Totally cute...

... this vintage block puzzle! And in great condition too. Found this one last weekend.

doodles, lots of doodles

Please click to enlarge!

For some cooling off - Winterbook

As a kid I used to love these seasonal books. Especially in the summer, I bought a lot of them to read during the holidays.

Encyclopedic (world) maps

For all of you who need some holiday inspiration!

Colourstudies II

On this hot sunny day I can only think in colours. Anything else is too exhausting!

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!

Jeu de l'oie

I love the illustration on the box

Sleeping beauty by Nadine Sterk

What a great concept this lamp by Nadine Sterk is! A growing lampshade:

Where there is light, there is life. When you switch on this lamp, it provides you with light. And in return you provide it with
the generating power it needs to grow. This lamp contains all the essential 'mechanisms' that will enable it to develop. All it needs is energy and it starts creating its own lampshade. It knits it slowly around the lamp, pausing only when the light is off. Its growth places it beyond the bare utilitarian necessity of artificial light. The lamp becomes an animate part of space, an existence in its own right.

Texilemuseum part two

Samira Boon


Wieki Somers



Mariette Wolbert
Peter Struyken

Petra Vonk

Arjan van Arendonk

Another post about the Texilemuseum. A few great examples which are on show in the textile lab. I don't know all the names of the artists, but I wrote down a few.