We produced two photographic campaign images, making a distinction between the two main lines of the festival: the general programme (mainly targeted to adult audiences) on one hand, and NTF Jong (the programme specifically targeted to children/youth audiences) on the other. Use of color was key to clearly distinguish the different lines of the program. The campaign was widely spread across the city of Amsterdam, with posters printed in various formats.

In 2019, Nederlands Theater Festival introduced a new section to its programme, specially dedicated to professionals working on the theater industry. We created the sub-brand 'NTF PRO', and gave it a specific color and typographic treatment, which was later applied to different print and digital media.

We also printed a good amount of colorful flags -according to the new color-coded way to communicate the program-, which were placed around Amsterdam's city centre, festively announcing the start and eleven-day presence of the festival in town.

It was time for NTF to have a fresh new website, which we redesigned turning it from a mainly informational site into a 'sales first' one, through a very visual and accessible way of browsing the programme and buying tickets, and improving the mobile version. We gave performance and long-read pages a more editorial treatment, presenting content with the relevance it deserves, enhancing the beautiful theater imagery, and easing the readers' experience in the more in-depth pages.

NTF has a wide program that needs to be communicated across diverse channels. We produced a printed program brochure with a newspaper press, and spiced up its informational function by creating some humorous descriptions of the different parts of the program, such as 'The best theater according to your neighbour'.

Other printed items, such as beermats and entrance tickets to the performances, were produced not just for promotional purposes but also as part of the venue dressing during the festival.

NTF's programme revolves around the Official Jury Selection. This selection gathers the best theater performances of the year, which can be seen -often for the last time- during the festival. Every year, we create a video to announce the chosen performances, being its release an exciting and festive moment for the Dutch theater industry. This years' animation is one of the few communication items in which the color palette of NTF is fully displayed.

Creative direction and design: What The Studio
Campaign photography: Benning & Gladkova
Web development: Floris Douma
Officiële Juryselectie animation: Simon François