Posters

A small book from 1966 with a lot of fantastic posters, from Henri de Toulouse Lautrec to Marcello Nizzoli

Ancient communication

Last summer I bought these fantastic telegrams at a flea market in Gent, Belgium.

Getting married

I found this vintage card one day when we were on holiday in Bordeaux, France. A flea market was just finished and one of the salesmen left this card behind.

Cleaning soap

Found at my favourite thrift shop.

Obscure little box

Better not tell you where I got this one from...

In the Zoo

A beautiful collecting cards book about a day trip to the zoo. This book is from 1925, I bought it at the second hand bookstore. This text is terribly politically incorrect, but nothing beats that cover!

A stack of l'illustration

Like a lot of people I have a stack of these French newspapers. I can never get myself to 'throwing' them out. I just love the adverts, maybe I can use them sometime in a design.

Rie Cramer's Summer

I know, summer hasn't started, not temperature-wise, nor calendar-wise... But hopefully this post will get the summer with us quite soon.
This old Dutch children's book is illustrated and written by Rie Cramer. It's part of a series of four books, I guess you can fill in the blanks!

Margriet, born in 1938

I've a small stack of these old magazines Margriet, for mother and child. Margriet and Libelle are two competing magazines which both focus on women from about 30-70. The articles the ad can be hilarious sometimes. It's so great to see that both magazines are with us for such a long time and it's interesting to realize that their main focus is still very much the same.

Boem paukeslag!

This book is a book about publishing books, about printing, typography, graphic design but also about writers and poets.
The last picture is an well-known Dutch example of a so-called concrete poet or shape poet: Poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. The poet 'Boem Paukeslag' (translated as 'boom drumbeat) is written by Flemish poet and writer and Dada artist Paul van Ostaijen in written around 1920.
I love this poet, because of its typographical and poetical importance .