Hunting season is open

be ware hunters…

Hey where are we going?

Déjeuner sur l’herbe bruxellois

An attempt to visualize ABs Marc Decock brilliant affiche idea…

holiday in the UK

Karli Kaninchen und die flotte karotte

Which means of course… “Little Rabbit and the magic carrot’, no not completely… it really translates as ‘Karl Rabbit and the quick carrot’, German edition by G&G verlag;
and also ‘Ti Lapin et la carotte magique’, aussi en francais mais oui!

It’s a jungle out there!

From a tree to a piece of paper

Ever wondered how paper is made from trees? Here’s the answer…

Just click on the little image below to see it all in detail!

You are here…

You’ll never get lost at the Bellewaerde attraction park (www.bellewaerde.be). Took me some visits at Bellewaerde, hundreds of pictures and a deep dive into the architects plans of Bellewaerde. Made for the friendly people at Tagora (www.tagora.be), and for the visitors of Bellewaerde of course!

Click on the little plan beneath for a closer look!

Books & books

Carnival…

Witchcraft…

& pinguins

Boterkrant…

Sandwichpaper? Butterhammengazette? Journal pistolé? olè!

Let’s have a picknick!

Boterhammenfestival is now happening! Center of Brussels, see you there!
Above campaign video from the ab-site, below some pics of previous years.

Seven illuminated differences…

A questionnaire cartoon for Luminus. Can you spot the 7 differences?

Snowman is cool!

This series of 3 children’s books were published by Abimo editors (Belgium). They follow the adventures of a funny snowman and his great bunch of animal friends. Published originally in dutch, now also foreign rights sold to South-Korea, China & Taiwan & Shanghai (comes with a CD for each book)!

Red devils!

In hard times you know your friends… Nowadays the Belgian National Football Team is fare away from their once sportive heights, so maybey this little neat mascotte could give them a bit of support!

Little Rabbit discovers the world

The ‘Little Rabbit’ childrens books are fun! Illustrated by Heidi D’hamers, written & sketched by Heidi & Gunter, which means: all the sweat and hard magnificent illustration work was done by Heidi, while I was happily tip-toeing through the tulips. Now already being published in Belgium & The Netherlands, France, Austria & Germany, Servia, China & Taiwan, South-Korea, Japan… and even available in a bookstore close to you!

Max de muis!

Here it is: “Max de muis ontdekt de Stad” (”Max the mouse discovers the City”). A children’s book made for Technopolis (www.technopolis.be) in cooperation with ‘uitgeverij De Standaard’. Text written by Annemie Bosmans, illustrations and graphic design by Gunter & Heidi. A really beautifully printed book, with fold-out pages, additional cards and a ‘look-for-the-thief’ game. You can just have fun reading the book; but you can also visit, play & experiment in the accompanying expo at technopolis (www.technopolis.be/kinderdoecentrum).

Boterhammen!

Sneak preview of the poster for the upcoming annual free ‘Boterhammen in het Park’-music festival by the Ancienne Belgique (’www.abconcerts.be’). Since the start of the festival Eek the squirrel has been the eye-catcher of all the ‘Boterham’-posters and publications. The 2007 poster and illustrations where the result of a gloomy sunday afternoon brainstorm with AB’s MarcDC and is kind of an hommage to the eighties ‘Frank Margerin’ comics. Visit the free Boterhammen-festival in Brussels Warandepark 27 till 31 of august, 2007. more info on ‘www.boterhammenindestad.be’.

Fun with the Residents

In 2004 I was able to contribute to the ‘Residents Commercial DVD’-project. An update of their legendary cult album ‘the commercial album’, which included 40 one-minute songs. The album was kind of a reaction against the stupidity of pop-music (the repetition of ‘verse-chorus-verse’ being reducted to a one-minute piece that could be multiplied by the listener in order to achieve the standard 3 minute song) and the way music was being sold as a ‘product’: ‘the residents’ bought 1 minute publicity slots on the radio and so ’sold’ their ‘product’ to the public. Fun! While making the animation video for the song I was handed (”My work is so behind”) I imagined reacting in it the same way. I decided to make something completely unexpected for the Residents (who have kind of spooky visuals) and so came up with this ‘childish’ looking animation, including chickens, pinguins and so on. Very un-Residents…, I even expected them to drop the video from the DVD, but they didn’t… The best reaction from a customer being “This video is a joke, isn’t it? I hated it in first, but now.. ven like it!”.
More about this famous anonymous band: www.residents.com

Hey mister Postman!

An educational book from The Belgian Post to inform the be kids about the weeling and deeling of letters, post-packages, postman & woman, mail-delivery.

Big book

‘Le Matin’ gives us the 100 beautiful portraits of women in the morning, by Belgian top-photographer Henk Van Cauwenbergh. A magnificent edition by Tectum Publishers (www.tectum.be), 340 x 480mm hard-cover with slipcase. A unique book with mixes color and black & white pictures, international top models and anonymous people. Graphic design by Gunter, cover calligraphy by Sandra Schrevens & Gunter.

Presents, ow we like presents, don’t we…

Illustration made for a new magazine. Seems they didn’t publish it… and the magazine seized to exist…
‘It wasn’t me!’ (famous quote by B. Simpson)

The Eek-files…

Web movies created for the Ancienne Belgique (website and local television). A little movies intended to attract the attention to the artists playing the day the movie was showed. The first movie shows ‘Eek’ the squirrel as a sandwich-man showing up in differnet parts of Brussels, the second movie shows ‘Eek’ running from his home in the city park (where the festival used to be held) to the ‘Place d’Espagne’ in the heart of Brussels (where the festival was held that year).

Party

The Belgian Red cross asked me to draw their new years-greeting card, with this funny result…

Fun with the mailman

This childrens book, made for the Belgian Post, was sent as a present from ‘Saint-Nicolas’ (aka the original ‘Santa Claus’) to all children who sent a letter to ‘the holy Saint’. It tells of the travel a letter makes from the sender to the recepient, and contains additionale games, postcards etc.

A piece of Belgium

“We only want peace, peace! A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France…” and here we have a little piece of Belgium.
Altough the former quote was not really politically correct (*), this illustration certainly is. Used in the 2006 ‘Sp.a’ - election campaign.
(*) Mel Brooks playing A. Hitler in ‘To be or not to be’

Click on the little plan below for a close-up!

The man with the cats… & co

Above, two never published illustrations for childrens books, below lots of covers for “Abimo” uitgeverij (www.abimo-uitgeverij.com).

X-dog

Not something I found underneath an old closet, but an entry for an exhibition that never took place. Participants had to ‘make something’ based on an alphabet-letter. I was given the exciting X, and came up with the adventures of “X-dog”, a superhero dog who thinks he has got super-powers, but unfortunately hasn’t… Presented as something that had been made a century ago.