At our last AMIN General Meeting in Warsaw we were happy to welcome a new partner agency in Hungary. The whole process of market evaluation and assessment of hungarian agencies took place with significant support of the Austrian Trade Commission, managed by Mrs. Dr. Erika Teoman-Brenner. Therefore the first cooperation meeting between INSOMNIA-CEO Gergely Erdös and Christian Klasan took place at...read more

It was only at the last AMIN meeting at Antwerp in May when the polish agency Market Share became new member of the network. Now, half a year later they already gave a brilliant performance as organizer of the 2nd General Meeting this year. The programme was a perfect mixture of presentations of the participating agencies from all over Europe, in-dephts discussions on controversial topics and...read more

After teamdesign, Shannon Cosmetics, Lindner Seepark Hotel and Rolf Benz Fuhrmann-Showroom, opening in october at the new Stilwerk, we are glad to welcome AusschreibungsService GesmbH as our new customer. Being part of Wiener Zeitung´s organisation the company operates three wide-ranging internet platforms: The official tender base auftrag.at, lieferanzeiger.at, the online tool for notifications...read more

The spectacular design of the Seepark Hotel makes the impressive building one of the most visible signs just right on the Wörthersee´s shore. This hotel was built according to the main international standards of the hotel, congress and wellness industry and these facts have to be expressed in the external communication. “That is why we want to fall back upon many years of Klasan´s advertising...read more

Since we founded our agency twenty years ago, we made it a strict rule, not to take part in those self-congratulation competitions in our industry. "We only win if our customers are successful!", this is our credo. Wiener Bezirkzeitung and Wirtschaftsbund Wien organized an award for "The Most Child Friendly Company of Vienna". Thereby the Viennese public could nominate the candidates and a...read more

Our agency's internet business success has been inseperable from the name Marlen Postlmayer for the past five years. With enormous personal effort and engagement, and her vast knowledge in the area, she conceived and created outstanding websites, and continued to manage their content. Her last project, "bestofwien.at" will continue to define our agency's success for the years to come. But by then...read more

On June 8th, in the remarkable premises of Klasan Gallery in Vienna's 1st district, a typical New York vernissage was held. The 15 artists represented by Klasan Gallery range from Kristof Brus and Karl Moderer with extreme colour explosions over Renate Lohrmann and Eva Doraks playful accents, to Ondrej Kohout and Ruut Dantumas fanciful realism. read more

teamdesign's great advantage is the personalised service by its two CEOs Christine Pötzlberger and Dietmar Grießer. We aim to communicate this through the design of a new website, combined with a range of sales-boosting strategies. Our comprehensive photo shoot captured both the company's personality, as well as the special atmosphere of its regular cooking school.read more

AMIN Europe's general assembly took place this time in the very summery (!) city of Antwerp. The city on the Scheldt and the Belgian coast showed of its mixture of well-preserved tradition and cool city vibe. No signs of stress, it emanates relaxed modernity, which is clearly not challenged by the mild temperatures just short of 30 degrees. The AMIN get-together was marked by the entry of...read more

Austrian International Consultants is an extremely active platform of advisors, consultants, economic trustees and lawyers, who partake in international competitions together. They receive extensive support from the AIC office to prove themselves against global competitors. A large part of job bids are acquired through international databases, to which Austrian International Consultants has...

For the many years since designing and setting it up, we have maintained the website of the exclusive interior store Wohncreation Furhmann. Now, its owner Ms Krebs-Fuhrmann has commissioned us to create an image pamphlet based on our website design. Our main focus was to meld the quality of the available interior design lines with the consultation service's competence. Simultaneously, we designed...

