Jumbo lotto

Vintage lotto game for kids, with amazing vintage illustrations. I just love stumbling upon games like these in the thriftshop!

Good housekeeping

A few vintage books about cooking and baking, sewing and good housekeeping. In short, everything a woman needs to know!

encyclopedic sea urchins & deepsea animals

Sanna Annukka

 

 

You're probably all familiar with Sanna Annukka's work, but I couldn't help blogging about her. I love what she does! I love her patterns, her character design, her work for Marimekko, but I think her editorial work is great as well!
Above you can see the illustrations she did for Wallpaper Magazine's Dutch Supplement.

Eye Magazine

We're moving. And by 'we' I mean the company I work for. Not far, though. We're staying in the same building. But it does mean that we're throwing out lots of stuff. Old projects, office furniture but also old magazines and books. And that's were I come in! I took a lot of 'garbage' home, great books and stacks of design magazines, such as these old issues of Eye Magazine. Great! I'll go through them and hopefully come up with a lot of new blogposts.

Anish Kapoor

One of the artists I admire the most is Anish Kapoor, Indian sculpture, who lives and works in London. The first time I came across his work was in Museum de Pont in Tilburg, a few of his works are part of their collection. 

Kapoor's pieces are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. Most often, the intention is to engage the viewer, producing awe through their size and simple beauty, evoking mystery through the works' dark cavities, tactility through their inviting surfaces, and fascination through their reflective facades. His early pieces rely on powder pigment to cover the works and the floor around them. Such use of pigment characterised his first high profile exhibit as part of the New Sculpture exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London in 1978. This practice was inspired by the mounds of brightly coloured pigment in the markets and temples of India. His later works are made of solid, quarried stone, many of which have carved apertures and cavities, often alluding to, and playing with, dualities (earth-sky, matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, visible-invisible, conscious-unconscious, male-female and body-mind). His most recent works are mirror-like, reflecting or distorting the viewer and surroundings. The use of red wax is also part of his current repertoire, evocative of flesh, blood and transfiguration.

Source: Wikipedia

Is it a box or is it a book?

Eye love books is a great book/box from BIS publishers. It's an exhibition catalogue of children's books made by artists. With contributions by 53 Dutch artists/ illustrators. Nearly all the contributions are unique, made for the artists' own children or close friends. A poster is inserted, to cut-out and add to the artist-picture book description.

Susan Kare

Without actually realising it, Susan Kare infuenced and changed my professional life. She began her career at Apple Inc. where she was the screen graphics and digital font designer for the original Macintosh computer. Her icons made the computer accessible and even attractive to me. Before I got in touch with WYSIWYG, I was quite 'scared' of computers.
According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York Susan is 'a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. She has designed thousands of icons for the world's leading software companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.'

So, besides Steve Jobs, I would like to thank Susan for making me love my Mac!