Jan van der Lande in the land of small design.
I was often asked by ICFF attendees what it was we did to be a part of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Consider this. If you were to go home, sit on your favorite chair, and look around the room, what would you notice? All the […]
Category Archives: stories
King of Little Things
May 21, 2009 – 11:28 am
“Gastralgia”
March 17, 2009 – 8:05 am
Congratulations to Anja Swoape, 12, who won the seven-county metro area regional Minnesota Scripps Spelling Bee on Saturday, March 14th by correctly spelling “gastralgia.”
The sixth-grader from Valley View Middle School in Edina was born in Germany and is fluent in French as a result of her education at Normandale French Immersion School. Kikkerland Design sent […]
Kikkerland: Home of the Unexpected
November 3, 2008 – 3:39 pm
Written by Jeroen Kuiper when we were coming up with ways to describe Kikkerland Design for the website. We didn’t end up using it, but it’s a sweet story and a great reminder why we do this thing we do called Kikkerland Design.
Kikkerland, which translates as “land of frogs” is a term of endearment for the […]
Cover Story
October 15, 2008 – 1:52 pm
Early Kikkerland Design Trade Catalogs designed by Pieter Woudt. Pieter is Kikkerland’s first and foremost designer. He created the Kikkerland logo, designed all of the Kikkerland catalogs and has lent his graphic style to most of Kikkerland’s package designs.
Top right yellow cover is from 1996 to the current bottom left kraft cover. Prior to […]
Welcome to the Land of Frogs
October 14, 2008 – 2:37 pm
New York City, 1992. Jan van der Lande, originally from Holland, was working as a NYC bike messenger. Some artist friends from Amsterdam asked if he would take their wares to shops he knew in the city. This proved successful and the idea to start a design collective was born. Named after a term of endearment for the […]