Reload Magazine

Since 1999 many spreads have appeared in the printed Dutch magazine Reload with my name on them. As is evident by the style, it targets skaters, snowboarders and surfers and is always on the edge of new trends, picking up international movements and introducing them in Holland. My goals is always to find a fresh, slightly left-of-center twist combined with a visual hierarchy that glues the reader to the page.
[Spread size 46 x 28cm unless noted otherwise]

 Typographic spread

Typographic spread — Nico Dijkshoorn seeks out sensitive subjects and provides a refreshingly provocative point of view. This month: porn parties are dead, where’s my weathered whore? Shapes like pillows, words like razors. [1 spread | 2007]

 Arctic Challenge cover

Arctic Challenge — Climbing to challenge gravity. [3 spreads | 2007]

 Arctic Challenge spread 2

World Record — The snowboarding competition came back to life; last year one of the contestants almost died, this year a new world record was set for highest air. [3 spreads | 2007]

 Music pages spread

Music pages — Featuring dangermen video frames; the geetahr as foundation for all tunes, while we catch whisps of new ones. [1 spread | 2007]

 Bikecar opening spread

Bike Car? — Believe it or not: a couple of Americans built it and trekked across several mountain passes, just to catch some pow. [2 spreads | 2006]

 Bikecar second spread

Ride! — At the height of the trip, the height of the ride. The story as a sidebar to the flight. Go guys! [2 spreads | 2006]

 Sneakers

Selling out — Selling shoes like Al Bundy, but the way I make it look, you’d never know! [1 spread | 2006]

 Punks not spread

Punks not spread — Although the gay punk on the left will be spread all over the reload (they made a pin-up calender), the guys on the right are straight 18 year olds with their second CD out. Each their choice, I say. [1 spread | 2006]

 Opening spread

Flowriding — The first revolution in boarding since the invention of the snowboard, Tom Lochtefeld's permanent wave is quite the talk of the town. [1/3 spreads | 2005 | 33 x 21cm]

 Flowriding detail of pattern

Endlessly repeating wave — positive and negative waves interlocking in this pattern paradise. [2/3 spreads | 2005 | 33 x 21cm]

 Flowriding closing spread

Night and day — The time is always right once you master the trade. The feel is supposed to be somewhere between surfing and boarding. Can’t wait ’til they get the thing built! [3/3 spreads | 2005 | 33 x 21cm]

Rockstar — Wild man in the snow, Romain is seen as something of a rockstar. So I put him in front of the mirror with the text right-reading on the facing page. [1/2 spreads | 2004 | 33 x 21cm]

Art Pepper — Virtuos West Coast jazz saxophonist leading a rough and violent lifestyle. A black eye right in your face — there’s no escaping the truth. [1/1 | 2002]

Do mormons wear black? — Who cares, not if they’re moving this fast! Nice abstract b&w photography lends itself well to graphic treatment. A rush to design. [1/3 | 2000]

To Rip or Not to Rip — Spread about the rise of mp3 distribution on the Internet. Magnified digital waveforms give a well-needed roughness. [1/2 | 2000]

Rippin’ — Mix great photography with the wind in your fingertips and the result is a graphic roughness that brings out the adrenaline in unsuspecting victims. Fatal when addicted. [1/4 | 2000]

Carvin’ — Even the pros have to bandage their ribs after big spills. It just doesn’t take them as long before they’re flying off the mountain again... [4/4 | 2000]

Cilvaringz — Rapper from the south of Holland who made it big and recorded with RZA from the Killer Bees. Hand gestures are amplified by the contrast. [1/1 | 2000]