Readymag Stories: Jop van Bennekom & Gert Jonkers

Gert Jonkers was born in Otterlo, Holland

Jop van Bennekom was born in Scherpenzeel, Holland

Gert studied at the University of Amsterdam

Cover of Fantastic Man, issue 27, spring & summer 2018.

Jop studied at the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design, BA

The Gentlewoman, issue 17, spring & summer 2018. Shirin Neshat

The Gentlewoman, issue 17, spring & summer 2018. Pages 222–223.

Jop studied at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, MA

Re-Magazine, issue 10, spring & summer 2003. Ich bin tall

Re-Magazine, issue 10, spring & summer 2003. Pagespread. Image via arnoudholleman.nl.

Gert and Jop become acquainted at an interview for Blvd. magazine

Jop established and ran Re-Magazine

The duo established and ran gay magazine BUTT

Cover of Fantastic Man, issue 15, spring & summer 2012.

Gert and Jop launched Fantastic Man magazine

D&AD Award logo

Fantastic Man won the British D&AD Award for Best Magazine & Newspaper Design

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 8, autumn & winter 2013.

Gert and Jop launched The Gentlewoman magazine

Gert and Jop launched The Happy Reader, a quarterly publishing partnership with Penguin press

Cover of The Happy Reader, issue 3, summer 2015. A dazzling date with the comedian AZIZ ANSARI

design is definitely a form of editing. i always try to have a clear idea and concept and let every detail correspond to that concept; that’s why i sit on things forever. they become really good when i can control everything. —jop van bennekom

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 10, autumn & winter 2014.

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 6, autumn & winter 2012. Inez

addicted to otherness

Growing up in rural Holland, Jop Van Bennekom went to study graphic design. Magazines like The Face, i-D and NME played a defining role in his teenage quest for identity. “I was addicted to otherness,” Jop told Interview magazine. Gert Jonkers was also born in rural Holland, in the family of a preacher. He sang for a while in a country band, but was more at ease writing about music.

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 17, spring & summer 2018. Angela Lansbury

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 12, autumn & winter 2010.

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 6, autumn & winter 2012.

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 17, spring & summer 2018.

Cover of The Gentlewoman, issue 18, autumn & winter 2018.

what I found especially intriguing was that [re-magazine] was almost boring, but somehow also interesting at the same time. —olivier zahm, founder and editor of purple magazine