• 	BRAND JWT Amsterdam PROJECT Corporate identity & stationary CO-PILOTS Bas Korsten & Jolande Tjeerdema

   

• 	BRAND EKlab / Ortec PROJECT Website CO-PILOTS Johannes Lamers & Harry Veenendaal

   

• 	BRAND Detron Group PROJECT Annual Report CO-PILOTS Vincent van Gurp & Eric Smit

   

• 	BRAND Oilily PROJECT Webshop CO-PILOTS Gijs de Kogel & Robbert de Smit

   

• 	BRAND The Perfect Steak PROJECT Cookbook CO-PILOTS Saskia van Osnabrugge & Marcus Polman

   

• 	BRAND Radar+ PROJECT Magazine CO-PILOTS Maarten van den Biggelaar & José Rozenbroek

   

• 	BRAND Jortkelder.nl PROJECT Website & STATIONARY CO-PILOTS Johannes Lamers & Robin van de Putte

   

• 	BRAND THE BANK / KROONENBERG GROEP PROJECT MAGAZINE CO-PILOTS JAN BAKKER & VINCENT VAN GURP

   

• 	BRAND Kunstbeeld PROJECT Redesign Magazine CO-PILOTS Roos van Put & Liesbeth Thomas

   

• 	BRAND Julia Claasz Cookson PROJECT Stationery & website CO-PILOTS Floris Beets

   

• 	BRAND Porsche PROJECT Magazine CO-PILOTS Marijn Jostmeijer & Han Thoma

   

• 	BRAND Followthemoney.nl PROJECT Logo & website CO-PILOTS Lizemijn Libgott & Robin van de Putte

   

• 	BRAND 925.nl PROJECT Website CO-PILOTS Robin van de Putte

   

• 	BRAND Sarah Meijler Jewelries PROJECT Website & stationery CO-PILOTS Robin van de Putte & Carlfried Verwaayen

   

• 	BRAND WPG Uitgevers PROJECT Annual Report CO-PILOTS Vincent van Gurp & Frank van Munster

   

• 	BRAND Thailand Villas PROJECT Website CO-PILOTS Robin van de Putte

   

• 	BRAND Nothing to Hide PROJECT Design bookcase & website CO-PILOTS Vincent van Gurp & Peter Roschar

   

• 	BRAND ZKH PROJECT Book CO-PILOTS Carlfried Verwaayen

   

• 	BRAND Helden Magazine PROJECT Design first issue CO-PILOTS Michiel van den Berg & numerous photographers

   

• 	BRAND Bijenkorf PROJECT Logos CO-PILOTS Michael Jansen & Bas Korsten

   

• 	BRAND PWC PROJECT Quarterly newspaper CO-PILOTS Mireille Capiau

   

• 	BRAND Various PROJECT Logos CO-PILOTS Me, myself & I

   

• 	BRAND YVRA, Vos op Jacht & Hotel Company PROJECT Business cards CO-PILOTS Me, myself & I

   

• 	BRAND NIina, Pak op Zak, Man & Pak PROJECT Book covers CO-PILOTS Vincent van Gurp & Oof Verschuren

   

• 	BRAND Pak op Zak PROJECT Book CO-PILOTS Oof Verschuren & Femke ten Haken

   

• 	BRAND PICNIC / Sanoma PROJECT Magazine CO-PILOTS Daniël van Maarleveld & Frank van Munster

   

• 	BRAND KNVB PROJECT WEBSITE CO-PILOTS ROBIN VAN DE PUTTE

   

• 	BRAND CROSSING / SANOMA PROJECT MAGAZINE CO-PILOTS MICHIEL VAN DEN BERG, DANIËL VAN MAARLEVELD & FRANK VAN MUNSTER

   

• 	BRAND MAISON DE BONNETERIE PROJECT MAGAZINE CO-PILOTS CARIN VERBRUGGEN & CARLFRIED VERWAAYEN

   

• 	BRAND Rijksmuseum PROJECT Magazine CO-PILOTS MICHIEL VAN DEN BERG, VINCENT VAN GURP & ERWIN OLAF

   

• 	BRAND Quotenet PROJECT Website CO-PILOTS ROBIN VAN DE PUTTE

   

• 	BRAND Quote PROJECT MAGAZINE CO-PILOTS MICHIEL VAN DEN BERG, MATTHIJS KOPPEN & FRANK VAN MUNSTER

   

• 	BRAND Quote PROJECT COVER MAGAZINE CO-PILOTS MICHIEL VAN DEN BERG, MATTHIJS KOPPEN & FRANK VAN MUNSTER

   

