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Camiel Fortgens, label design
Bodily, drawing on paper, 2022
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
PORTAL zine 001 & 002, project by Elisa van Joolen
Mutter Pouch Residue, print on paper, 2022
Camiel Fortgens, lookbook design
Camiel Fortgens, lookbook design
Dissolving the Ego of Fashion, published by ArtEZ Press
De vijf pijlers van design, published by Artez Press
De vijf pijlers van design, published by Artez Press
De vijf pijlers van design, published by Artez Press
De vijf pijlers van design, published by Artez Press
JOIN Collective Clothes, Manual Design, published by Warehouse
Press & Fold — Pillow Talk
Uncover Archive, Research and Design
Uncover Archive, Research and Design
















JOIN Collective Clothes, Manual Design, published by Warehouse
Rafaël Rozendaal, Everything, Always, Everywhere, published by Valiz
Rafaël Rozendaal, Everything, Always, Everywhere, published by Valiz
Rafaël Rozendaal, Everything, Always, Everywhere, published by Valiz
Rafaël Rozendaal, Everything, Always, Everywhere, published by Valiz
Photography JOIN Collective Clothes
Metropolis M Magazine, Editorial Design & Identity
Metropolis M Magazine, Editorial Design & Identity
Mutter Pouch
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Hearings: A Reader, published by SternbergPress
Contour Biennale 8, Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium
Contour Biennale 8, Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium
JOIN Collective Clothes, Manual Design, published by Warehouse
DE VIJF PIJLERS VAN DESIGN, published by Artez Press
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Selected Projects

ALL WORK IS WOMEN’S WORK
Art Direction & Photography
Garments Xeroxed (Alia Mascia)
Part of this publishing project a series of garments where produced in collaboration with Alia Mascia’s XEROXED. The XEROXED garments, as wearable publications, function as moving memorial plaques in public space, honouring the often invisibilised histories of working-class women.

ALL WORK IS WOMEN’S WORK
Publication Design
Publisher Clothes Line Press
The publication uncovers the forgotten story of The Seamstresses’ Union, one of the first all-female labour unions in the Netherlands, and their radical use of print media to challenge patriarchal and capitalist systems in the early 20th century.

UNCOVER ARCHIVE
Research & Design
The website presents a curated archive of fashion publication artefacts spanning 1970–2000, with the aim of creating a decentralised network of resources. The platform is further enriched by reflections in the form of writings by Emma Singleton, Laura Gardner, Femke de Vries, Colby Vexler, and Justin Clemens. Supported by Stimulerings Fonds.

PRESS & FOLD
PILLOW TALK
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold’s first merch drop. Pillow Talk is a series of cotton pillow cases created with deadstock material from Camiel Fortgens. They come with a hand-embroidered ampersand by Press & Fold art director Beau Bertens. Photography by Loes de Boer.

PRACTISING SOLIDARITY
Book Design
Publisher ArtEZ Press
Practising Solidarity, the follow-up to ‘Dissolving the Ego of Fashion’ by Daniëlle Bruggeman — brings together inspiring collaborations reflecting on how fashion can foster solidarity with all living beings through critical, affirmative, and embodied practices. Cover & type design with Manon Fraser. Image by Zindzi Zwietering.

ANNE NOOR
Custom Typeface
Custom type design created for the publication Practising Solidarity. Anne Noor is a script-based typeface designed together with Manon Fraser. Inspired by the textures of needlework, this typeface became a personification of womanhood and handcraft, incarnated in a fictional persona Anna Noor.

HET ALTIJD (2016—2024)
Book Design
Publisher De School
A 160-page visual journey to and through De School Amsterdam. A sensory, rearrangeable and time-transcending capsule of individual and communal experiences. Back to what once was and now is - voor altijd.
Awarded for Best Dutch Book Design 2025

PRESS & FOLD
PILLOW TALK
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold’s first merch drop. Pillow Talk is a series of cotton pillow cases created with deadstock material from Camiel Fortgens. They come with a hand-embroidered ampersand by Press & Fold art director Beau Bertens. Photography by Loes de Boer.

MUTTER Pouch
Product Development & Design
Product development and design of merch for Amsterdam based art space MUTTER. The MUTTER Pouch is developed in collaboration with atelier Toër initiated by Tomas Ermin.

MUTTER Pouch Residue
Print
Product development and design of merch for Amsterdam based art space MUTTER. The MUTTER Pouch is developed in collaboration with atelier Toër initiated by Tomas Ermin.

