Seasons of the Bear

Noriko Senshu, Midsummer bear

Sarah Maycock

Gerry Turley

Yevgeny Charushin

Annegert Fuchshuber, Zwei und mehr

G. Nicholas, Year in the woods, 1984, thanks to polny_shkaf

Rob Dunlavey, Bonne Nuit Petit Ours

Janusz Grabianski, 1961, thanks to Manon Gauthier

 Rumen Skorchev, Bulgarian Folk Tales, 1979, thanks to Book Graphics

Nicola Bayley

Anna Emilia Laitinen, Winter Is Ending

Sue Tirrell

Gianluca Folì

 Arnold Lobel, Red Fox and his Canoe, 1964, and Brian Wildsmith, The Lazy Bear, 1974,

thanks to my vintage book collection in book form

Lizzy Stewart

Sandra Dieckmann

Nature Girls

Camilla Engman

Happy Women's Day, Girls and Ladies!

Colette Calascione

Bélen Segarra

Daniela Tieni

Catrin Arno

Sandra Dieckmann

Eveline Tarunadjaja

Sandrine Revel

Amy Crehore

Kathleen Lolley

 Nathalie Choux

Christina Bothwell

two papercuts by Elsa Mora

Kelly Louise Judd

Kelly Louise Judd

Leo and Diane Dillon

Kiki Smith

Smiles and Tiles

Kenneth Townsend (1931-99) was a British artist and freelance designer 

based in Hastings. His humorous pictures were utilized by various companies

 to decorate pottery, textiles, children's games, and glass trays.

He also illustrated six books, one of which,the 1968 children's book 

Felix the bald-headed lion, was written by him.

The animals on the tiles of the "Menagerie" series are among Townsend's 

most famous designs. There are around 25 different tile designs,

including the ones shown in this gallery.

The games designed by Townsend look delightful, too...

Marble Fun, a scoring game by Merit

Tiles from Remember, Remember, a memory game by Galt Toys.

As you can see, some of them are very similar to the ceramic tile designs.

Townsend's work is still popular and loved by many, especially in Britain. 

Thanks to Hazel Terry for the discovery, and to the members of the flickr group 

"Lovers of Kenneth Townsend's work" for uploading a majority of the images in this post.