This arti­cle is devoted to the Dutch Graphic Design Scene and hosts a roundup of great design mag­a­zines and graphic design blogs from The Nether­lands. In this roundup of some of the Mag­a­zines & Blogs are in Dutch oth­ers are writ­ten in Eng­lish. Below each of the screen­shot there is lan­guage infor­ma­tion, please enjoy this list of Dutch Graphic Design Mag­a­zines & Blogs, share your favorite Dutch Design blog in the com­ments below. Thank you and enjoy reading!

Fontanel : Online Design Magazine

Fontanel is one of Hol­lands largest blogs and online mag­a­zine about design and graphic design. Oper­ated by three very enthu­si­as­tic Dutch Design­ers, Thomas Moes, Erik Gelderblom and Willem van Roos­malen, which share on a daily basis their design news and phi­los­o­phy. Recently Fontanel is redesigned with a com­plete new look and feel which allows you to really focus on the con­tent and encour­age you to read more.

Love the sim­ple pre­sen­ta­tion styles on Fontanel. Exactly what a pub­li­ca­tion can be; oppor­tu­ni­ties for design. — Jason Santa Maria at Twit­ter about Fontanel

Fontanel focuses on design, typog­ra­phy, graphic design, art and will show you inspi­ra­tion from other design mag­a­zines. They also host a cal­en­dar with up-to-date Dutch Design Information.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Please visit the great Fontanel web­site and read about the recent redesign in this arti­cle. Thanks guys and keep it up!

Design Blog: Rietveld Academie

Design­blog is an online research project ini­ti­ated by Henk Groe­nendijk. It is part of the Foun­da­tion Year’s design pro­gram and stim­u­lates inter­ac­tion between the design world and all the Foun­da­tion Year stu­dents. This blog intro­duces the pos­si­bil­ity to enjoy and study a vari­ety of sub­jecs inves­ti­gated in the course of ever chang­ing clas­sic and con­tem­po­rary design themes. It presents research, opin­ion and reflec­tion in a vari­ety of forms.

• Lan­guage [English]
• Enjoy the posts at the Design Blog Rietveld Acad­e­mie.

Design.nl

Design.nl is a wide focuses blog about Dutch Design, from inter­views with Dutch Design­ers to inspi­ra­tion, show­cases and more. It also holds a great cal­en­dar with Dutch hap­pen­ings in design. Fre­quently updated with news and information.

• Lan­guage [English]
• Find the posts at the design.nl.

Graphic Design Museum blog

The Graphic Design Museum in Breda, The Nether­lands. Here you’ll find vision­ary state­ments about the chang­ing posi­tion of the graphic design dis­ci­pline. Visu­als and slo­gans, sto­ries behind the objects in our col­lec­tion, essays about the sub­jects of our exhi­bi­tions and some of our favorite graphic design resources on the web.

The Graphic Design Museum is the first museum in the world for graphic design. The museum is in the cen­tre of Breda and exhibits the broad and dynamic area of graphic design. Really worth the visit when you are in The Nether­lands, Breda.

• Lan­guage blog [English]
• Find the blog at Graphic Design Museum Blog.
• Infor­ma­tion about the Graphic Design Museum, Breda.

NAGO: Ned­er­lands Archief Grafisch Ontwerpers

NAGO holds the largest Dutch Archief on graphic design, design­ers and design agen­cies from the Nether­lands. NAGO is an excep­tional resource for what Dutch Design­ers cre­ated over the last decades. With a good search func­tion­ally you are able to search for arists, work, tech­nique and more. When brows­ing NAGO you really get a good feel­ing of Dutch Design and Art.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Find the web­site at NAGO.

Dutch Design History

Design His­tory NL is the web­site of the Dutch foun­da­tion that encour­ages research and pub­li­ca­tions about design his­tory. The foun­da­tion also orga­nizes meet­ings, lec­tures, con­fer­ences and other activ­i­ties for par­tic­i­pants: design his­to­ri­ans, authors and those who are inter­ested in the sub­ject. You will find infor­ma­tion about their research in who is who in research.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Find the web­site at Dutch Design His­tory.

Online/Offline mag­a­zine: Bright

Bright Mag­a­zine is an offline and online plat­form which shows you the lat­est infor­ma­tion about design, tech­nol­ogy, gad­gets and more. The online mag­a­zine is an con­stant update of infor­ma­tion and if you can find the printed mag­a­zine be sure to get a copy, great con­tent. They also hosts tv series where the lat­est gad­gets are reviewed, very funny and educational.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Find the web­site at Bright.nl and the Bright TV Series.

Archi­tecten­web

Hol­lands largest web­site about Dutch Archi­tec­ture and every­thing involved around design, pro­duc­tion, events in rela­tion to archi­tec­ture. Daily updated with archi­tec­ture projects in The Netherlands.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Find the web­site at Archi­tecten­web.

Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer Mag­a­zine is an online and offline plaform for Dutch web designers.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Find the web­site at Web Designer Mag­a­zine.

Type Media

Type­Me­dia is a one year mas­ter course in type design, the blog hosts arti­cles from stu­dents and teach­ers. Oper­ated by Dutch Type design­ers such as Erik van Blok­land, Fred Smei­jers and Peter Verheul.

• Lan­guage [English]
• Find the blog at Type Media.

1st Floor

Floor Drees a free­lance design­ers and copy­righter oper­ates a Dutch Design blog filled with design news, gad­gets, typog­ra­phy news and more. Very fre­quently updated.

• Lan­guage [Dutch]
• Find the blog at 1st Floor Graph­ics and other sto­ries.

Share your favorite Dutch design resource

Enjoy read­ing the resources in this roundup and please share your favorite Dutch Design Blog or online mag­a­zine in the com­ments below.