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Film: We chat to Gert Jonkers of Fantastic Man and MagCulture's Jeremy Leslie

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Date
11 July 2013

The final of our videos from this year’s What Design Can Do conference in Amsterdam takes us into the world of magazine publishing, and Fantatsic Man to be precise. At the event, founders Gert Jonkers and Jop van Bennekom were interviewed by MagCulture’s Jeremy Leslie, and after they came off stage we grabbed Gert and Jeremy to talk about the evolution of The Gentlewoman and how you balance detail and strategy as a publisher.

You can see the full talk below and you can also watch our interview with food designer Marije Vogelzang here, Twitter design lead Mike Kruzeniski here and conceptual designers Next Nature here.

Two people stand side by side, both wearing black. The person on the right speaks while the person on the left looks on. In the background, a large ornate chandelier hangs in a brightly lit room.
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Gert and Jeremy speak to us backstage

A black and white double-page spread from a magazine. The left page shows a person in a dark suit standing against a textured stone wall, while the right page features a close-up portrait of the same person.
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Fantastic Man on the big screen

Three people sit around a yellow table on a stage against a black background. They are engaged in a conversation, with a large yellow lamp casting light from the left.
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Gert, Jeremy and Jop on stage

A bold typographic image in red and yellow reads “WHAT DESIGN CAN DO!”. A black, hand-drawn squiggle separates the words “DESIGN” and “CAN DO!”.
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What Design Can Do

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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