PRESS & FOLD MAGAZINE
Issue 02 — Resistance
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold is an independent fashion magazine that aims to explore alternative fashion forms and narratives. The bi-annual magazine provides a platform for critical fashion practitioners who do not obey the rules the fashion system is currently dictating. Press & Fold focuses on a fashion reality that isn’t based solely on consuming the latest fashions but on our experiences through fashion, seeking an alternative fashion discourse that goes beyond treating fashion as a commodity. Initiated by Hanka van der Voet.

JOIN COLLECTIVE CLOTHES
Brand Identity & Manual Design
JOIN Collective Clothes is a design and research project which explores fashion as a collective practice, focusing on making and wearing clothes together. Every shape is an addition to a growing collection of clothing-pieces that can be assembled into a variety of garments. A manual guides the maker through the process of making one of the four different shapes.

DE VIJF PIJLERS VAN DESIGN
Book Design
Design for De vijf pijlers van design, handbook on designing utensils. By Hans Ansems & Jeroen van den Eijnde. Published by Artez Press

PRESS & FOLD MAGAZINE
Issue 01 — Luxury
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold is an independent fashion magazine that aims to explore alternative fashion forms and narratives. The bi-annual magazine provides a platform for critical fashion practitioners who do not obey the rules the fashion system is currently dictating. Press & Fold focuses on a fashion reality that isn’t based solely on consuming the latest fashions but on our experiences through fashion, seeking an alternative fashion discourse that goes beyond treating fashion as a commodity. Initiated by Hanka van der Voet.

RAFAEL ROZENDAAL.
EVERYTHING, ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE
Book Design
Everything, Always, Everywhere, reflects on the change that Rozendaal's work has undergone in recent years; looking at both his own evolution as an artist, and the technological progress that has influenced digital art in general. Design in collaboration with Studio Remco van Bladel. Published by Valiz. Texts by Margriet Schavemaker, Kodama Kanazawa, Christiane Paul & Marvin Jordan. Awarded for Best Dutch Book Design 2019

CAMIEL FORTGENS
Label Design
Original label design for Camiel Fortgens, used as of today founded in 2014.

PRESS & FOLD MAGAZINE
Issue 0 — The Street
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold is an independent fashion magazine that aims to explore alternative fashion forms and narratives. The bi-annual magazine provides a platform for critical fashion practitioners who do not obey the rules the fashion system is currently dictating. Press & Fold focuses on a fashion reality that isn’t based solely on consuming the latest fashions but on our experiences through fashion, seeking an alternative fashion discourse that goes beyond treating fashion as a commodity. Initiated by Hanka van der Voet.

PORTAL Issue #001 & #002
Publication Design
PORTAL is a research project by Elisa van Joolen which investigates the emotional, social and economic value of clothing worn by the visitors of this traveling installation. Presented at Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and State of Fashion, Arnhem

METROPOLIS M
Identity & Magazine Design
Re-design of Dutch contemporary art magazine Metropolis M. In collaboration with Studio Remco van Bladel & Andrea Spikker.

CONTOUR BIENNALE 8
Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium
Book design, Graphic Identity, Website for Contour Biennale 8, Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, 2017. Curated by Natasha Ginwala. Design in collaboration with Studio Remco van Bladel. Awarded for Best Dutch Book Design 2017
About
With a background in graphic design Beau Bertens set up their creative practice in 2016, working on a variety of projects with different media purposes within the Dutch cultural domain. By interweaving diverse techniques and media, Beau researches the context and meaning of visual language in a playful manner. Currently, they are focusing on re-navigating the design discourse, questioning its structures of production by utilizing practices of embodiment.
This website shows a selection of projects for a full portfolio request and assignments please get in touch.
Contact
Services
Artistic Research
Art & Creative Direction
Book Design
Brand Identity
Website Design
Selected clients
Ace & Tate, Pastoe, Metropolis M, PORTAL by Elisa van Joolen, Camiel Fortgens, Clothes Lines Press, Library of Unruly Fashion Practice, Press & Fold Magazine, Meetsysteem, De School, ArtEZ Press, ArtEZ Fashion Professorship, LOGO OFFICE, MUTTER, JOIN Collective Clothes by Anouk Beckers, WeTransfer, Re-Imagine Europe
Honors and Awards
Best Dutch Book Designs 2025 — HET ATLIJD, De School
Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 — Hearings: A Reader, Contour Biennale 8 (In collaboration with Remco van Bladel)
Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 — WdW Review, Arts, Culture, and Journalism in Revolt, Vol. 1 (2013–2016) (In collaboration with Remco van Bladel)
Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 — Rafaël Rozendaal. Everything, Always, Everywhere (In collaboration with Remco van Bladel)
© 2025



