The graphic designer, who had been working at campagnerotterdam for eight years now, spent a week visiting our agency, and was fully integrated into our daily business under the guidance of our Art Director Andrea Kompauer. Due to his excellent German, he was able to make valuable contributions to continuous tasks, as well as to the development of a new identity concept. But as brilliant as the...read more

The biggest surprise awaiting Eric Kantner, who has been a graphic designer at our agency for four years now (pictured with ALL IN-Agency's CEO Petr Kubka), was that not a single person at the agency in Prague spoke German. So he was left with no choice but to revive his rusty English, and in a week's time he was communicating brilliantly, integrated into the daily work at the agency, and even...read more

For the tenth year running, we designed the key information package for Austria's export enterprises on behalf of the Austrian Trade Organisation, consisting of the AWO Programme, the AWO Guide, and the pocket-sized AWO Compact. The AWO Programme presents detailed information on the Austrian Trade service range, with which it supports local export enterprises both in Austria and on foreign...

All over the world, travellers inform themselves about their destinations using Lonely Planet's City Guides. So the one-page editorial report on Wien-Margareten, based around the crime novel "Schön Tot" which was published last year, will certainly draw a lot of attention to this up-and-coming neighbourhood in Vienna. The novel was written by one of Austria's most famous crime authors, Edith...read more

After last year's successful launch of the new website and online-shop, the brand new image concept for Shannon Cosmetics has now been implemented. The owner, Kerry Shannon, was particularly pleased to be presented with the first copy of the new comprehensive image brochure. Posters, price lists, vouchers and flyers have also been designed and produced. The upcoming emphases lie on the design of...

The new year began with two particularly pleasant interns working at our agency for several weeks - Daniela Almberger and Verena Reiter. For more than ten years, we have regularly been offering internships to (young) people. While our interns are fully integrated into our daily business, they are left with enough time to inform themselves about how our agency is run, and to get to know the daily...read more

Many issues of the magazine “Der Helfer” (the helper) have already been published with a layout created by our agency and the new website enjoys great popularity just as well. However, more importantly for Hannes Urban, initiator of “Helfen Wir”, is the extremely high willingness to donate money which enables him to continue with his projects. “Heute” reported in full about this and therefore...read more

Since the start of this year, we have created and published the magazine "waehringer.info" for the three active shopping street associations Währinger Straße, Kreuzgasse and Weinhaus. The 20-page magazine contains current information about the three shopping areas in the 18th district of Vienna, dates of cultural and art events, current promotions of various businesses in the area, and much...read more

The 1st of December: snow as far as the eye can see! It was a true challenge to build up our flags at distribution spots in 50 Wiener Einkaufsstraßen, to present passers-by with Lindt chocolate Father Christmases. But it was worth it, as the delighted reactions of shoppers battling their way through the thick snowflakes confirmed. What better way to spread the Christmas cheer than with a little...

On the 5th annual occasion this year, our clients were presented with a little something a few days before the first Sunday of Advent. This time we created "culinary Advent platters", filled with everything we enjoy during Advent. Our offices were transformed into Santa's workshop for a few days, and we busied ourselves with designing, filling and decorating 50 Advent platters before wrapping...read more

Many years ago, we "invented" the international symposium for the Viennese organization of hospitals. This year, it found its 9th annual occurrence. For the rather dry topic of "numbers and statistical data" we developed the more intriguing conference title "Between Numbers," which inspired many of the top-class speakers to take a stand in their discourses. After the opening speech by city...

"Klasan's logo design helped us from the very beginning to build fruitful liaisons with the official Chinese posts," was the tenor of government superintendent Dr Hannes Androsch and EXPO-head Mag. Birgit Murr, at the celebratory end of the world exhibition. The Austria pavilion's corporate design adorned numerous giveaways, which were hugely popular with the visitors, and have since become...

Never has a distict been presented so comprehensively! On 22 pages, the 600,000 readers of FREIZEIT discovered the booming quarter of Margareten. A total of 27 small as well as larger enterprises presented their offers – a stellar example of professional city marketing, beneath the motto of "achieving more, together," which was powered by the economic chamber of Vienna and the Viennese economic...

The president of the economic chamber, Brigitte Jank, and deputy burgomaster, Renate Brauner, presented the Shopping Street Awards to the best works across five categories, selected by a jury of experts. The "Brigitte-Jank-Prize" went to the 5erCity around Margaretenplatz. The chairpeople of the Vienna shopping streets were given an autumn treat by the Viennese markets as a farewell surprise: a...

