Performers, Acrobats & Clowns

The last act of this year's Circus festival is an episode from the very charming and funny

2003 tv series Creature Comforts created by Nick Parks at Aardman Animations.

The original concept utilizes bits of interviews with members of the public,

whose voices are then used to animate a long series of animal characters. 

Especially interesting to those of you who can understand English, 

since the best thing about these shorts is the humorous matching 

between the words spoken and the situations portrayed.

Mad Men & Crazy Critters - Piatti und Plakat

1952

From the intricate hairlines of Etsuko Fukaya's etchings

we move to the bold strokes and colors of Celestino Piatti.

These twenty ads spanning twenty-five years 

are just a small selection from the 300 posters 

created by the prolific Swiss illustrator and designer.

1953

1954

1958 (via Quad Royal)

1958

1958 (via Mid-Centuria)

1960 (via Quad Royal)

1961 (thanks to Sandi Vincent)

 1962 

1963

1964

1966 (thanks to Leiris202)

1966

1970

1974

1976

1977

All the images carrying a watermark come from the wonderful

Swiss Poster Collection website

In the Garden of the Mind

I imagine that many of Animalarium's readers are already familiar with the celebrated

 German illustrator Olaf Hajek, but I couldn't resist posting some of his works.

I can't get enough of these luscious paintings, so unique and

full of life, color and artistic inspirations!

Most of these images were created for numerous corporate and editorial clients.

For more info, check out the interesting interview on Sprayblog and the video 

posted by Gestalten, which last year published a monograph on Hajek's work.