Time to Fly

Otto Nielsen was a Danish painter and watercolorist who worked as an illustrator for books, magazines and posters.

From 1954 to 1976 he also produced a series of beautiful travel posters and calendars for Scandinavian Airlines System,

a company founded in 1946 with the merge of four Scandinavian companies from Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 

Its first destination was New York, then Bangkok and Buenos Aires, and in 1954 
SAS became the first airline to operate a trans-polar route. 

Sunday Safari - Return of the Buffalo

Lisa Congdon

 Heimir Björgúlfsson

Craig Cosak

Corinne Reid, Wounded knee

Sandra Dieckmann

Becca Stadtlander

Mark Weaver

Feodor Rojankovsky

Meg Hunt

Amy Ruppel

Leandro Castelao

Stephen Alcorn

Suzanne Proulx

Philippe Baudelocque

Coloring with Andy

Before becoming a Pop Art icon, during the 1950s Andy Warhol worked as a successful illustrator

in New York producing hundreds of drawings for advertising, record companies and fashion magazines. 

In 1961, right around the time of his first Campbell Soup paintings, the Edelman company commissioned 

Warhol to create a large format coloring book to give as a gift to its clients' children for Christmas. 

Andy drew a series of delightfully whimsical illustrations using his typical blotted line technique, 

which he claimed to have discovered accidentally when he spilled ink onto a sheet of paper 

and reproduced the stain motif by applying a second sheet onto it.

A Coloring Book was reprinted in 2007 by the French Editions Palette.

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.

Beastly Bjork – Wanderlust

I've decided to start posting some favorite videos from one of my favorite artists.

A Bjork a day keeps the boredom away!