Durk.com is a leading Dutch based design agency providing strategy, art direction and design services to a substantial and diversified client base. The agency’s clients include corporations like Porsche and PWC. Creative director Durk Hattink founded the firm in 2006. Before starting Durk.com Durk Hattink was an award-winning art director at the upmarket business magazine Quote (the Dutch equivalent of Forbes and Fortune). Durk Hattink has regularly been voted as one of the ten best art directors in the Netherlands.
Durk.com designs. Plain and simple, as is the agency’s style. And in simplicity there is not only truth and beauty, but also the power to evoke what might have been lost in clouds of ink and abstract ideas. Through their art direction, Durk&Co. are able to express what would otherwise have taken several novels and a dozen autobiographies. We recognize that there is no identity without definition. What is, is what can be defined. That is why Durk.com has been so succesful in building brands: by defining them.
We give brands the face without which they would merely bear an unuttered name. Durk.com is, therefore, about craftsmanship. We take pride in delivering strategy, design and art direction that are simply second to none. As a high-end agency the cost of compromise is too high and too wasteful to be paid.
Durk.com has its headquarters in Amsterdam. From these buildings we silently but steadily coordinate a world-takeover. However, we are not sure if that is what the Mercur jury meant by ‘undoubtedly exportable’ when referring to Durk.com’s work - and incidentally naming Durk the best art director in the Netherlands.

STRATEGY
Durk.com holds a firm grip on things, especially on our triple A-status. This multi-vowel acronym matters to us, for it stands for analysis, assistance and attention. We want to assist our clients in the best and broadest way possible with their publications. For professional assistance, however, analysis is absolutely vital. We devote ourselves to detailed scrutiny of the clients’ wishes and publications. For our clients and for us, this serves a single purposes: to maximize the reader’s attention.
Of course, our dedication is not confined to intuition and mere talk. On the client’s demand, we present our analysis and consequent strategy in a thorough report. This report will also outline solutions for enhancing, improving or creating the message that is to be send. In short, in our art direction we translate what the client wants to say. Commonly, we tell the reader what the client wanted to share with him all along, but could not express.
To achieve this, not a single detail goes unnoticed. Whatever our client demands, whether it is a magazine, a website or packaging material. Everything, from page structure to typography and from imagery to ease of use is treated with the utmost care. The client’s message has to attract the same hawks’ eye that the reader grants his purse. And on an educational note, Durk.com is also willing and able to hold workshops. We like to help your people to increase the appeal and effectiveness of your website and magazine. We can even help them to draw better doodles than the ones they currently scribble in the lazy hours.
 

Durk.com has set itself goals that can be called immodest. We want to be the best. Key to this goal is acknowledging that perfection does not last. We are always striving to do better. That is why we are at the forefront of Dutch design. We are leading the way. Art direction, in fact, says it all.
This has attracted a rather varied following of clients that recognize our unsatiable desire to succeed. We are a high-end agency that serves high-end customers, simple as that. Does that mean you have to be arrogant, rich or otherwise extravagant to do business with us. Certainly not. We ask but the simplest: to share our passion.
In recent years, this common goal, of our clients and us, led to the most invigorating chemistry and groundbreaking designs. Our design, solutions and strategies have resulted in lasting partnerships. Our clients are returning customers, because they know that we don’t simply give them what they want. We provide them with what they need.
Our creativity has brought solutions and innovations that have become industry standards. This means we generated profit for our clients. We have been able to deliver something that others just didn’t have. And this drives us still. Creativity for us goes beyond wearing funny glasses, it is about achieving for your clients. Being creative is a way of life, not an attitude.

CLIENTS
Durk.com prides itself on creating value for all its clients over the years through creative solutions anchored by a quality journalistic approach, plus an intuitive entrepreneurial extension of design and craft credentials.
 

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  Maarten van den Biggelaar editorial consultant & founder quotemedia / bigglab / travelteq

  ´Durk.com is expensive, but incredibly good & fast.´

  
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  Michael Jansen art director

  ´Durk is without a doubt, the most stylish designer I’ve worked with.´

  
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  Jury report I Mercur Best Art Director from 2004

  ´Magazines in the Netherlands come in three different styles. There is the international style, the sober minimalist Dutch style and there is Durk Hattink’s style in Quote. This visual language which he developed himself is completely unique. He is able to transfer Quote magazine’s satirising banter into a graphic design which entirely suits the content. Hattink is uniquely able to bridge the gap between text people and image people and to translate that into form. In doing this, he does not allow himself to be led by international dogmas. Hattink consistently continues to seek his own language which suits Quote’s message and he keeps improving and innovating in the process. He is increasingly decisive for the direction Quote takes and its quality. His Dutch, ironic art direction is of a new international standard, incredibly clever, completely individual and undoubtedly exportable.´

  
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  Jury report II Mercur Best Magazine Report from 2007

  ´This list was made possible thanks to intensive research by the Rijksmuseum. Quote made this brilliant special, 250 richest people of the 17th century, which focused in on the hilarious similarities between then and now. Erwin Olaf’s beautifully photographed group portraits illustrate that point even further.´

  
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  Jort Kelder Ex-Editor-in-Chief Quote, co-author ZKH & Pak op Zak

