This was the best weekend ever! Spend 3 days judging the SPD awards in New York. All the good design stuff was there, and above all; the nicest people around.
Upper left, the co-chairs: Left: Jeremy Leslie, MagCulture (and thanks for stealing your pic upper right 🙂 Middle: Luke Hayman from Pentagram Design Right: Richard Turley from Bloomberg Businessweek Underneath left: design director Bob Newman from Newmanology Thanks SPD, Josh and Keisha!
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HERE THE SWEET VIDEO WITH OTHER NOMINEES 🙂
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Glam movie about winning Cover of the Year 2018 I took the glam but should be for the ten designers who created these incredible ten covers
design Ewoudt Boonstra & Anthony Burrill design Jaap Biemans lettering Anna Kiosse Een magazine, tien heel bijzondere covers design Paul Faassen design George Lois design Wim Crouwel design Rodrigo Sanchez design Richard Turley artwork Justin Metz design Erik...
winning 4 Merit Awards at SPD 52 New York - Best Design Cover - Design entire issue - Best illustrated cover - Best illustrated cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTDSIGhCvE&t=8s
just won Mercur Award for Artdirector of the Year: here me and my team: on the right ace editor-in-chief Corinne van Duin, on my right photo-editor Heike Gulker, second right designer Melissa Peen and next to me in the middle Karin van Gilst, who gave me my first...
27/9/13 interview De Morgen newspaper (Belgium)
15/08/13 My best work so far! 😀 i just became a dad of beautiful Bobbie Juul Biemans <3 Not a lot of posts this week but have some good ones saved last week, they’re coming up soon! Talk later everybody!
Yay my first appearance on The Stack; the best radio show about design. Nervous here 🙂 Listen back
22/5/13 MoMA PS1 NYC All smiles here; THE COVERJUNKIE MAGAZINE now available in the collection of bookstore MoMA PS1 museum, Brooklyn, New York MoMA | Affiliation with MoMA PS1
29/4/13 interview with ace MagCulture You ALL know the MAGCULTURE blog i think, if not…. you GOTTO check it, always the latest news about magazines, great stuff! Sweet to be featured ace MagCulture: At Work With: Jaap Biemans, CoverJunkie – magCulture
5/2/13 Q&A coverjunkie Bob Newman This was fun… read here a little interview with me together with mag guru Bob Newman
22/10/12 The Coverjunkie exhibit! Impression of the Coverjunkie exhibit at Dutch Design Week, at restaurant Radio Royaal, Eindhoven
19/10/12 The Coverjunkie exhibit Coverjunkie is gonna show up during the Dutch Design Week with some big cover designs taken out of the Coverjunkie Magazine Everybody fly over, there’s gonna be vinyl, espresso, chesterfields and covers covers covers in the most fab...
4/10/2012 meeting Noma Bar Artist Noma Bar finally having his own show in Amsterdam, special guy, one of my favorites to work with. See here his covers on Coverjunkie.com
25/7/12 silver SPD award for Coverjunkie Magazine The SPD award is THE biggest one to win if you ask me. Lots of people out of the bizz are judging and discussing each entry. THE most thrilling moment for me in 2012 was winning the silver award SMALL MAGS / SELF...
25/7/12 winner Prix de C’oeuvre I’m on holiday now so time to take a look back at the winner of this years PRIX DE C’OEUVRE and this was indeed a very humble experience for me personally. The big winner was Intermediair magazine for its entire catalog of cover designs...
1/6/12 Mister Turley & Mister Leslie & Mister Biemans Yesterday there was this big event; The National Cover Event 2012 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I enjoyed listening to a jam-packed programme and did a little talk myself. Afterwards good times with with ace...
30/5/12 interview NRC newspaper read here
14/5/12 winning SPD award Can i handle this? I just won the silver SPD (Society of Publication Designers) award in the categorie independent magazines, a humble experience. It started as a fun project and now its winning this prestigious award among other fantastic...
14/5/12 SPD awards show NYC An unforgettable magazine weekend! I attended the SPD award gala and it was so ace! Great to meet all the creative designers behind the fab mags from all around the world. Such a good vibe. This year the Gold Award winner for MAGAZINE OF...
9/5/12 3 days to go Wooha, is The Coverjunkie Magazine going to win a SPD award? It started as a fun project and now it’s nominated for the prestigious SPD AWARDS Print Medal Finalists in categorie ‘Self Published.’ (yes you heared it right!!!) Read here some reviews...
Here my interview on camera An ace magazine about independent magazines… the Facing Pages Festival: a three-day event (formerly O.K. Festival) that brings independent magazine makers and aficionados to Arnhem. The event itself takes on the form of a magazine, and...
Sweet cooperation on The Huffington Post. Cause its that time of the year! Pick the 3 most creative covers in The Best Magazine Covers Of 2011
“This issue has already been stolen from my office.” A big smile from behind my laptop when i read about the favorite magazine from Fast Company’s Design Director Florian Bachleda; he picked the Coverjunkie Magazine as his favorite on the great SPD website! Thanks...
What a giant! I just spended some time with George Lois in his stylish apartment in the Union Square neighboorhood. Im all smiles! We talked about NBA basketball, european soccer and magazine design off course. Cause he was part of the Coverjunkie Magazine i gave him...
reviews Coverjunkie magazine Designing, writing & publishing Coverjunkie Magazine
Coverjunkie Magazine – The New York Times – The 6th Floor A review on THE NEW YORK TIMES. This blog is always worthwile checking; “The 6th Floor, where staff members, editors, designers, writers, photo editors and researchers , share ideas, arguments, curiosities and...
MagCulture is one of the most ace blogs in magazine country (go check that site!), and here theyre reviewing Coverjunkie Magazine… woopi! Coverjunkie Mag is an independent mag and just realeased. A must read for all you cover lovers. 96 pages jam-packed with the best...
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A lot of people dont know Coverjunkie published its own independent magazine… it won an SPD award in the category “design independent mags” and is for sale at the MoMA PS1 museum bookstore, Brooklyn, New York (or drop me a line) For me this was the hottest thing ever,...
Hot off the press! 🙂 I just came back from the printer, see pics other post. Fab feeling to see all the white paper lined up and looking for ink. A great read for all you design lovers out there. All ready in pre order, pretty exciting 96 (!) pages jam-packed with the...
I just came back from the printers, see pics. Fab feeling seeing all those pieces of paper lined up and ready to go for some ink. A great read for all you cover lovers out there. And in pre order here, excitement! 96 (!) pages jam-packed with the best covers and...
My room is a mess, working day and night on the deadline The Coverjunkie Magazine. Sorry about not posting for a couple of days now. Deadline is right now. Tomorrow to the printer; this is gonna be good… a sweet holiday present anyone?
Wooha, a bit much to handle 🙂 Photographed as the Coverjunkie logo on new cover Villamedia: magazine for journalists and media professionals, read here the interview Photography by the brilliant Martin Dijkstra Fotografie
Yep i did it! Coverjunkie celebrates creative magazine covers ..