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Countdown to Kickstarter launch!

Countdown to Kickstarter launch!

The Enicar Book

Time for a change, time for a book on vintage Enicar The Kickstarter campaign is about to launch! To get the Enicar book produced, I’m looking for backers. Your support…

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Shooting the Enicar Sales Manager

Shooting the Enicar Sales Manager

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

The Enicar book is coming along nicely. The last couple of weeks I’ve been busy scanning over 1.500 pages of documents: catalogs, brochures, advertisements and of course a pile of…

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The Enicar book, an update

The Enicar book, an update

The Enicar Book

  Last september, I went to Biel and Lengau to do research for what my be my most ambitious project to date: the Enicar book. I’ve written several reports about…

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Biel / Lengnau report, week #3

Biel / Lengnau report, week #3

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

My final week in Biel and Lengnau brought me everything I hoped for and more. When I planned this trip roughly a year ago, I aimed for two or three…

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Biel / Lengnau report, week #2

Biel / Lengnau report, week #2

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

The first week in Switzerland I spend most of my days in Biel. In my second week, I visited Lengnau several times and I spoke again with Donato Silvestri, the…

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Biel / Lengnau report, week #1

Biel / Lengnau report, week #1

Brand stories, The Enicar Book

Time flies when you’re in Biel, Switzerland. It’s been one full week already and I must have walked over 30 kilometers. Not that Swiss public transport is not sufficient, on…

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This weblog and the Enicar book project are NOT financed by www.enicar.com, nor are they affiliated with the Hong Kong company that is currently operating as www.enicar.com. This weblog and the Enicar book are about the Enicar S.A. company, that was located in Lengnau, Switzerland, and my personal experiences as a collector and copywriter.

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About Martijn van der Ven

Born in 1975, my first watch was a Ruhla, my first audio cassette ‘The best of Elvis Presley’ and the first movie I saw in the theater ‘Terminator 2, judgement day’. I am a professional copywriter with 20 years of advertising experience, a father of two and a Motörheadbanger without hair. If you ever visit Eindhoven, drop by for a beer.

 

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