  ´Dutch, ironic art direction of a new international standard, incredibly clever, completely individual and undoubtedly exportable.’ This kind of utterance usually make us feel a bit queasy, but yesterday at the annual Magazine Gala we were in complete agreement with the jury for once. Our Durk Hattink was voted best art director of the Netherlands. I have rarely witnessed a more well-earned prize ceremony. After all, a lot of what you see in Quote carries this rascal’s signature. Seven years ago, Hattink first set foot in the office, after some very hard work at the Rietveld Academie. Initially I mistrusted the whip thin youth, because a doctor’s son with a signet ring from Kennemerland has very little to do with Quote, let alone art. Swan Lian Kwee (the magazine’s art director at that time) also couldn’t help but frown when Hattink unflinchingly answered the question of where he saw himself in 5 years from now with: ‘I want to be in your chair, so I am going to start sawing at the legs of your chair’. In other words, a man who fits in perfectly with our editorial culture and who was able to put away his saw again quite quickly. Kwee had babies (2x) and was promoted (editor’s note: Dutch ELLE Deco) and Hattink made his extraordinary mark on the Jack Russell of the business magazines. It included some unforgettable ideas such as September 2003’s infamous double cover. Property rogue Eddy de Kroes was the first ‘business man’ to reach the cover in all his glory (we usually avoid ugly men), but did end up behind another cover with a prison door and bars. The people at Laan van Koot in Wassenaar were not amused, but Hattink did prove his brilliance. And we reached record sales. I could give hundreds of small or large examples to justify why Durk Hattink has deservedly been voted best of his profession. But this is what is most important: Hattink became a success because he is a little boy, and he always has been and always will be. Someone who doesn’t fall asleep, always inspires, doesn’t whine about working hours, special holiday days and early retirement plans. Of course, he rarely meets a deadline, was the first to drive a dent into the editorial staff’s Porsche and prefers to use women’s level of attractiveness as the most important criterion in their job applications. In addition to this he is headstrong, arrogant, and occasionally unmanageable. But goody two-shoes are no fun to make magazines with. And they most definitely won’t win any prizes in the process.´

  
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  Ulrich Lang Founder Ulrich Lang New York fragrances

  ´Yvo van Regteren Altena's business card has to be one of the coolest ones I have ever seen - it's very clever and stylish, just like the man behind it himself.´

  
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  Cécile Narinx Editor-in-Chief ELLE

  ´It’s rarely subtle, but always effective. Commission Durk and you will be surprised, stimulated, amused and moved. Never a dull moment.´

  
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  Yvo van Regteren Altena Co-Author Man & Pak / Pak Op Zak

  ´Writers can type as much as they like, but if the message’s packaging is stylistically boring, an interested reading public will of course remain elusive. It is a true privilege to be able to entrust the text you have worked so hard on, or even your fully completed books, to art director Durk Hattink. His original, stylish and recognisably glamorous style of graphic design allow this art director to produce a publication which stimulates form and style sensitive readers, month after month. It is not only his magazine format that is of an international standard, his covers also show wit and playfulness, but there is always an eye for the right proportions, the right colours and he is also a master of the crucial art of leaving things out. If only this man could design my whole life!´

  
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  José Rozenbroek editorial consultant

  ´Durk’s style? Amazing. And amazingly headstrong. Always provides an exciting, original idea for imagery as a starting point. The design is always surprising. But be careful of the tiny stamp size images he loves so much´

  
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  Eric Smit Founder FollowTheMoney.nl and author of NINA

  ´Hattink combines great creativity and wit and (usually) a good understanding of the subject he is entrusted to prettify. If you want to work with Hattink you have to be able to deal with the despotic tendencies of an aesthetic fascist.´

  
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  Sjoerd van Stokkum entrepreneur

  ´Manages to turn even a Toyota Corolla into a sexy little play thing.´

  
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  Machteld Vos Journalist

  ´Don’t judge a book by its cover. What idiot came up with that? No pretty pictures, means no readers, however brilliant the story is. Durk is incredibly pig-headed, but often with good reason. The only art director I trust blindly with my stories.´

  

Creatives create success, which is why we go to great lengths to attract, inspire and reward creativity and talent. As a global business, our co-pilots come from all over the world and represent different nationalities, educational backgrounds and life experiences. We welcome their unique perspectives, their energy and ideas and their willingness to grow. In a service business, we know that without the best people, we cannot be the best firm.

Our co-pilots are our most valuable asset. Durk.com offers freelancers the opportunity to work with some of the most interesting challenges and influential brands, while our team-driven culture leverages and rewards individual creativity. We are always interested in talented designers, photographers and illustrators.

You can send your portfolio to portfolio [at] durk .com.
 

Please contact Durk Hattink at:

Durk.com

Leidsegracht 9
1017 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands

T  +31 6 2481 9988
E  durk [at] durk .com.
S  durkdotcom

Leidsegracht 9
1017 NA Amsterdam
The Netherlands