Anna van Gerve
Oct 24, 2022
Mola Mola, a toy for Naturalis Biodiversity Center
In December 2021, a gigantic sunfish (Mola Mola) washed ashore on Ameland, a Dutch island. The unusually large specimen of 2 by 1.80...
Anna van Gerve
Mar 18, 2022
Kaplum Toys in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam
We have very exciting news! Since a few weeks we have been preparing the launch of our toys in the museum shop of the Eye Filmmuseum in...
Anna van Gerve
Nov 22, 2021
Beautiful silkscreen prints by Viola Amman
Meet our intern Viola Amman! Past few months she has been doing a wonderful job. She is born and raised in Milan, Italy. After Highschool...
Anna van Gerve
Aug 20, 2021
Children's workshop in the Church of Alkmaar (NL)
In response to the exhibition Taking a Line for a Walk by Thomas Trum at the Church of Alkmaar, we developed a children's workshop. The...
Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2021
Selected for Textile Festival Twente
A very exciting new project is coming! We are selected to be part of the Textile Festival Twente (the Netherlands). At the moment we are...
Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2021
Meet the Maker: Process
A very important and enjoyable part of our process is drawing and making models until we find the shape that we are looking for. We also...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2021
Meet the Maker: From the Archive
Our very first experience with selling our products on a market. Those days we were living in Amsterdam and the Maker Market was right...
Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2021
Meet the Maker: Focus & Priorities
Since the Covid-crisis made it extremely hard and often simply impossible to physically sell our products, we shifted our focus from...
Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2021
Meet the Maker: Portrait
This is our family: Alper (top left), Anna (bottom left), our 4 year old son (bottom right) and, since he is mesmerized by the idea that...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2021
Meet the Maker: Small detail
It’s all in the detail. We put a lot of care into the designing and making of our products, from selecting the materials we work with, to...
Anna van Gerve
Mar 16, 2021
Meet the Maker 2021: Beliefs & Values
Building a better world everyday. The Adventure of Play We believe it is tremendously important for kids to learn trough play. Play is...
Anna van Gerve
Mar 16, 2021
Meet the Maker 2021: On our desks
We have two desks: one woodwork bench in our woodwork studio in the garden and one desk with a sewing machine in our home studio in the...
Anna van Gerve
Mar 16, 2021
Meet the Maker 2021: Newest make
Stuck at home during the first lockdown, trying to make sense of it all, we started working on our new collection: Lockdown Animals. In...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Mar 3, 2021
Meet the Maker 2021 Brand Introduction & Style
Photo by Reggy van Liempd We are joining #MarchMeetTheMaker2021, meaning this month you will learn a lot about our business, who we are,...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Jan 10, 2021
Blog about Kaplum
Today Kleinbedrijfje.nl published a great blog about us by Reggy van Liempd who also made the beautiful photos of us at work in our...
Anna van Gerve
Aug 20, 2020
Lockdown Animals
To keep myself and my mind busy during the strange times of Covid-19 lockdown, I started working on a new project: Lockdown animals....
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2020
Support local businesses!
Because of the lockdown a lot of shops are closed, causing small and local makers to loose a significant part of their income. Steun de...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Apr 6, 2020
Unduetrestella Design Week Milano CANCELED
Unfortunately, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus the Unduetrestella Design Week in Milano that we were going to be part of this...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Mar 15, 2020
Our plastic free whale in Style Piccoli magazine
One of the whales from our new plastic-free collection is published in the Italian magazine Style Piccoli to represent the upcoming...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Mar 12, 2020
Unduetrestella Design Week Milano POSTPONED until June
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy the Unduetrestella Design Week during the Fuorisalone of Milano that we were going to be...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Feb 20, 2020
Unduetrestella Design Week Milano
End of April Kaplum will be part of the Unduetrestella Design Week in Milano! We are very proud to be presenting our brand new...
Anna van Gerve
Oct 11, 2019
From Technological Product to Cuddly Ball
Lately we have been working on an interesting and challenging assignment. Startup Athom asked us to make a soft toy based on their...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
Jun 7, 2019
INSPIRATION 6: Saving the World with Bobo Choses
Barcelona based brand Bobo Choses is known for colourful humorous kid’s clothing in comfortable shapes. The brand was founded in 2008 by...
Alper Demir, Anna van Gerve
May 19, 2019
INSPIRATION 5: Kristian Vedel’s Child’s Chair (1957) and Hans Brockhage’s Schaukelwagen (1950)
A while ago we visited the annual fair Design Icons in Amsterdam. In-between lots of famous designer chairs, tables and lamps we saw two...
