Sunday Safari - Puffin Island

Tom Eckersley

Woop Studios

Claude Kuhn

Kay Bojesen, 1954

Charley Harper

Patricia Drew, Spotter Puff, 1976, thanks to Hazel Terry

Abigail Brown

Sebastiano Ranchetti

Studio Tuesday, Puffin colony and Puffin at sea

Beethings

Geoff Waring

Jonathan Woodward

Sunday Safari - Le Farfalle

Marie-Blanche-Hennelle Fournier, photocollage page from The Madame B Album, 1870s

This morning by the river Arno I saw the season's first butterfly: 

small and pale yellow, visiting the hidden pleasures of a bright yellow flower.

Such a delightful and comforting encounter!

Poster for the Naturhistorisches Museum Bern by Claude Kuhn, 1990

Illustration by Daniel Chang

Butterfly print by E.A. Séguy, 1920s, thanks to Bibliodissey

Metamorphosis by Kayama Matazo, 1979

Poster by Augusto Giacometti, 1928

Paolo Garretto, cover of the Italian magazine Natura, 1932,

thanks to the ever surprising A Journey Round My Skull

Eiffel Tower by Peter Blake

poster by Lora Lamm for the Italian department store La Rinascente, 1960s,

thanks to vintage graphic design heaven thisisdisplay.org

Illustration from Grandmother Lucy goes for a picnic by Frank Francis, 1970,

thanks to flamenconut's Tasty Morsels

Illustration from Attic of the wind by Ati Forberg, 1966,

thanks to letslookupandsmile's Children's book illustration set

Borboleta by mariacininha

Papilonidae by Delphine Lebourgeois

Wild in Bern

Claude Kuhn (b. 1948) is a Swiss graphic designer and poster artist who lives in the lovely city of Bern,

 where he is the art director and exhibition designer of the local Museum of Natural History.

He also works freelance, and often expresses his love of animals in the designs he creates for other clients.

 I am personally very fond of Kuhn's clever, humorous concepts and modernist approach. I also love

 his use of bright colors, essential vectorial silhouettes and elegant compositions. Very Swiss!

In the past twenty years, Kuhn has created a series of beautiful and innovative

boxing posters, thanks to which he has received the Swiss Sports Award in 1992.

The one above was created for a boxing day on Easter Monday 1998.

Circus Knie, 1996

Biss + Kuss, Bern Kunsthalle, 1982, Stadt Theater Bern, season 98/99

Political elections, 2000

Series for Tierpark Dählhölzli, animal park near Bern, 1987-88

Inauguration of the new seal pool at Tierpark Dählhölzli, 2005

Series for Bern's Naturhistorisches Museum, 1985-2007

Cormorant and fish, Naturhistorisches Museum, 1993

Die Hauskatze, Naturhistorisches Museum, 1994

Museumsnacht, Bern, 2003

Kuhn's posters have won many awards in international competitions are featured in the books

Claude Kuhn Natur-Kunde (1999) and Plakate Claude Kuhn – Stephan Bundi (2001), 

published in occasion of two personal exhibitions at the Deutsches Plakat Museum 

(German poster museum) in Essen and the Kornhausforum in Bern.