Wishing and Hoping and Thinking and Praying

 Ikko Tanaka, 1987

 Kazumasa Nagai, Hiroshima Appeals 1987

Sato Koichi, Hiroshima Appeals 2006

Norito Shinmura for Muji

Katsuhiko Shibuya and Noriyuki Tanaka posters, thanks to Pink tentacle

 Kazumasa Nagai

 Ryohei Kojima

 Shino Arihara

Itakura Tadanori for Osaka Aquarium

D-Net Co., Lepus from the Silent Zoo series for Narita Airport

 Tatsuro Kiuchi

Please visit tatsurokiuchi.com to buy the high resolution images 

of two beautiful artworks and donate the full price to the Red Cross in Japan

Life is Change

I am very happy to be able to feature more elegant creations from one 

of my favorite artists, the lovely and mysterious Kazumasa Nagai.

These images span a period of almost 30 years, from 1969 to 2007.

Many thanks to Vintage Poster, Pink Tentacle and I Desire Vintage Posters.

Sunday Safari - Striking Stripes

Celestino Piatti, cover of ABC der Tiere, 1964

André François, illustration from Roland, 1958, 

thanks to Le figure di libri

Józef Wilkon, cover of Pan Tip-Top

Russian Circus poster, thanks to Ben Perry's 

fantastic USSR posters collection on flickr

Polish matchbox label, thanks to Maraid's 

wonderful matchbox labels collection on flickr

Jacques Hnizdovsky, 1970

Kazumasa Nagai, Save me

Pep Montserrat, La selva del lenguaje

Swiss poster by Polly Bertram and Daniel Volkart, 1990

David Klein, poster Africa-fly TWA, ca.1967

Peter Clark, Stripe dreams collage

Sebastiano Ranchetti, Zebra print

Mario Mariotti

Matazo Kayama, 1954

Paul Le Mécano

Sunday Safari - Mothering

Kazumasa Nagai, 1993

My beloved puppies in 1992: Alice and Michelle holding newborn Julia

Pablo Amargo

Poster by Shino Suefusa

Diana Sudyka

Victor Dubrovsky, Sheep

Brian Wildsmith, illustration from Die Reise nach Bethlehem

Jacques Hnidzovsky, Wolverine, terracotta, 1951

Annegert Fuchshuber, two ilustrations from Zwei und Mehr

Leia Bell, He reminded of my two year old in so many ways

Lisa Congdon, Giraffes

Thanks to art.crazed's great collection of vintage children's books

A very happy day to all mothers and their children!