Autobahn

Autobahn Autobahn is a Dutch creative studio based in Amsterdam and Rotterdam with speciality in graphic design, branding, typography and strategic visual content.

Dutch (typo)graphic design studio Autobahn (NL, 2006) is named after the fictitious band in the movie ‘The Big Lebowski’. During art academy Maarten Dullemeijer (1982) and Rob Stolte (1981) started a band with several others, but soon decided that they’d better stick to designing. The project that had the most influence on their design thinking after they graduated from the School of the Arts Utre

cht (HKU) in 2005 was Freshfonts. Autobahn was invited to attend to a Pecha Kucha night. Autobahn decided not to give a portfolio presentation but to use the opportunity to start a new project. The idea was to use gravity to generate fonts that would be less and less readable. Result was a series of experimental type made with toothpaste, tomato ketchup and hair gel. The project turned into a bigger success than was foreseen but most important: their slumbering love for typography was awakened and fueled with a new mentality. Ever since, Autobahn takes the opportunity to expand to their new experimental mentality for typography in every assignment. Craft plays an important part of their daily design routine while they experiment with materials, production methods and re-inventing old techniques. Combine this exploration with a clear concept and big gestures, and it results in a typical Autobahn design.

Our Scriptorium project won first place at the Print Awards 2022!
30/08/2022

Our Scriptorium project won first place at the Print Awards 2022!

  The thousand manuscripts that we’ve collected with Scriptorium have been collected in these ten books. A serious body ...
01/07/2022

The thousand manuscripts that we’ve collected with Scriptorium have been collected in these ten books. A serious body of creative work by visitors of this typographic installation we designed for .






Today is National Composers Day in The Netherlands! Tune in to  for new music now. Also you can check out the largest gr...
18/06/2022

Today is National Composers Day in The Netherlands! Tune in to for new music now. Also you can check out the largest graphic score in the world at Utrecht central station.

24/05/2022

Although we are working with on their REIS magazine for almost four years now, the past year we’ve been busy creating a new visual identity for this Amsterdam based consultancy agency. A dynamic and dialectic identity based on personal branding and open communication. Want to see more? Read more on this case 👉 Link in bio.





First glimpse of the latest REIS magazine for . Printed with white and silver  ink on 120gr. Genious Black paper. A stir...
17/05/2022

First glimpse of the latest REIS magazine for . Printed with white and silver ink on 120gr. Genious Black paper. A stirdy and bulky edition of this annual publication.

At the printers today. The upcoming issue of  REIS magazine is printed by  on 120 gr. Genious Black with opaque white an...
04/05/2022

At the printers today. The upcoming issue of REIS magazine is printed by on 120 gr. Genious Black with opaque white and 807 (silver). After extensive proofing and lithography by we’ve found the best ink posession and image details.

  for the upcoming REIS magazine by . Printed with white and silver on 120gr. Genius Black. Really looking forward to th...
30/03/2022

for the upcoming REIS magazine by . Printed with white and silver on 120gr. Genius Black. Really looking forward to this edition. 🤩

08/12/2021

Work in progress…

02/11/2021

Other Futures 2021 is inspired by other spicies, ancestors and fluid worlds.

Exhibition: 23 oct - 11 nov
Festival: 5 & 6 nov
Venue:
Tickets: otherfutures.nl

Today we are at de  in Amsterdam, celebrating the soft opening of Spectres from Beyond. The exhibition is part of  2021....
22/10/2021

Today we are at de in Amsterdam, celebrating the soft opening of Spectres from Beyond. The exhibition is part of 2021.

Featured artists are Müge Yilmaz (NL/TR), Natasha Tontey (IN), Bie Michels (BE/CD), Mehraneh Atashi (NL/US/IR) and Jason Wee (SG).

You will be transported to different worlds and experience things from a variety of perspectives.You’ll witness ancestral rituals in which stones play the leading role and the first human was a woman instead of a man; you’ll step into a dystopian city that destroys itself in the name of progress and meet the Umay, the first black astronaut, amidst her books and memorabilia. You’ll be part of a performance in an installation with bricks, where the heavy materiality of the bricks introduced to Madagascar by a missionary in the nineteenth century turns back into dust. Through interventions, they become portable and almost weightless. And finally, you’ll have a chance to examine your own memories in the light of a new spectrum, in an installation that explores the relation between personal time and that of the world.

19/10/2021
The Sambal book we designed for  with  and  is longlisted for Golden Cookbook 2021 by ! If you’re into spicy stuff, you ...
15/10/2021

The Sambal book we designed for with and is longlisted for Golden Cookbook 2021 by ! If you’re into spicy stuff, you should defenately check out this book.

Adres

Voorhaven 27B
Rotterdam
3025HC

Openingstijden

Maandag 09:00 - 17:30
Dinsdag 09:00 - 17:30
Woensdag 09:00 - 17:30
Donderdag 09:00 - 17:30
Vrijdag 09:00 - 17:30

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