H is for HOORAY!

Today I received this in the mail! My friend Yvette sent it to me as a birthday gift! (Yesterday was my b-day). Thanks Yvette! I love it, I love the typeface, a big fat slab serif, gorgeous! My collection is getting bigger and bigger

Great grandmother

My parents have a box in which they keep some memories, such as this old passport. My mother's grandmother whom she never got to know.

Grandfather's letters

My grandfather was in the United Kingdom during World War II. My grandmother and my mother stayed in the Netherlands. They kept in touch by writing letters/notes to each other. The letters were sent via the Red Cross. Of course letters had to be approved by the German Wehrmacht hence the stamps. The letters and the Red Cross forms are part of my grandparents legacy.

Happy families part three

I bought a few Happy Families the other day. I blogged about the game on the right here. Back then I didn't have the box, now I do!

Latest asset

The latest asset to our house are these wonderful and colourful items from Miho design. I found this video on their website, it's as beautiful as the products are!

The Prince of the illustrated magazines

Now that Spring finally seems to kick in I'd like to lure you with a Christmas edition of this beautiful magazine. The photos are fantastic and the advertisments are really great! I just love the last one, which is on the back cover.

Henk Cornelissen

Henk Cornelissen was my graphic design teacher for 4 years at Art-college in Breda (st. Joost). He had a big influence on me during my study and when I see his work I can still see why. His work is based upon the idea of coincidence. He makes coincidental patterns and textures. He creates his work on 50x65 cm size paper within strict boundaries.

I love patterns and textures and I admire artists or designers who's work is based upon a certain sense of persistency. When I come to think of it, that might have started when I was in Art-college...

Found in the trash part two

I found this old magazine lying on the street right next to this book. Lucky find!

Animal lotto once again

You just gotta love these kind of children's games! I bought this one a while ago in my favorite second hand store. But I've got another game just like it which I've posted before, you can see it here. Those illustrations are a bit softer.

Old Dutch lotto

Looking at the box you'd almost think the Lotto-game is typically Dutch! I love the game for its graphic design; the cards are always so beautiful.

Love is all at the Butterfly ball

Some of you might know this book, but I had never seen it before. Beautiful, narrative illustrations full of fantasy. While googling I discovered this artiocle on Wikipedia:

The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast is the title of a poem by William Roscoe, written in 1802, and telling the story of a party for insects and other small animals.
Two anonymous sequels were The Peacock 'At Home' and The Lion's Masquerade and the Elephant's Champetre, both credited to "A Lady", and describing similar parties for birds and large mammals.
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is also the title of a 1973 picture book, loosely based on the poem, by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer. This greatly expanded and altered the original work, focusing more on the animals' preparations for the Ball. Aldridge went on to create two more books based on the sequels; The Peacock Party and The Lion's Cavalcade.
An animated short based on Aldridge's illustrations, but once more focusing on the Ball itself, was made in 1974, with Roger Glover writing the accompanying song Love is All, based on the song Love's All You Need mentioned in the book (which may, in turn, have been a reference to The Beatles' All You Need Is Love). This was supposed to lead to a full length animated film, which did not get made. However, Glover had written a full soundtrack, which was released as an album (See Butterfly Ball.)

I didn't know that the video for 'Love is all' was based on this book, it's one of my most favorite videos ever! What a coincidence.
So, without further ado! Roger Glover' Love is all:

wooden learning material

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