About Bigglab

Bigglab was founded in 2006 by Maarten van den Biggelaar, after which he gathered a team around him - consisting of creative, business and organizational talents.

Bigglab develops its own new companies, products, and services.

Bigglab acts as a (creative) consultant for new and existing companies.

Maarten van den Biggelaar

Maarten van den Biggelaar is the former CEO and currently a creative consultant of Hachette Filipacchi Media The Netherlands, the company he started in 1986 (then named Quote Media).
This company's first activity was launching Quote, now the largest Dutch business & media entertainment magazine. Maarten was also one of the founders of Planet Internet. In 1996, in collaboration with Liberty Media, Quote Media started the Dutch version of interactive music channel The Box. The channel was sold to German corporation Viva Media AG in 2001.

Things do go wrong sometimes: working together with broadcasting company Veronica, Maarten started VNR (Veronica News Radio) in 1995. This project ended after one year. Maarten studied law at VU University in Amsterdam and at New York University.
During his student days he started a number of catering establishments, of which the most well-known are Dansen bij Jansen and Restaurant Eerste Klas (at Amsterdam Central Station), both located in Amsterdam.


Bigglab Consults.

Hearst Magazines Nederland
Creative consultantcy Quote & Elle

TROS (Dutch broadcasting organisation)
Development of New Media projects
Radar+

Audax Publishing
creative consultancy

Scotch&Soda
Board of directors

Vidigo
Board of directors


aContinuousReport.com
In connection with Travelteq; a blog about life, style and culture. This blog focuses on the small details that make our life so special!
www.aContinuousReport.com

Gamious

Gamious focuses on digitally and distributedly publishing original, easily accessible and high-quality games. Its founders are Pim Bouwman (formerly of Endemol and Spil Games) and Maarten van den Biggelaar.

Recent changes in the ever-dynamic games industry have prompted a different role for publishers. Starting out has become much easier, which has resulted in the market being flooded with games - with only a limited amount of commercial successes. Pim Bouman: "there's no lack of good game developers. There is, however, a shortage of publishers who can leverage scale in the domains of marketing and distribution. By choosing the right formats and effectively exploiting intellectual properties, we want to provide good games with the success they deserve."

Bigglab Digital
Digital is the creative delivery room, where useful and completely useless digital products are realized.
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Bigglab in Adformatie
In early 2009, Maarten van den Biggelaar gave an interview about Bigglab's activities.
Click here for the full article


Contact
If you would like to discuss your plans with us, email or send your phone number so we can contact you.
Contact: info@bigglab.com

TravelTeq
Bigglab started a "luxurious goods" company in late 2009: TravelTeq.com. High-tech innovations, and classic and trendy design are characteristic of our suitcases, bags and other travel products.
The first product is a carry-on case that combines old beauty with well thought-out design. Many unique features will make the suitcase indispensable during your short and long journeys.

www.travelteq.com
Contact: info@bigglab.com

Jose Rozenbroek

mugshot_02After her master Dutch Language and Literature (cum laude) José Rozenbroek (1960) started working as a journalist for several women’s magazines. From 1996 till 2004 José was Editor in Chief of ELLE Holland. In 2003 she launched ELLEgirl; in 2004 she launched Red Holland for Hachette Filipacchi and she became Red’s first Editor in Chief till November 2007. Then she was asked to become Editor in Chief of the weekly magazine of the Volkskrant, the biggest quality paper in Holland.
From the beginning of 2012, she started her own company for developing en consulting magazines and other media and working as a partner at Bigglab.
Under her leadership José has received several Mercurs, the major magazine awards in Holland. In 2001 ELLE won the Mercur for magazine of the year; in 2003 Ellegirl won the Mercur for launching of the year; in 2004 José received the Award for Editor in Chief of the year and in 2005 Red won the Award for launching of the year. Lastly, Volkskrant magazine has won the Award for the best cover of the year in 2008 and 2009.
José’s USP: thinking in concepts. And make them real with the help of her huge network of general and special interest journalists, editors, art directors, photographers.


Studio Online
Studio Online offers huge savings for publishers, art directors and printers. An initiative that saves a lot of costs has to become successful. A good reason for Bigglab to invest in this startup.
Studio Online has developed software to streamline the large quantities of images that photographers send to publishers. Simply put, the publisher defines all specifics in the system, like resolution and color profile, per magazine. The photographer only needs to upload the images and click on the magazine that the photos are meant for. After that, the system makes sure that the images reach the proper contact at the magazine, precisely according to the specified characteristics.

Studio Online also offers solutions for image editing. Orders can be made online, based on fully transparent costs and tight delivery times. Complete studio services are offered for image editing, retouching, archive digitalization, scanning and design; in short, everything you might expect from a complete graphic design studio.


Project Collision
Collision is a computer game, thought up by astrophysicist Diederik Kruijssen (24). Bigglab and Diederik founded a joint venture that will launch the product in 2011. Firstly, this will be directed at the world's amateur astronomers. Visit www.projectcollision.com for more information.
Collision is a game that takes place in space, during the future collision between our Milky Way and the nearby Andromeda system, that will, three billion years in the future, destroy all life on earth. The player leads one of the missions searching for a new, safe home world.


Lennart de Meij

mugshot_02After finishing his Communication and Multimedia Design study, Lennart started his own company in 2007. One of his first clients was Maarten van den Biggelaar, and they kept working together on several digital projects.
Lennart is responsible for Bigglab's websites and iPhone applications.

www.lennartdemeij.com

Durk Hattink

After his (aborted) study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, Durk started out as a freelance designer for Margriet magazine. He got his first permanent job in 1997, designing at business magazine Quote. Four years later, Durk took over the wheel as art director. In 2004 he received the Mercur for Art Director of the Year, and two years later he became Creative Director for Quote Media (now Hachette Filipacchi Media The Netherlands).
In 2007, Durk started his own one man show under the Durk.com moniker.
His preference goes to applying his visual talent to restyling magazines and company visual styles.

Contact: durk@bigglab.com

Mirjam van Tiel

Mirjam van Tiel studied politics at the University of Amsterdam, and sociology at the New School for Social Research (in New York). She worked as a researcher at first, later transferring to magazine publishing (at Quote Media, Amsterdam, and Hearst Magazines international, New York, amongst others). Mirjam is experienced at organizing events and managing projects.
Her interest goes out to innovative media projects. She is the first point of contact at Bigglab.

Contact: mirjam@bigglab.com