Teun van der Heijden is a graphic designer and co-founder of Heijdens Karwei, a graphic design agency based in Amsterdam and New York. They are known for the design of award-winning photography books. Well-known titles from their work: Black Passport and Western Front [Stanley Greene], Rape of a Nation [Marcus Bleasdale], Interrogations and War Sand [Donald Weber], War Porn [Kristof Bangert], Carpe Fucking Diem [Elina Brotherus], REX [Zackary Canepari], An Autobiography of Miss Wish [Nina Berman], The Migrant [Anaïs López], 1078 Blue Skies [Anton Kusters], The Poverty Line [Chow and Lin], Goldcoast and The Quickening [Ying Ang], Centralia [Poulomi Basu], She Never Rode that Trishaw Again [Sim Chi Yin], SAKASA [Chloé Jafé] and recently Hard Times are Fighting Times [Alice Proujansky].
Together with his partner Sandra van der Doelen he is teaching photo book workshops all over the world.
Teun has studied graphic design at St. Joost in Breda. A post academic studies in Art-Direction at the HKU in Utrecht and Photography at ACF in Amsterdam.
Next to running Heijdens Karwei Teun is professor Visual Design and Hybrid media at the LUCA School of Arts in Genk, Belgium and a faculty member of ICP, the International Center of Photography in New York and teacher at the MAPS program [Master Photography and Society] at the KABK [Royal Academy of Arts] in The Hague.
Teun is author of ‘Of Simple Cells and Visual Associations in Photobook Editing’ an article that is featured in the international open-access peer-reviewed journal Trans Asia Photography Vol. 14, published by Duke University Press.