JOIN Collective Clothes, Manual Design,
published by Warehouse
PORTAL zine 001 & 002,
project by Elisa van Joolen
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Camiel Fortgens, label design
Camiel Fortgens, lookbook design
Bodily, drawing on paper, 2022
De vijf pijlers van design, published
by Artez Press
Mutter Pouch Residue, print on paper, 2022
JOIN Collective Clothes, Manual Design,
published by Warehouse
Camiel Fortgens, label design
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Dissolving the Ego of Fashion,
published by ArtEZ Press
Rafaël Rozendaal, Everything, Always,
Everywhere, published by Valiz
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Photography JOIN Collective Clothes
Research Project Uncover Archive
Research Project Uncover Archive
Metropolis M Magazine,
Editorial Design & Identity
Mutter Pouch
Art Direction & Design Press & Fold Magazine
Hearings: A Reader, published by SternbergPress
Contour Biennale 8, Polyphonic Worlds:
Justice as Medium
Contour Biennale 8, Polyphonic Worlds:
Justice as Medium
JOIN Collective Clothes, Manual Design,
published by Warehouse
Doodles, Drawing
De vijf pijlers van design, published
by Artez Press
Selected Projects

ALL WORK IS WOMEN’S WORK
Art Direction & Photography
Garments Xeroxed (Alia Mascia)
Part of this publishing project a series of garments where produced in collaboration with Alia Mascia’s XEROXED. The XEROXED garments, as wearable publications, function as moving memorial plaques in public space, honouring the often invisibilised histories of working-class women.

ALL WORK IS WOMEN’S WORK
Publication Design
Publisher Clothes Line Press
The publication uncovers the forgotten story of The Seamstresses’ Union, one of the first all-female labour unions in the Netherlands, and their radical use of print media to challenge patriarchal and capitalist systems in the early 20th century.

UNCOVER ARCHIVE
Research & Design
The website presents a curated archive of fashion publication artefacts spanning 1970–2000, with the aim of creating a decentralised network of resources. The platform is further enriched by reflections in the form of writings by Emma Singleton, Laura Gardner, Femke de Vries, Colby Vexler, and Justin Clemens. Supported by Stimulerings Fonds.

PRESS & FOLD
PILLOW TALK
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold’s first merch drop. Pillow Talk is a series of cotton pillow cases created with deadstock material from Camiel Fortgens. They come with a hand-embroidered ampersand by Press & Fold art director Beau Bertens. Photography by Loes de Boer.

PRACTISING SOLIDARITY
Book Design
Publisher ArtEZ Press
Practising Solidarity, the follow-up to ‘Dissolving the Ego of Fashion’ by Daniëlle Bruggeman — brings together inspiring collaborations reflecting on how fashion can foster solidarity with all living beings through critical, affirmative, and embodied practices. Cover & type design with Manon Fraser. Image by Zindzi Zwietering.

ANNE NOOR
Custom Typeface
Custom type design created for the publication Practising Solidarity. Anne Noor is a script-based typeface designed together with Manon Fraser. Inspired by the textures of needlework, this typeface became a personification of womanhood and handcraft, incarnated in a fictional persona Anna Noor.

HET ALTIJD (2016—2024)
Book Design
Publisher De School
A 160-page visual journey to and through De School Amsterdam. A sensory, rearrangeable and time-transcending capsule of individual and communal experiences. Back to what once was and now is - voor altijd.
Awarded for Best Dutch Book Design 2025

PRESS & FOLD
PILLOW TALK
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold’s first merch drop. Pillow Talk is a series of cotton pillow cases created with deadstock material from Camiel Fortgens. They come with a hand-embroidered ampersand by Press & Fold art director Beau Bertens. Photography by Loes de Boer.

MUTTER Pouch
Product Development & Design
Product development and design of merch for Amsterdam based art space MUTTER. The MUTTER Pouch is developed in collaboration with atelier Toër initiated by Tomas Ermin.

MUTTER Pouch Residue
Print
Product development and design of merch for Amsterdam based art space MUTTER. The MUTTER Pouch is developed in collaboration with atelier Toër initiated by Tomas Ermin.

PRESS & FOLD MAGAZINE
Issue 02 — Resistance
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold is an independent fashion magazine that aims to explore alternative fashion forms and narratives. The bi-annual magazine provides a platform for critical fashion practitioners who do not obey the rules the fashion system is currently dictating. Press & Fold focuses on a fashion reality that isn’t based solely on consuming the latest fashions but on our experiences through fashion, seeking an alternative fashion discourse that goes beyond treating fashion as a commodity. Initiated by Hanka van der Voet.

