I was off for a few days, enjoying the summer at the Dutch waterside and trying to relax after weeks of hard work. In the coming days I will post about a beautiful book I’ve received by the Dutch upcoming photographer Valentina Vos; I will post about some new e-bay finds (a vintage 60’s Tudor including) and we will launch the new Anothershop, coded by Stuart Hobday, with some very nice new stuff in there as well. Stay tuned…

Last week Stuart Hobday from Executive Edits interviewed me about Anothercompany, about branding and the way we work with clients. Thank you Stuart – it was very refreshing to answer your questions. Read the interview here >

Fresh from holiday I dived into my mailbox and found a lot beautiful stuff. Thank you all for sharing, will share it with the rest of the world in the coming days… — Joachim

While still in Morocco, still offline, still traveling around with my lovely girl and my little boy and celebrating my birthday today, I just found one tiny hotspot to do one Anothersomething post to give you a glimpse of this wonderful trip.
Traveling around between cities, mountains and deserts I found a dose of inspiration in the colors, the scents, the people and their shops and the fabrics which is really inexhaustible. The strange little boutiques with the goods piled up until the roof, packed with strange products, secret herbs, exotic animal hides and tools you never saw before… When I’m back I’ll definitely share more of this wonderful country. To be continued…

Last weeks Jonathan Looman (aka Lowman) made some more or less necessary changes to Anothersomething. One of them was to make the special features more special by changing the layout into something more magazine-like.
And since we’re so happy with that we invited some friends to start participating in Anothersomething, in the special features, to start with Hugo Verweij.

Hugo Verweij runs his own blog called Everyday Listening were he ‘collects inspiring and remarkable sound art and creative sound design projects, installations, reviews of urban soundscapes, places, contemporary or experimental, mostly electronic music.’
He inspired me for the past 20 years, showed me new music, guided me from unknown and abstract electronic artists to melancholic tunes and I’m very happy to welcome him at Anothersomething. Enjoy Another Sound!

We are very proud to announce that we, together with Tenue de Nîmes, may cary the beautiful Japanese Midori Traveler’s Notebook in our little online boutique. The Traveler’s Notebook is a hand made black leather cover with white and an extra ruled paper refil (nr 003 and nr 002) made in Japan, a zipper and card file (nr 008 and nr 007) to cary all the collected paper treasures, and comes in a fine box and extra cotton pocket to cover the notebook while on the road. (All the inserts from nr 001 till nr 010 are also available at Tenue de Nîmes)
Next month I’ll be on a trip to Morocco, to the desert, use this beauty and report on it while traveling. To be continued…

And our Journal de Nîmes Nº 4 is also available as of today!
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We are very proud to bring you the news that the first restyled issue of Blend, the Blend Paper, just hit the stores. The dutch paper focusing on fashion, music, art, culture, media and people comes six times a year, the Blend Magazine (the international english glossy) will be our next project and will be published four times a year. We started the restyle process 6 months ago and were involved in shaping the whole concept and idea behind the magazine and helped it grow into two different issues, a dutch paper and an international magazine. Enjoy a little preview after the click and get yours in the newsstands around in Holland. Read the rest of this entry »

We finally moved to our new office/studio/bureau/shop which we will call Another Workshop. In the meanwhile we’re working on the new Anothercompany website. Stay tuned, stay connected, stay curious… and keep on inspire us.

“What is thought to be the edge 
is only the beginning.”

— Unknown

I’m excited! The first post in a new decade, a clean slate, time to think about the future. At this moment Anothercompany is growing into a real studio, into our little workshop in the centre of Amsterdam. There we will continue to work on a new knitwear label, a magazine restyle, a new restaurant and shop identity, and off course the upcoming Journal de Nîmes and the continuation of our private label at Tenue de Nîmes and more, much more! We are looking forward to bring Anothersomething to the next level with some thrilling collaborations and events and Anothershop will carry more of our beloved items then ever before.
We hope you will continue to share your news, thoughts, dreams and products with Anothersomething. Let’s make it a wonderful, inspiring and tender new year!

I like to thank everybody involved in Anothersomething for this beautiful year! Nalden for the inspiration, Jonathan for the technical details, Menno & Bas for your submissions, Nik from Anthem magazine for your lovely articles, and all the people who wanted to share their news, their projects and ideas with me. It was inspiring!

