Kossmann.dejong is an Amsterdam-based design agency that focuses on
exhibition and interior architecture. The company was founded in 1998 by
Herman Kossmann (1958) and Mark de Jong (1960). Both are architecture
graduates from the Technical University Delft. Since its inception, the
agency has grown to include over 20 employees.
A connection between content and imagination is what characterises
Kossmann.dejong’s design approach. It manages to do this while making
complex design issues accessible to a broad audience and to transform
them into intrinsic experiences. The agency combines a range of
disciplines and media that enable it to tell spatial stories. Film,
lighting and sound are indispensable media in generating experiences.
The subjects of its exhibition designs vary from architecture, to
children’s books, and from history to psychiatry, art for teenagers and
microorganisms. In 2010 Kossmann.dejong, in cooperation with Frame
Publishers, has published ‘Engaging Spaces', a valuable and timeless
sourcebook for everyone interested in the field of exhibition design.