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Work

Bol.com

WK polonaise
By order of Etcetera we developed an online environment for Bol.com: a virtual polonaise from The Netherlands to South Africa. We are aiming to become the longest online procession ever. Everybody can join by uploading a picture and selecting a character.

We designed and developed the campaign site. The trip features two minigames that users have to play to arrive in South Africa. They have to tarzan their way over a river filled with crocs in Cameroon and play ball to get from Tarifa to Tanger.

Microsoft

Are you a Superwoman?
Windows Phone and Hotmail teamed up and asked all busy women in The Netherlands the question 'are you in control?' To let them find out, Red Urban came up with a special campaign game in which the player is centered in a hectic life. Red Urban asked us to produce this game.

All kinds of messages come from different sides. The player is challenged to answer each message correct on a Windows phone. If they manage to do so, they can win the main price: quality time!

Brabantia

Campaign Brabantia Binball
Brabantia stands as a company that typifies durable solutions and lasting values, which is why all their products carry a long-term guarantee.  Advertising agency Etcetera came up with a playful concept for a video contest called Brabantia Binball. With four viral videos they trigger the target group to join the contest and to upload their own videos.

In order to keep participation easily accessible we created a webcam application with which users are able to create their own ending. We took care of both the design and the production of the campaign that consist of four viral videos, a campaign site, a banner campaign and a mailing. The videos were created together with director Maurice Trouwborst and 3D-artist Tim van der Wiel.

bol.com

Whistle you way trough bol.com
Shopping at Bol.com is really easy. Etcetera came up with a game concept to illustrate this and they asked us for the creation. By whistling in your microphone you fly trough the world of bol.com. During your flight you have to catch at least five of eight objects to get a chance of winning a price.

Buro Knapzak created a globe with our 3D artist Tim van der Wiel. Furthermore we designed the game interface and developed the game.

RTL - Radio 538

Promo Evers in Vancouver
Edwin Evers, one of Holland’s most popular radio DJ’s, is going to broadcast live from the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We were asked to develop a promo, which is going to be aired on the Dutch commercial television channels RTL5 and RTL7.

With a concept written by RTL and a pair of old fashioned ice skates on us we drove to the picturesque city of Dalfsen to stand up to the bleak weather of the Dutch lowlands. Even though Edwin Evers and Olympic hero Falko Zandstra left early with frostbitten body parts, we are happy to present you this short motion picture of Dutch folklore.

Binnenlands Bestuur

Live RSS-banners
Binnenlands Bestuur, the biggest platform of Kluwer, is actively trying to bring in new members. As a part of this we were asked to develop a banner campaign.

One of the most important unique selling points of Binnenlands Bestuur is that they provide their target group with line specific newsfeed. We came up with a concept that connects this content to a banner, namely RSS-banners. The three latest news scoops are showed in a carrousel followed by the pay-off.

The Spoken Project

Teaser
The Spoken Project remixes spoken word with music. They came up with a new album, Spoken by dr. Birgit Lühr, and asked us to create a teaser. Our friends Bob Joosten, Koen Knevel and Martijn Hogenkamp joined us and we came up with a concept that fuses live action, typeface and animation.

The Spoken Project aims on reinventing learning and change the way knowledge is being absorbed and processed. To that end they reinterpret themes and topics that move people with a combination of sounds, music and images. Each topic is waiting to be interpreted in a new way. On first sight this may sound like pure chaos. In reality it is exactly the way our brain works, combining content in a non-linear manner. There are no boundaries between different themes, sounds and pictures...and it is precisely this concept, which serves as the basis for The Spoken Project.

Universiteit Twente

Animation
Studio Dumbar developed a new visual identity for Universiteit Twente. They asked us to translate their graphical concept into motion design. We teamed up with motion director Martijn Hogenkamp and so we did...

Together with the animation, we created a Flash-presentation and produced a video in which Studio Dumbars strategy director Tom Dorresteijn tells about the concept of the new identity.

