Promea Industrial Design is an all-round design agency which develops products commissioned by its clients. We design innovative products on a full service basis, from idea generation up until technical drawings and the start-up of production. Promea has had more than 25 years of experience in product design. If you are interested in our help concerning your product portfolio, please get in contact with us.
Designer & founder Albert-Jan van Dijk
Promea was founded in 1991 by Albert-Jan van Dijk. In his hometown, Leiden, van Dijk laid the foundation for his knowledge and skills on precision engineering at the Leidse instrumentmakers School (LiS). The LiS is a unique institution established as part of the famous ‘Laboratories of Physics’, set up by Nobel Prize winner for Natural Sciences, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. In that period, van Dijk also developed a strong fascination for industrial design. Especially the works of technically trained industrial designers like Frans de la Haye, Bruno Ninaber van Eyben, and, outside the Netherlands, Giorgetto Guigiaro and Dieter Rams, caught his attention. And so, van Dijk continued his training at the Academy of Industrial Design (now Design Academy) in Eindhoven. After an exchange programme with the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, as well as an internship at Pentagram Design in London, van Dijk graduated with honours in 1991 under Werner Schulze Bahr. The Design Academy was Europe’s first full-time academy for Industrial Design and is still renowned worldwide.
Paul Ehrenfest, Hendrik Lorentz, Niels Bohr, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in the Cryogenics Laboratory in Leiden in 1919 The Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratories are the home of the Leiden School for Precision Engineering L.I.S. ever since.
After a short period at ‘van Nieuwenborg Industrial Design’ van Dijk started collaborating with several manufacturers in the field of personal safety, rehabilitation and care. Some of these projects proved to be very sustainable and successful, like the one made in collaboration with Karel van de Grinten and Peter Kuipers. Today, Promea has been working for a large variety of industries for over 25 years. We are located in the beautiful city of Breda, in between Rotterdam and Eindhoven, on a site formerly owned by Philips. In other words, it is situated in the centre of the Dutch knowledge and manufacturing industry.
Founded in 1953 The Akademie voor Industriele Vormgeving Eindhoven was the first full time bachelor’s course for industrial design in Europe. Today under the name of Design Academy Eindhoven it’s the world’s most renouned intitution for conceptual innovation and design.
Our mission is to launch valuable, desirable and successful products. We provide design solutions with high-grade technical innovations, strong unmistakable character, contemporary or timeless style and the perfect ability to reflect the identity of your company. The added value of our applied integrated design strategy is hidden in a truly multi-disciplinary approach of every design-challenge throughout the entire development process. From technology to aesthetics, from price setting to environment and from functionality to emotion. In this fashion, we always focus on the main objective. In order to achieve this goal, we work with a small, devoted team of professionals and a fine network of specialists. In all stages we listen patiently; effective communication and careful planning are both crucial. We want to make sure our projects feel like collaborations with our client; we both prepared the launch, together we monitored and altered the flight and at the end we both hit the same target.
Since the early nineties Promea has built long lasting relationships with clients in a variety of industries. Some of our designs have been presented with national or international design awards and some of our inventions are patented. Moreover, our company has been praised for our collaboration with educational institutions:
4 Awards – Good Industrial Design
Best novelty – Jaarbeurs Utrecht for Stylotto
Brabantse Innovatieprijs
Selected entry Designboom/Fiat Design contest
Winner IBDC – International Bicycle Design Competition Taiwan 2007
Recognized learning company since 2010
Innovation Award Zorg en ICT 2014 received for the Amis Medication Cart
Overall Winner Best Alarm & Detection Product 2007 received for the Bosch the Hemi-directional Loudspeaker
Stan van de Kleij – Winner of CAD2M National Challenge speed engineering in Solidworks 2016
Publication of interior design in Eigen Huis & Interieur November 2017.
National Winner Best Practice trainer 2017 sector ICT & Creative Industry by the Ministry of OC&W