wooden learning material

And a bit more learning material. The boxes are stackable, so have no lids.

Somewhat red and somewhat brown

The first year in Art-college is a year of playing around with materials, colours, textures, ideas and concepts. Lots of drawing, painting, but also 3-dimensional work. Most of the time it was a lot of hard work!
This small book is a colourstudy. I think I might scan is sometime to use the textures as a background for illustrations or something else. I'll definately find a destination for them!

Here! Sit! Down! Good boy...

I love dogs and that's why a colleague gave me this agenda. It's a design made for 'Papier Hier!' (Paper here!), a day where a Dutch Paper Supplier shows its new collection. The designer approached this title as a way to 'talk' to a dog. So Dutch Illustrator Bart van Leeuwen was asked to develop a dog character called Paper.

Childhood games

I photographed these games over at my parents' house. My mother used to play these games with us. Some of them still look quite new, but they are definately from the sixties or early seventies. Vintage, I'd say! I remember playing Electro. I was never any good at it, so the pictures are imprinted in my visual memory...

Cooking in vintage style

Always lovely, old cooking books. Especially with illustrations.

Doodling in a new Moleskine

I always fear the white pages of a new notebook, especially if it's a Moleskine... I don't want to blemish it. The result is that I have a lot of empty notebooks on the bookshelf. But this time I went ahead and started scribbling and doodling. Great, 'cause these textures are the result of that effort.

Getting stuck with Zwarte Piet

This cardgame is called 'Zwarte Pieten' in Dutch. I couldn't find the English word for this game. The idea is to form pairs, in this case a boy and a girl. When you get 'stuck' with the little black boy (Zwarte Piet) at the end of the game you loose. Not very politically correct, right?! But the illustrations are lovely!

Chinesische Holzschnitte

This small German book shows Chinese woodblock prints. A beautiful book which shows beautiful, delicate prints. So great that I came across this one!

Truckload

My son's vintage toy!

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 .

Picking fruit

My own private (somewhat weird) collection of fruitlabels.