AIM

Video content Amsterdam Smart City
For quite some time now we are working for and together with INDG on several projects. This time INDG asked us to create video content for the Amsterdam Smart City project.

The teaser tells us about the Klimaatstraat project and shows the near future of the city, with a focus on sustainability and environment in our capital. INDG, an Amsterdam based 3D-agency, is responsible for the 3D-animation and implementation.

Volkswagen

Banner campaign
Achtung! asked us to create video content for banner ads of Volkswagen company cars.

The banners are about Volkswagen giving a substantial discount if you trade in your old company car for a new one.

Binnenlands Bestuur

Animation De VacatureManager
Binnenlands Bestuur, the biggest brand of Kluwer, introduces De VacatureManager. The independent and complete human resource platform for governmental organizations. We teamed up with motion director Martijn Hogenkamp and made the infomercial.

The infomercial gives customers of Binnenlands Bestuur a clear and pleasant view on the most important functions of this platform.

State Magazine

Documentary Grillz
For State Magazine and Submarine's channel minimovies.org we produced a documentary about the hiphop phenomenon grillz. The documentary is broadcasted on the digital channel minimovies.org.

Fronts, golds, plates, shines, caps, slugs, pullouts. Call it what you want, just put your money where your mouth is and let it shine. This documentary brings the bling bling to the screen and documents the history and popularity of mouth jewelry in hip-hop and beyond. From New York in the early Eighties to the Dirty South and the streets of Amsterdam.

Volkswagen

Video content Volkswagen Innovations
The campaign Volkswagen Innovations allows consumers to experience what the techniques of Volkswagen actually do for you.

Not by telling or explaining them, but by letting you choose the relevant techniques in situations you really need them the most... Achtung! created the website for the campaign and asked us to come up with the video content. For both the website and banner ads, video is a substantial part of the project.

Freeband Communications & IIPIC

Animation The Ambient Life
Freeband Communications & IIPIC asked us to come up with a video that visualizes the results they achieved the past four years and gives a speak preview of the future.

In The Ambient Life we share with you a vision of the future: a world in which information and communication technology renders peoples surroundings into a thinking and caring environment. For this project we teamed up  with Martijn Hogenkamp again.

Kluwer

Campaign Kluwer Topfiscalist
To recruit high potentials Kluwer started the programme Kluwer Topfiscalist. We created an on- and offline campaign with a focus on photography.

A mix of media, including print, banner ads and a website was developed to trigger new talent to participate.

Skoda

Video content Skoda Superb
Achtung asked us to create the video content for an minisite for the new Skoda Superb. The new Superb was revealed on this site.

Video is an important aspect on the website. Depending on the users choice, you make a flight over the car releasing the requested information.

Binnenlands Bestuur

Campaign Masterclasses
Binnenlands Bestuur is the biggest brand of Kluwer, a Wolters Kluwer business. They got a new website and asked us to create a new design for the Masterclasses part.

Masterclasses are excusive network meetings for governors, senior officials and managers of mostly governmental organizations. It is an integral part of Binnenlands Bestuur. We created a concept in which the master and his network are are the central element. It contains print, banner ads, video, an exclusive mailing page for the masters and a website.

Volkswagen

Video content VW Snake
For the new campaign of Volkswagen Achtung! created an online videogame. The game is based on the well known mobile phone game Snake. We created the video content.

Kluwer

Online campaign Mijn Abonnementen
Kluwer has improved their web environment Mijn Abonnementen. Mijn Abonnementen is a tool on kluwer.nl where professionals can access their subscriptions online. They asked us to develop a campaign that highlights the biggest changes.

Several features of this online catalogue are renewed. Also handy new features are added. The campaign consists of an online infomercial, banner ads and a email template. We teamed up with designer and director Martijn Hogenkamp to develop the campaign.

O'Neill

Photography E-shop
Achtung! developed the E-shop for O'Neill. They asked us to take care of the photography of the winter collection 2008.

