MAINSTUDIO

Name: MAINSTUDIO
Address: Frans de Wollantstraat 24, Amsterdam, 1018SC, NL
Telephone: 020-7855007
Price range: $$$

www.mainstudio.com
mainstudio graphic design & typography, based in amsterdam the netherlands

mainstudio is an amsterdam based graphic design studio, founded by edwin van gelder in 2005. the studio creates projects deriving from the intersection of art, architecture and fashion – including publications, digital media, and visual identities. each project is characterized by a content driven editorial approach, led by typography, creating a synthesis of form and content. the studio embeds inventive printing techniques within traditional media, and explores innovative interaction design within its digital media output. an imaginative approach to art direction forms the essential foundation of our studio. mainstudio has been honored with extensive international awards, including the 'best book design worldwide' (2013), the 'best dutch book design' (2011 and 2012), the 'best dutch annual report design' (2011) and the 'art directors club new york' (2009). van gelder regularly participates in international design juries, including the 'one show new york', the 'art director's club new york', 'tokyo graphic passport' and the 'art directors club of the netherlands'.

03/09/2026

New book Monolith 🧱

A monolith is defined as a single, large, unified structure. An apt name for the first complete monograph on the work of Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet (b. 1970). This monumental volume reveals the ongoing tension between experimentation and striking consistency in his body of work.

Artist
Publisher J*p Sam Books
Editors
Image editing
Lithography Alex Feenstra
Printing Wilco Art Books
Production Jos Morree
📸 The Book Photographer Studio

06/08/2026

Great news: Three books are nominated as a winner for the AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers prize 🏆 AIGA Design

A Shift of Identity Sarojini Lewis
Doppelgänger Esper Postma
Rain

Many thanks to the entire team below, and especially to J*p Sam Books, the publisher of all three books!

A Shift of Identity
Artist: Sarojini Lewis
Final editing: Eleonoor J*p Sam
Proofreading:
Design: mainstudio
Lithography: Alex Feenstra
Printing: ORO grafisch projectmanagement
Typeface: Lineto

Doppelgänger
Artist: Esper Postma
Texts: Philippe Oswald Jasmijn Visser
Translation: mitchcohen
Copy editing:
Design: mainstudio
Lithography: Alex Feenstra
Printing: ORO grafisch projectmanagement

Rain
Artist:
Texts: Steven Humblet Taco Hidde Bakker
Final editing: Eleonoor J*p Sam
Proofreading:
Design: mainstudio
Lithography: Alex Feenstra
Printing: Pantheon Drukkers
Binding: van Hees - Patist
Typeface: Dinamo Typefaces

📸 The Book Photographer Studio

12/06/2026

New book Dreaming of Dreams✨ Maurice Bogaert

Dreaming of Dreams brings together found footage, archival and self-produced material in a carefully staged composition where fiction, nonfiction and autofiction intertwine.

The book follows three characters and their dreams: a Jewish-German journalist who fled to New York, a stationmaster living in Syria, and a hesitant dreamer from a former mining town in Limburg.

Author Maurice Bogaert
Publisher J*p Sam Books
Lithography Alex Feenstra
Printing
Paper IGEPA Nederland B.V.
Fonts Dinamo Typefaces

13/05/2026

Rain has won a bronze cube
Published by Authors , .hidde, printed by , lithography .feenstra and binding by

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13/05/2026

Rain has won a bronze cube
Published by Authors , .hidde, printed by , lithography by .feenstra and binding by

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27/02/2026

Very happy that two books are selected for .best.dutch.book.designs 2025 ✨
Rain and A Shift of Identity .lewis

Thanks and congratulations to everyone who is involved!

Rain

Texts: .hidde
Final editing:
Publisher:
Photography:
Lithography: .feenstra
Printing:
Binding:

A Shift of Identity

Final editing: Eleonoor J*p Sam
Proofreading: Jasmine Carder
Publisher:
Image editing: .lewis,
Lithography: .feenstra
Printing & binding:

23/02/2026

New publication, Rain 🌈 published by texts .hidde and lithography .feenstra printed in extended color range by 📸

Adres

Frans De Wollantstraat 24
Amsterdam
1018SC

Telefoon

020-7855007

Website

http://www.mainstudio.com/

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