At this moment it’s a little too busy, moving to our new office in Amsterdam, working for some big clients and preparing some stunning 2010 projects, but we found the time to do just a little recap of our last years favorites. Read the rest of this entry »

A distillation of the best blogs, and their best posts, all together in AnOther Reader. They’re editing the web for the most creative commentary, the most beautiful visuals, the most interesting opinions and the boldest ideas… And the good thing is, Anothersomething will be featured there as well… Thank you AnOther Magazine.

New in Anothershop: The first issue of Inventory magazine featuring Nigel Cabourn, Mister Freedom, Daiki Suzuki and Yuki Matsuda a.o. and Journal de Nîmes Nr 3, the anniversary issue.

New treasures in the new Blend nr 45 featuring Marijn Akkermans, the Gentleman’s Cap by Rapha, our favorite new danish label Libertine-Libertine and the Le Labo candle Petit Grain 21. Enjoy Blend (dutch) here > and the treasures here >

Friday october 30 Fontanel and Nieuwe Garde organizing a new issue of 60 Minute Magazine during the ‘Internationaal Beeldfestival Rotterdam‘. Participants will get 60 minutes to create a complete magazine issue – if you’re around, want to share your creativity in journalism, graphic design, photography, illustration or anything else, email them to get on the list. I’ll be there to do a short presentation on our work to inspire, and during the process to coach a bit in the art direction. Hope to see you there…

Tomorrow we’ll participate in the 5th edition of the New Talent Portfolio Night with Blend and Streetlab. If you want to show your portfolio to a league of professionals like the Parra, Marc Deurloo, Sonny Groo, Dave Roberts a.o. please send a mail to rsvp[at] blend.nl

New Talent Portfolio Night – Wednesday 14 ocober 2009, 20:00 till 23:00h, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam.

Every single moment we’re browsing the internet we find these beautiful things, heavy weight boots, a lovely pair of vintage denim, a book that caught our eyes, a typography on that particular poster, a combination of colours in a picture, name it… The past months we’ve shared it here, in Bright magazine in the form of a bag review (and the shoe review in the upcoming issue) and in Blend Magazine under the name Treasures.
Now we’re going a bit further by selecting our treasures on a daily base and try to put together a bi-weekly treasures column online. To start with No 1. A selection of beautiful finds. Enjoy after the click. Read the rest of this entry »

For Bright magazine we did a review on bags, focused on the corporate laptop carriers, but than the nice one, the one we want to be seen with… It became a very nice collection of bags, varying from the absolute classic Filson, to the contemporary Mismo bags. Get your hands on the latest issue of Bright to read the whole review. In short, here’s the list. 1. The off red Qwstion office bag. 2.The Escotype Presse(unfortunately they are not being made anymore…) 3. Our favorite shopper, laptop bag mix by Ally Capellino. 4. The very basic canvas bag by Beckel Canvas (our favorite tent manufacturer) 5. A stylish counterpart of all the vintage; the Arne briefcase by Sandqvist. 6. Off course our dutch friends can’t be missed here; the soft leather Tom Tom by Ellen Truijen. 7. The very classic bold statement by Filson. 8. Hand-made, recut vintage, and all unique Temple bags. 9. We close the feature with this fantastic doctor bag inspired masterwork by Mismo.

While working on the next issue of Journal de Nîmes (which will be the one year anniversary issue and features a great article about the Japanese fashion tribes, a map of the best places in Tokyo by Luis Mendo and JeanSnow and fantastic work by Thomas Tukker) we finally put Journal de Nîmes No. 2 for sale at Another Shop. For only €3,- shipping you’ll receive the Labour Issue, featuring the second part of A Thin Red Line by Philip Goss, a little history on the tee and lovely pictures of project ware outs by Denim Demon. Enjoy.

After a successful collaboration with Today’s Issue by Bas de Boer we are very proud to announce a collaboration with Anthem Magazine. Nik Mercer, the associate editor of Anthem Magazine, will do a bi-weekly feature called Another Anthem where in he will highlight creativity from around the world. We are looking forward to it! Stay tuned for #1.

This weekend Another Shop is represented at Inside Design by Elle. The texelse boys bags, the mysterious something’s and the thank you too card books are available at the Lloyd Hotel.