JOIN COLLECTIVE CLOTHES
Brand Identity & Manual Design
JOIN Collective Clothes is a design and research project which explores fashion as a collective practice, focusing on making and wearing clothes together. Every shape is an addition to a growing collection of clothing-pieces that can be assembled into a variety of garments. A manual guides the maker through the process of making one of the four different shapes.

DE VIJF PIJLERS VAN DESIGN
Book Design
Design for De vijf pijlers van design, handbook on designing utensils. By Hans Ansems & Jeroen van den Eijnde. Published by Artez Press.

PRESS & FOLD MAGAZINE
Issue 01 — Luxury
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold is an independent fashion magazine that aims to explore alternative fashion forms and narratives. The bi-annual magazine provides a platform for critical fashion practitioners who do not obey the rules the fashion system is currently dictating. Press & Fold focuses on a fashion reality that isn’t based solely on consuming the latest fashions but on our experiences through fashion, seeking an alternative fashion discourse that goes beyond treating fashion as a commodity. Initiated by Hanka van der Voet.

RAFAEL ROZENDAAL.
EVERYTHING, ALWAYS, EVERYWHERE
Book Design
Everything, Always, Everywhere, reflects on the change that Rozendaal's work has undergone in recent years; looking at both his own evolution as an artist, and the technological progress that has influenced digital art in general. Design in collaboration with Studio Remco van Bladel. Published by Valiz. Texts by Margriet Schavemaker, Kodama Kanazawa, Christiane Paul & Marvin Jordan. Awarded for Best Dutch Book Design 2019.

CAMIEL FORTGENS
Label Design
Original label design for Camiel Fortgens, used as of today founded in 2014.

PRESS & FOLD MAGAZINE
Issue 0 — The Street
Art Direction & Design
Press & Fold is an independent fashion magazine that aims to explore alternative fashion forms and narratives. The bi-annual magazine provides a platform for critical fashion practitioners who do not obey the rules the fashion system is currently dictating. Press & Fold focuses on a fashion reality that isn’t based solely on consuming the latest fashions but on our experiences through fashion, seeking an alternative fashion discourse that goes beyond treating fashion as a commodity. Initiated by Hanka van der Voet.

PORTAL Issue #001 & #002
Publication Design
PORTAL is a research project by Elisa van Joolen which investigates the emotional, social and economic value of clothing worn by the visitors of this traveling installation. Presented at Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam and State of Fashion, Arnhem.

METROPOLIS M
Identity & Magazine Design
Re-design of Dutch contemporary art magazine Metropolis M. In collaboration with Studio Remco van Bladel & Andrea Spikker.

CONTOUR BIENNALE 8
Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium
Book design, Graphic Identity, Website for Contour Biennale 8, Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium, 2017. Curated by Natasha Ginwala. Design in collaboration with Studio Remco van Bladel. Awarded for Best Dutch Book Design 2017.
About
With a background in graphic design Beau Bertens set up their creative practice in 2016, working on a variety of projects with different media purposes within the Dutch cultural domain. By interweaving diverse techniques and media, Beau researches the context and meaning of visual language in a playful manner. Currently, they are focusing on re-navigating the design discourse, questioning its structures of production by utilizing practices of embodiment.
This website shows a selection of projects for a full portfolio request and assignments please get in touch.
Services
Artistic Research
Art & Creative Direction
Book Design
Brand Identity
Website Design
Selected clients
Ace & Tate, Pastoe, Metropolis M, PORTAL by Elisa van Joolen, Camiel Fortgens, Clothes Lines Press, Library of Unruly Fashion Practice, Press & Fold Magazine, Meetsysteem, De School, ArtEZ Press, ArtEZ Fashion Professorship, LOGO OFFICE, MUTTER, JOIN Collective Clothes by Anouk Beckers, WeTransfer, Re-Imagine Europe
Honors and Awards
Best Dutch Book Designs 2025 — HET ATLIJD, De School
Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 — Hearings: A Reader, Contour Biennale 8 (In collaboration with Remco van Bladel)
Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 — WdW Review, Arts, Culture, and Journalism in Revolt, Vol. 1 (2013–2016) (In collaboration with Remco van Bladel)
Best Dutch Book Designs 2017 — Rafaël Rozendaal. Everything, Always, Everywhere (In collaboration with Remco van Bladel)
© 2025