Design Meets Deep Dive:

Let’s put technology aside for a moment. Modern print communication is less about databases and more about finding the perfect match:relevance meets tactile appeal.For designers, this means moving away from simply “shifting pixels” and toward designing experiences. It’s a new kind of creativity—systemic design that works strategically and touches the heart. Because only when the senses are addressed in harmony does multisensory design unleash its full power. When the eye sees relevance and the hand feels quality, the message has not just an additive effect, but an exponential one.

Together, Meike Jürgens and Gerhard Märtterer are taking a deep dive into the “next level” of personalization. The Amsterdam-based designer and the driving force behind PPA demonstrate how to spark the target audience’s sense of play and joy of discovery—for example, through a“treasure hunt using a cell phone.”

The example of “Panoramic Programmatic Print” shows us how paper and smartphones can become an unbeatable team. This isn’t some lofty philosophy, but rather clear guidelines for the future foundation of creative work.

Join us on this journey—from tourism to e-commerce.

Managing Director It-Girls-Graphics
Guiding Principle Programmatic Print Alliance (PPA)
Gerhard Märtterer, who holds a degree in industrial engineering, founded i-clue interactive in 1997 and initially developed websites for financial service providers. In 2003, i-clue launched the first cloud-based software for personalizing digitally printed advertising materials under its own brand, AlphaPicture. The company began its international expansion in 2005. In parallel with the advancements from toner-based digital printing to high-speed inkjet, Märtterer developed concepts, software, and pilot projects that ultimately culminated in what he termed “Programmatic Print.” Märtterer proved that hyper-personalization in printing works even on an industrial scale with print runs in the millions when, from 2013 to 2018, he helped establish a high-performance, high-speed digital printing facility in northern Germany for a large printing group and utilized it to capacity with Programmatic Print orders. Märtterer shares the deep expertise he has acquired over three decades on an international level through lectures, seminars, and trade journals. In 2022, he founded the Programmatic Print Alliance (PPA) together with the FMP. Since 2025, Märtterer has been publishing the fully personalized magazine PROGRAMMATICA in collaboration with the Amsterdam-based agency it-girls-graphics.