At the four-day AMIN Europe meeting, talk about expanding our network around Europe, as well as across other continents prevailed. In collaboration with the president of AMIN USA, Bill Coontz, a long-term plan to achieve these ambitious goals was carefully developed. But the intense strategy discussions did not take their toll on the fun. On Friday, the 20-strong AMIN group visited an Italian...

The design and publication of books has been most traditional to our agency from the very beginning. This time, our graphic designers faced a particularly unique challenge. After years of preparation, Prim. Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Hermann published an encompassing work on the history of thyroid gland surgery at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth Hospital, with the Springer Verlag. On more than 250 pages, the...

We have developed a website for the four Hilton hotels in Austria which – similarly to an online shop – invites Hilton regulars to take advantage of bonuses based on their Hilton bookings. The offers range from simple Hilton-branded everyday items to vouchers for dining in one of the Hilton restaurants, through to stays at international Hilton hotels, each available for a number of "bonus points"...read more

After last year's sensational success of the Margareten crime novel "Schön Tot" ("Beautifully dead"), this year's novel project dedicated itself to an interesting new audience: children, who are led to discover the quarter around Margaretenplatz from a new angle through László Varvasovszky's tale. The successful author and illustrator of children's books created a work which is set in real...read more

Pleasant little events which appeal to the local audience and enrapture it for a few hours – such is the goal of the promotions in the Wiener Einkaufsstraßen. This also held on this year's September 11th, where Margaretenplatz hosted the 12th annual mongrel contest. Many four-legged darlings were presented to the jury by their owners, and at the end almost every participant took home a trophy or...

This sampling event as part of the Wiener Einkaufsstraßen promotion is probably even difficult to match around Europe. Within a few days, beginning on the 8th of September, small gifts are being distributed to clients and passers-by in over 1,500 shops, 50 Viennese shopping streets, as well as at 40 distribution locations. This time the samples are Bahlsen's Crispetti – delicious crispy...read more

The exclusive beauty hotspot on Krugerstraße in the 1st Viennese district, "Shannon Cosmetics," has selected to commission our agency with the design, creation and programming of its new comprehensive website and online shop. In close collaboration with the owner, Kerry Shannon, the past months have seen the process of a model project, demonstrating how a small, beautiful shop can be promoted...read more

For many years now, we have been developing websites using the performance-excelling content management system TYPO3 for our clients: well-designed, with uncomplicated update features. For the nationally sworn-in and juridically certified English-language interpreter Marlies Mejstrik, we have recently developed a modern internet appearance like this, clearly portraying her range of services.read more

Since the beginning of this year, we have been responsible for the public communications of the Viennese plumbers (Wiener Installateure). The campaign's highlight took place at the beginning of the summer: with the support of the Austrian traditional mineral water brand JUVINA, more than 200 participating Viennese plumber clients received a large delivery of bottles of mineral water which they...

The second European-hosted AMIN-Worldwide meeting to which our agency was invited, since our entry last year, focussed on social networks. The diverse contributions from individual member countries illustrated the impressive power of this up-and-coming marketing tool. For instance, our Swiss partner agency told of its success in using Facebook to gather more than 80,000 online-fans for one of its...read more

The Romanian-Austrian financial service provider Imperial Capital Ventures launched a widespread advertising campaign throughout all major Romanian print media in April, to introduce financial funding options. Its success was sensational! Thousands of requests, which are now being examined and responded to one by one, arrived within the following few days.

