Learning to Embrace my When-Ready concept
Creating Let's Explore Magazine follows a when-ready concept. The upcoming Empowerment-issue is no exception. Curiosity and inspiration are key. Read More
Exam Celebration and Future Plans
I hope you’re doing well and can stay safe. I’ve been keeping myself busy and would like to update you on what’s been going on. I’ll be talking about my plans for the future and will ...Read More
Never stop learning
Over the past year and a half, something has been brewing inside of me. It got fueled by my volunteer work on Lesvos and now, the moment has come to act on this gut feeling. Read More
The Non-Disposable Project
The first week of July is almost here, which means I will be volunteering in a refugee camp on Lesvos. I’ll be going with a humanitarian organization called Because We Carry, whose slogan is (loosely translated from Dutch ...Read More
Because we Carry
Let’s Explore Magazine as a project is pretty much a reflection of who I am and what makes me tick. Over the course of making the Perseverance issue, contributions evolved into more socially aware type of stories and, besides ...Read More
Looking back at 2018 and forward to 2019
Even though the new year is already well on its way, I still want to take the time to do a little wrap-up of 2018. It’s been quite the year and I am noticing that reflecting on past ...Read More
Building My Story
The final part of my website-update has to do with my about-page, or how I like to call it from this point on: My Story. While making my magazine, I get the chance to think long and hard ...Read More
There is always more
I have this little voice in the back of my mind that always seems to be wanting more. More time, more inspiration, making more, I even want more free time to do “nothing”…go figure. It simultaneously feels like ...Read More
Driven by Curiosity
After launching the new issue, themed Perseverance, and fulfilling all the pre-orders, we took a 2.5-week breather and this had a profound influence on me. What I can say at this point in time, is that I ...Read More
Let’s Build 2017
As the year slowly passes, people started asking when the next issue of LEM will be ready. In this post I answer some FAQ's and my plans for 2017. Read More
Perfect imperfection
Shooting film is changing the way we take photo's, but also the way we look at creating in general. Sharing some ideas as we venture towards our next issue. Read More
Let’s Explore Magazine Relaunch
The respons after the launch and distribution of Issue 00 themed BeLongIng, has been nothing but mind blowing. Needless to say, we're incredibly proud that we have made it this far and are looking forward to what the future ...Read More
Let’s build in 2016
Now that our inaugural issue is send to our amazing backers, it is time to look ahead. We have a few existing features we want to address as well as announce a few new ones. Read More
Wrapping up 2015…
Wrapping up 2015 with a personal note. We went from exploring SE Asia to launching our inaugural issue. This, in short, is what happend this year! Read More
And off we go!
We're excited to tell you, that all the LEMerchandise is on its way to LEM-HQ and that the magazine has gone to print! Read More
The almighty flat plan
Our launch issue is coming around nicely and the feeling we get when we see all the stories together like this is hard to describe. ‘Humbling’ comes close. As this dream, slowly, is becoming a reality buy cytotec ...Read More
Launch issue: grid design
In this post we share how we went about crafting the grid that we’ll be using throughout the launch issue of our printed magazine. It's a first of more to come work in progress post leading up the ...Read More