Cocorico and Kikeriki

Graphis 28, Special Swiss issue, cover by Hans Hartmann, 1949

As it often happens, a series of serendipitous coincidences has led me

to discover this lovely addendum to Sunday's Roosterfest.

It seems that the fantastic Graphis magazine had a thing for roosters too...

Graphis 28, cover by Joseph Binder, 1950

Graphis 56, cover by Picasso, 1954

Graphis 72, cover by Celestino Piatti, 1957

Graphis 97, cover by Hoot von Zitzewitz, 1961

Graphis 110, cover by Walter Greider, 1963

You can buy the PDFs of these beauties and other past issues at the Graphis website, 

or go for the originals at the fantastic Modernism 101 bookstore on ebay. This shop is 

a real collector's heaven and it makes me wish I had a lot more money in my pockets...

Monday Matticchio

Sunday Safari - Chicchirichì and Cock-a-doodle-do

They are loud, brave and proud, with feathers bright and ready to fight...

Vyaceslav Legkobit, Hto shto malyuє. Kto chto risuet, 1968,

thanks to another great post from Kickcan and Conkers

poster by Waldemar Swierzy for Cepelia, Polish arts and crafts stores, 1999

Coq by Roger Excoffon, 1963

illustration for Dummy magazine by Herr Mueller

Stig Lindberg's ABC, thanks to Fine little day

Rooster candle holder by Lotta Galve and Bengt Lindberg, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Ano del Gallo poster by Naranjo Brand Design, 2005

illustration by John Alcorn from The Fireside Book of Children's Songs, 1966

Rooster, limited edition sculpture by Eric Carle

Gallo e cesta, Michele Ranchetti, 1960

Gallo by Sebastiano Ranchetti, 2006

Mad Men and Crazy Critters, 3rd episode – La Révolution Savignac

The Poster bears the same relation to the fine arts as freestyle wrestling does to good manners.  

Savignac

Most of Animalarium's visitors are likely already familiar with Raymond Savignac (1907-2002), 

one of the most celebrated French poster artists of the past century. He is also one of my favorites, 

thanks to the graceful spontaneity, cleverness and gentle humor of his works. Savignac left school 

at 15 and went to work as a draftsman and commercial artist. He started designing posters in 1935 

under the direction of the great Cassandre, and in the next ten years developed his own unique style. 

Fame arrived in 1949, thanks to Savignac's collaboration and exposition with Bernard Villemot, 

and to his famous design for Monsavon milk soap.

Cinzano and Quinzaine de la laine, 1951.

Sommeil = Equilibre and DOP journées des enfants propres, 1953.

Savignac viewed commercial art as "optimism at its most absurd", and "the creation of a fleeting image 

which people will not forget". He was very successful at putting these ideas into practice, and his 

trademark style based on bold, surprising, happy and colorful illustrations was much appreciated. 

During his long and prolific career, he designed over six hundred advertising posters for companies 

like Air France, Olivetti, Piaggio, Renault and Perrier.

Tricotez Pingouin, 1958, and Renault 4CV, 4 places, 1959.

Tintin Orange, 1962, and Omo enrichi, 1963.

Savignac spent the last 23 years of his life in Trouville, a small resort town on the coast of Normandy, 

and created numerous posters for local events. These late works are still as fresh, bright and cheerful as ever,

 showing no sign that he was in his eighties and saw himself as "an old brontosaurus who does a job that 

no longer exists for a species that's well on its way to extintion" (from an interview with Le Monde, 1986).

La Fête, 1977, Galerie Delorme, 1990, and Championnats d'orthographe, 1992.

Today Trouville displays his works in the Montebello Museum, on a beachfront walk dedicated to him, 

and on wall murals around town. The ever ironic Savignac had called the art world's celebration 

of his commercial work "nonsensical", and told Le Monde that he would have never created 

advertising posters, had he known that people would regard them as high art. 

The illustrated book Savignac s'affiche was published in France in 2008.

Nurtured by Music

Monday Matticchio – Nurtured by Nature

Sunday Safari – Nurtured by the forest

For the past week, leaves have been falling all around us. 

Under the trees, the ground has turned into a crunchy luscious multicolored carpet. 

 Today we made a big fire of yellow, orange and rust colored leaves.

Bird and Fish by Yalos Alanya, thanks to Hautenature

Sea fishes are nurtured by the forest and Be a Happy Camper, ads by Norito Shinmura

illustrations for La Casa Roja by Violeta Lópiz

illustration made of blossoms, leaves, roots and twigs by Herr Mueller

cover for the Italian edition of Bestioles by Jephan de Villiers

The Swell Season poster by Doublenaut, thanks once again to Grain Edit

Bird Roots by Claire Scully at the quiet revolution

Hójaros by Javier Jaén

Regal Buck and Snake in the Grass by Hanna Stouffer