In November 2009, the pan-European celebrated author Edith Kneifl published a literary thriller in which all locations and supporting characters are real: based on and around shops, restaurants, and pubs in Margareten, the fifth of Vienna's 23 districts, and their owners. read more

Journalists from all over the world over and over report about especially tragic and moving events worldwide within various media. Immediately after publication the public interest on these destinies is huge but the more time passes they tend to fade into the background in the respective media. Since the beginning of May these moving stories are presented on the internet platform...read more

From the 22nd to the 26th of March, our Russian partner agency Fresh Mind's Creative Director Alexey Shaklunov visited us in Vienna to share his experience and know-how. He enthusiastically embarked on his first project: conceptualising a poster advertisement. Lead by Romana Eigl and Andrea Kompauer, the week continued to take him through a range of exciting jobs across all areas of our...read more

For almost 10 years, we have been taking care of the Viennese Hospitals Association's (Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund) public communications. Our repertoire included quality management, revitalising care, and the care home Klosterneuburg, to name a few.read more

We developed an extraordinary logo for the Austrian pavilion at the 2010 world exhibition in Shanghai. It associates the Mandarin character "rén", which means "person" and looks similar to a capital A, with the A for Austria. At the same time, the character resembles an archway, through which visitors will enter A – Austria –, finding themselves in the Austrian pavilion at the EXPO 2010. Based...read more

For many years now, the community promotions of the Wiener Einkaufsstraßen shopping areas have been Vienna's largest promotion events. This year, spring hits the town in a very unusual way in around 2,000 shops across 40 shopping areas. With a delicious vitamin-kick refreshment, the new Schartner Bombe Vitamin A+C+E, by the Upper-Austria-based business Frankenmarkter. Customers and pedestrians...read more

Campagnerotterdam, our Dutch partner agency in the worldwide AMIN network, became Andrea Kompauer's temporary workplace from the 8th until the 12th of March. With more than 40 employees, Campagnerotterdam is a much larger agency than ours, and services numerous large brands.read more

Lukas Preisinger was on his way to meet a client on Reinprechtsdorfer Straße when suddenly he is enveloped by smoke and sirens. He witnesses a raging fire in an apartment building, and the firemen's efforts to control it. Our graphic designer, project manager and photographer whips out his camera, and the following morning the public can admire his extraordinary photography published in the...read more

(Moving) images are worth more than a thousand words... In this spirit, a screen in the shop window of the imperial confectioner Gerstner is now displaying a multimedia portrayal of the business. Many passers-by take a break to delve briefly into the rich history – all the way to the current portfolio – of this traditional confectioner.

For many years now, educating apprentices has become an intrinsic part of our agency's identity. Many young people have since taken the opportunity to complete an apprenticeship at Klasan Werbeagentur. read more

Since the beginning of 2010 we have been taking care of the plomber´s guild of Vienna´s Chamber of Trade with a broad long term communication concept. With  this concept Vienna´s plombers position themselves as your experts for well-being. The guild´s chairman Michael Mattes is excited about the campaign´s successful start since it was highly praised when being presented to professional...read more

For nine years now, we have been designing and producing the most important information guide for Austria's export enterprises on behalf of AUSSENWIRTSCHAFT ÖSTERREICH (foreign trade Austria). The AWO guide lists all national and international contacts, including particular specifications as well as a picture. With over 700 staff members and more than 100 offices worldwide, the compilation of all...

During Advent 2009 one could vote for the most beautiful and most popular christmas lighting at the website of Vienna´s shopping streets, using a voting-tool which was especially created for casting your vote. By using this method of communication the enormous variety of the new and creative decoration was presented to public. Favorites during the first round of voting definitely were the...read more

For our advertising agency it is always a big challenge to create and implement new advertisment ideas that have never been done before for the Viennese shopping streets we are in charge of. After already 18 years that can be pretty difficult! By creating the first Währinger Wedding Guide we again succeeded in developing a new and especially innovative product. For the first time ever three...read more

As the first agency within the international AMIN network our CEO Christian Klasan visited the Swiss agency B+G in Montreux at the end of November. His aim was to analyse future projects which could be handled together. Fortunately we noticed a great similarity between our agencies in terms of size and the structure of customers. The fact that Christian Klasan cooked lots of “Wiener...read more

