Sunday Safari - All the Pretty Horses

Romuald Socha, 1974

Waldemar Swierzy, 1969

Eileen Mayo, The children's circus book, thanks to The Visual Telling of Stories 

Witold Janowski

Erté

Brian Wildsmith, illustration from Circus, thanks to Tiny Tim

Art Seiden, Circus Animals, 1958

Vladimir Lebedev

Celestino Piatti, The Nok family circus, thanks to Vintage kids' Books My Kid Loves

Kira Kotliar

Otto Dix, Kinderalbum

Tadeusz Jodlowski

Marek Mosinski, 1968

Jan Mloddozeniec 

Herbert Leupin

Lesley Barnes


Merry Christmas Everyone!

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

Sunday Safari - Book Party!

 Jean Michel-Folon, Kafka's Metamorphosis

thanks to 50 Watts

Wednesday we're off to Bologna... to welcome this exciting 

annual event once again we have organized a reading

party with a group of fellow book-lovers

 Atsushi Hara, Tree

 Anne Crausaz

 Lilo Fromm, 1983 poster, thanks to sugarwheel fl

 Art Spiegelman

Bolin, Easter shoes ad detail, 1946

 Beatrix Potter, The bespectacled mouse, 1890

thanks again to Weimar Art!

 Andrea Rivola, Topo di biblioteca

 Etienne Delessert

 Felix Lorioux's, illustration from Fables De La Fontaine,

thanks a fabulous post at Hollywood Animation Archive

 Savignac

 Celestino Piatti, poster for Swiss League,

thanks to sugarville

Yusuke Yonezu

Sunday Safari - Goodbye Tiger

1960's wooden Tiger wall plaque, originally from a French Circus, at Fears and Kahn

We are approaching the end of The Year of the Tiger 

and I wanted to salute these majestic, wonderful creatures 

who unfortunately are constantly under threat of extinction.

Long live the Tiger!

André Hellé, Grosses bêtes and petites bêtes, 1912,

thanks to the always wonderful A Journey Round My Skull

  Sergio Ruffolo, Tigre homemade greeting card

 Meg Hunt for the Cloudy Collection

Celestino Piatti, illustration for Der goldene Apfel: Eine Geschichte, 1970

found thanks to a lovely post about tigers on Booktryst

Cathie Bleck, Tiger

 Ian McArthur, Tiger

Jan Młodożeniec, Tygrysek, 1961 

Sebastiano Ranchetti, Little Tiger

 Atsushi Hara

Dale Maxey, illustration from The Wild and woolly animal book, 1966,  

thanks to Bonito Club

 Pierre Bevès, Le tigre en bois, 1961, thanks to maptitefabrique

Antonio Ligabue, Tigre con ragno, 1953

 Józef Wilkon, Ksiega Dzungli (the Jungle book)