Skoda

Short film
Skoda is the graduation film of Rob Lucker. Together with Hazazah, Holland Equipment, Condor and Het Licht we are sponsoring the project. In cooperation with Hazazah we did the production management and we made the website.

Skoda is a dark film about two people struggling with the problems they face in everyday life. Fester, the protagonist, is a tormented and frustrated person. He just needs a bit of luck, joy and happiness. His defensive attitude however blocks the success of the chances he is trying to pull of. He gets in touch with Stephen, his neighbour. Together they attempt to cope with their problems, but that appears far more complicated than expected and ends up in situations that hurts to the bone.

Chocomel

Video content Chocomel Hot
Achtung! made the website for Chocomel. A new product to their range is Chocomel Hot which is easy to make with any Senseo-machine. The only thing you need to know is what container belongs to which device.

That’s why they asked us to come up with video content for an instruction video. The video is shown on the site of Chocomel at the productpage of Chocomel Hot.

Schiphol Airport

Video content Heldere Kijk Op Schiphol
We developed video content for the website Heldere Kijk Op Schiphol for Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The assignment was commissioned by our good friends at Achtung!

Achtung! designed the website, which gives interested parties a clear view on the results of the possible growth and non-growth of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, based upon the theme: Schiphol and you, the future and now. From four different angles the effects of extension and stagnation of growth are portrayed by interactive videos and graphics.

Verzekeringsblad

Digital Channel VBTV
We were asked to develop VBTV. The online digital channel for the insurance market. Het Verzekeringsblad is one of the magazines of Kluwer, a Wolters Kluwer business.

VBTV is a community where the target group can watch a wide range of video content on insurance related issues. We produced the content, created the identity as well as a leader and developed the digital channel.

Thom Broekman

TV Commercial
Thom Broekman has men fashion stores all over The Netherlands, but Utrecht is their hometown. Therefore they sponsored the region soap of the local television station in Utrecht. Part of the agreement was that they were given air time before and after broadcasting the soap.

We made the TV commercial. We created a small story based upon the soap's storyline. It features Jean Paul de Jong, a club icon of FC Utrecht.

Vakantie

Short film
Vakantie is a short fiction film written by Marcel van der Velden and Bastiaan Mast. We produced the movie, which has a well known Dutch cast: Frits Lambrechts, Myrianna of Reeden and Herman Boerman.

Vakantie tells about a grandfather who baby-sits his two game addicted grandchildren. During these two days, he tries to disengage the kids from the virtual world and bring them closer to the experience of childhood he had himself. This results in a story of life in a sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholic way.

Friesland Foods

Virals Daybreakers
During the new campaign of Breaker great prizes were given away every day. Virals we made gave a humoristic impression of the content of these prices.

The assignment was commissioned by Achtung!

Sony BMG

Video content Krezip Musicbox
Achtung! created an online videogame for the Dutch band Krezip. The game was developed to promote their new single and was based on an old musicbox.

We made the video content for this project, which you can still play. Give it a try and spin the wheel.

Ladybird

Short film
Ladybird is a short fiction film written and directed by Maurice Trouwborst. We produced the movie.

The film makes fun of Dutch youngsters who are called Lonsdale jongeren (kids wearing clothing of this Brittish sports brand supposed to do so because of racist motives).

HKU

Ondergrond.org
During graduation in 2006 we did a project commissioned by Telematica Instituut. They asked us to create a digital archive for cultural heritage, based on web 2.0 principles. We created a folksonomy to archive, tag and expose street art.

To explain how the system works a video was created.

