the past few months, we have greatly enjoyed sifting through and translating the various types of data for this weatherchart. Hopefully, alongside an actual representation of the whole, our choices in formal language, ink and paper have led to an intriguing image.

Specifications:
Design and concept by CLEVER°FRANKE
Printed by Zwaan Printmedia
Typeface: Neutral
Size: 70 x 100 cm
Frontside: 4 PMS colors + UV spot
Backside: 4 PMS colors
Paper: Arctic volume white 150 gr/m2

» Order here »

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Raymond Burger

2010-04-10T01:16:00.001+02:00

Our good friend Raymond 'Brand Meister' Burger was trying to find a flaw in our weather chart. Kept him quiet for some time. In the mean time got the opportunity to check out his office with loads of inspiring sketches that make you wanna get behind the drawing board again.

Chris Vermaas & Chin-Lien Chen

2010-04-09T01:16:00.000+02:00

Dropped off a weather chart at professor Chris and his wife Chin of 'Office of CC'. Our weather chart received a prominent spot in their living room! What more can we wish for?!

Wall Hubrecht Intitute allmost finished

2010-03-22T12:34:00.000+01:00

Book also in Barça!

2010-03-08T14:43:00.001+01:00

Yes, our business cards are also featured in the shops of Barça!

DHUB

2010-03-08T14:40:00.000+01:00

Familiar with the identity of DHUB because of some blog posts, I ran into the real life thing in a small street in Barça. Besides a good identity, the gallery / museum is well worth a visit!

Thomas visits Estudio Mariscal

2010-03-08T14:34:00.000+01:00

On my trip to the fantastic city of Barcelona I met up with Santi from Estudio Mariscal for a nice tour of their workspace!

Design and Design award

2010-03-08T12:34:00.000+01:00

Design and Design Yearbook finally came in today! Recently we received a 'Design and Design' award and are now published in the yearbook.

Visiting the infographic congress 2010 in Zeist

2010-03-05T21:46:00.000+01:00

C°F Weather Charts ready for departure

2010-02-26T14:28:00.001+01:00

Our businesscards where published in the book: 'My own businesscards - Designers Only'

2010-02-25T18:11:00.000+01:00

Article in nrc next about 'I believe in 88' (book design by us)

2010-02-24T10:37:00.000+01:00

Weather chart came in from the printer

2010-02-23T15:26:00.000+01:00

Searching for an album cover

2010-02-11T08:51:00.001+01:00

Chris Vermaas & Thomas looking for that one album cover...

Hubrecht wall sketch

2010-02-03T09:26:00.000+01:00

next stage of our weathermap

2010-01-27T09:27:00.000+01:00

Undergroundtrain print finished!

2010-01-20T11:21:00.001+01:00

Progress metro 3

2010-01-17T17:21:00.000+01:00

Progress metro 2

2010-01-17T16:37:00.000+01:00

Progress Underground train

2010-01-15T18:27:00.001+01:00

progress weathermap

2010-01-15T13:11:00.000+01:00

initial temperature data is updated...

process weathermap

2010-01-15T12:44:00.000+01:00

Working hard on our weathermap. We placed the first few days into our indesign grid. Coming along slowly but surely!

Gene vizualisation

2010-01-11T17:25:00.001+01:00

Designing a subway print

2010-01-11T17:22:00.000+01:00

C°F Weather map

2010-01-11T17:05:00.001+01:00

We're busy designing a weather map. Here is an initial image of our programming test! Exciting stuff!

Snow at UMC Groningen

2010-01-08T14:32:00.000+01:00

View at Fortis Bank Nederland Utrecht

2010-01-07T16:51:00.001+01:00

View at Reed Elsevier Amsterdam

2010-01-06T14:52:00.000+01:00

View at CLEVER°FRANKE Utrecht

2010-01-05T15:19:00.000+01:00

Groeten!

2009-12-22T11:20:00.001+01:00

Geheel volgens traditie van de afgelopen dagen, leggen wij ook het werk tijdelijk stil. Tot volgend jaar!

Road trip part 4

2009-12-16T11:07:00.000+01:00

Road trip part 3

2009-12-16T11:06:00.001+01:00

Road trip part 2

2009-12-16T11:04:00.001+01:00