Teun van der Heijden is a graphic designer and co-founder of Heijdens Karwei, a graphic design agency based partly in Amsterdam and partly in New York. They are known for the design of award winning photography books like Black Passport, Diamond Matters, Rape of a Nation, Latitude Zero, Interrogations, War Porn, Gold Coast, Inshallah, and recently REX. Sandra and Teun have collaborated with many well-known photographers among them: Ying Ang, Nina Berman, Marcus Bleasdale, Elina Brotherus, Zackary Canepari, Alexander Chekmenev, Stanley Greene, Kadir van Lohuizen, Philip Toledano, Donald Weber and many more. Since more then ten years Heijdens Karwei designs the World Press Photo yearbooks and exhibitions. 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.