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News

05.04.10
Our work at Citruscel Florida
The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival celebrates animation as a cultural and commercial medium with three days (April 9-11) of screenings, parties and panels in Jacksonville, ...
01.02.10
New office for Buro Knapzak
The first of February we moved into our brand new office in Amsterdam East. A space that suits our ambitions. We’ll drop you a line about the grand opening soon, but feel free to come by anytime.
09.12.09
Interview in Embrosyst Magazine
Today Embrosyst Magazine #6 was published in which they feature 16-page long article about our work. When your Indonesian is as bad as ours: don’t worry. ...
07.12.09
The Spoken Project on XPLSV
Great news from Spain. The video we made for The Spoken Project is Video Of The day at XPLSV.TV the 12th of December.
02.12.09
Follow us on Twitter!
Would you like to keep up-to-date about our latest news and other stuff we think is worth sharing? From today you can also follow us on Twitter. www.twitter.com/buroknapzak.
01.11.09
Universiteit Twente in Computer Arts
The animation we created for Universiteit Twente is featured in this month’s issue of Computer Arts magazine, issue #168. Next to our work, the magazine includes ...
28.10.09
New visual identity!
Finally. We have been working on it for quite a while, but we proudly present our renewed visual identity. Take a look around and let us know what you think.
08.10.09
Silver W3 Award for The Ambient Life
The winners of the W3 Awards have been announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts today.  Receiving nearly 3.000 entries, the W3 Awards honors ...
24.09.09
University Twente is Video Of The Day on XPLSV.TV
The animation we made for Universiteit Twente is Video Of The Day on XPLSV.TV. It is the second time we are selected. De VacatureManager, the animation we created for Kluwer, was chosen before.
07.09.09
FWA Theater Video Of The Day for Universiteit Twente
For the second time we are Video Of The Day at the FWA Theater. This time it concerns the animation we made for Universiteit Twente. The ...
01.07.09
Interview in CGMagazine
The Ambient Life recently was featured in the Chinese CGMagazine. They kept an eye on us and in this month’s 93rd edition you can find an ...
08.06.09
Two Webby Awards for Volkswagen Innovatie
Achtung! has been awarded two Webby Awards for Volkswagen Innovatie, a project we created the video content for.
11.05.09
De VacatureManager Video Of The Day on XPLSV.TV
The animation we created for Kluwer’s De VacatureManager is Video Of The Day on XPLSV.TV, a prestigious platform and inspirational resource focused on motion graphics, animations, demoscene, vfx, live visuals and any kind of cgi videos you can imagine.
08.05.09
Webby Award Honoree for The Ambient Life
The Ambient Life, the animation we created for Freeband Communications & IIPIC, was a Webby Award Official Honorree at the 13th Annual Webby Awards 2009 in ...
14.04.09
Silver ADCN Lamp for campaign Skoda Superb
In the category Interactive the campaign for Skoda Superb won a Silver ADCN Lamp. We made the video content for the website.
The Ambient Life in Chinese CGMagazine
In the 88th edition of the Chinese CGMagazine, a magazine about animation, vfx, design, film and more, our animation The Ambient Life is covered in detail. ...
01.12.08
The Ambient Life on Stash DVD Magazine
The Ambient Life is selected for the 51st edition of the renowned Canadian Stash DVD Magazine. An article is dedicated to it as well as the animation is included on the DVD.
05.11.08
Communication Man Of The Year 2008 nomination
Today it was announced that we are nominated for the title Communication Man Of The Year 2008 by Logeion, association for communications, and the magazine Communicatie.
31.10.08
The Ambient Life Video Of The Day on FWA Theater
The Ambient Life is Video Of The Day on the English FWA Theater, a video platform founded by the well known Favorite Website Awards.
07.09.08
The Ambient Life in Dutch magazine Creatie
The Ambient Life keeps drawing attention. Today the Dutch magazine Creatie sees the light of day and our animation is highlighted in an article.
26.09.08
Skoda wins Talent&Pro Award at Dutch Film Festival
Today Skoda, the short fiction movie directed by Rob Lucker, won the Talent&Pro Award at the Nederlands Film Festival. We co-produced this movie.
26.04.08
Silver ADCN Lamp for Krezip and Schiphol
Yesterday Krezip Music Box and Heldere Kijk Op Schiphol were awarded a Silver ADCN Lamp. For us this also meant partying all night, because we created ...