Support BLUE Magazine

German surf culture without BLUE magazine?

For the better part of the last 20 years, BLUE has been a fixture in the German surfing community. To keep the fire burning in this dificult times, we need your support.

The production of our yearbook, including the wages for our authors, photographers, editorial staff and designers is largely financed by the pages we sell to advertisers. Due to the corona crisis many of our loyal partners had to pull their ads and sponsorships, which leaves this year's publication and our publishing house in a very dire financial situation.

Every REWARD sold helps to raise the money needed to publish this special BLUE Yearbook 2020. You'll get one of our limited artist collaborations, a BLUE Yearbook fresh off the printers delivered to your door and a personal shoutout on a dedicated funding page in the magazine. If you're short on change, but would still like to help out, we appreciate that a lot and got you covered with our 10€ "thank you" gift. Every contribution counts!

Very straightforward: Our goal is to finance the Blue Yearbook 2020. The money raised will be put to good use, paying the authors, photographers, editors, designers, our printing and all distribution costs.

Additionally, we'll donate 1% of the funding to the SURFRIDER FOUNDATION GERMANY - keep our oceans clean!

BLUE was established in 1999, as Germany's first surf publication. Our yearbook is a high quality print magazine combining surf culture, art, portraits, travel and creative living. It's a year's worth of timeless stories condensed into 164 pages, that sets standards in today’s surf publication landscape.

We'll put everything we have into creating a very special edition for our 20th anniversary. As always, it's been a very inspiring journey working with the greats of the surf world. By funding this year's magazine, you help the writers, photographers and artists featured in our stories as well.

Many of our independent contributors have been massively affected and we do it for them, just as much as for our readers! With your support we can offer you the stories that keep you inspired and pay the storytellers a fair wage.

The money will be used to cover editorial, production and distribution costs. Of course this includes all fees for our many freelance photographers and authors, without whom it would be impossible to realize BLUE in the usual quality.

Furthermore we donate 1% of the funding to the SURFRIDER FOUNDATION GERMANY - keep our oceans clean!