Every year towards the end of November our agency turns into an advent-wreath-workshop. Our trainees created and decorated more than two dozen wreaths. This year these are very traditional with  little angels, orange slices and pine cones. Our customers were delighted by our trainees´ visit who brought them nice-smelling pre-Christmas greetings from our office at Zirkusgasse. The Klasan...read more

The selection and accredidation process for a new partner agency in Austria took months whereby the emphasis lay on following aspects: creativity, full service and internationality. At a plenary meeting in Granada (Spain), Christian Klasan had to meet the challenge to be confronted with an extensive hearing which started with a multi-media presentation about our agency and ended with the...read more

For the new brochure "Konfekt&Trüffel" (confection&truffel), our two photographers Andrea Krahofer and Eric Kantner shooted the sweet masterpieces from the imperial-royal confectioner Gerstner. Our photographic studio, which we also use for portrait photography every now and then, was used as a still-life-studio for days. The specific challenge was the accurate food-styling...read more

Social marketing has always been one of the main products in our agency´s portfolio. After a long inspection of all potential advertising agencies, the charity organisation "Helfen Wir!" decided that we are the perfect partner for their interests and charged us with the composition of their quarterly magazine "Der Helfer" as well as the complete relaunch of their website with...read more

One of the most sympathic events, which we are making for a Viennese shopping street, is celebrating its 10th anniversairy this year. Just like every year at the beginning of Advent many local entrepreneurs were coming together to sing well-known, traditional Christmas carols, supported by some opera stars. read more

Simmering´s wall calender with historical pictures of Simmering, which is published by Simmering´s shopping streets, is already like a pleasant tradition. In cooperation with Simmering´s Bezirksmuseum we have been creating and producing this calender for the third time this year. On November 21st, the presentation took place at the tradition-rich restaurant owned by Thekla Hochmayer, chairwoman...read more

After last year´s huge success with the first cultural initiative of Vienna´s shopping streets together with the Liechtenstein Museum we were now able to form another sensational cooperation between two important Viennese institutions: the Kunsthistorisches Museum and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber invite you to visit the Neue Burg or Wagenburg with one of the 120,000 free tickets that are...read more

The very popular wurst stand at the Albertinaplatz right behind the Staatsoper is well known all over Vienna. At the beginning of September a second one, also designed by the team of architects Schuberth&Schuberth, opened in front of the Riesenrad, on the way to the new Prater forecourt. This location is excellent and in the first days after its opening, it already drew large crowds. On the...read more

For 17 years our agency has been in charge of the project "Die Wiener Einkaufsstraßen" (Vienna´s shopping streets) for the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. Besides a large-scale image campaign this initiative is definitely also based on the many small and charming activities which show to local residents how livable and amiable their neighborhood is. The mongrel contest celebrated its 10th...read more

Management consultants Susanne Schweitzer and Thomas Breitner from Vienna´s "Akademie für Organisationsentwicklung" (academy for organisational development) thought of our agency to be particularly suitable for the conduction of a seminar about systematic organisation constellation. Almost twenty participants signed in and on September 2nd this exciting and revealing group meeting took place. read more

For Austria´s pavilion at next year´s world exposition in Shanghai we created an especially extraordinary logo. The logo connects the Chinese symbol for "human being", which resembles an A, with the A for Austria. Simultaneously the Chinese symbol is also a gateway through which the visitor gets to A, that is Austria - directly in the Austrian pavilion at the EXPO 2010. Above of the logo, the...read more

In order to get our customers in the mood for Christmas season our trainees created a special advent wreath again this year.

For already seven years we have been in charge of the constant work with Austrian´s foreign trade and therefore an intense collaboration with many of the more than 100 foreign trade departments on all continents has developed. This does not only include an orientation to each different time zone but also the use of a great variety of languages, from Finnish, Norwegian, Arabic and Hebrew up to...

Italian summer hits, the city´s best ice cream and more that 30 degrees - a wonderful atmosphere and many nice guests in our "agency ice cream parlor". read more

Let´s say "Goodbye" together to this year´s summer. It´s autumn in three weeks and on the next three Fridays we want to enjoy ice cream together with you to the top of our bent.