Boterhammen birthday!

Some people say they see a resemblance with that great painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, well now… what do you think:)

Easter eggs with Max & Marie

Max & Marie are characters created for the Delhaize group magazine. They have their own 4 page ‘play and recipe’ kids-section. Max & Marie have recently been joined by Lou the rabbit. Lou is the bunny-rabbit of the ‘easter egg action in all Delhaize shops.

FSC is good for you!

“Products carrying the FSC label are independently certified to assure consumers that they come from forests that are managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of present and future generations.” So I advice: for all your printing jobs: go FSC! (more info on www.fair-timber.be & www.fsc.org)

2009!

Diamonds

This new book from Tectum Publishers tells the story of the diamond, from raw stone to jewel, in an extremely attractive way. We see artistic images of barren mining districts at the North Pole, in the jungle and on tropical coastlines. Alongside hundreds of photos of the most beautiful diamonds and jewellery, this book also reveals the variety of people and cultures that are active in the diamond business: the African mine workers, the Chinese diamond cutters in the factory, the international buyers at the diamond exchanges…
Ths book will be available in a regular edition with a slipcase as well as in a luxury edtion.

Text by Christine Gordon, photography by: Donald Woodrow (additional photography by Laurent Boeki and other sources).

Lots of books

You can find more info on thes ebooks on www.tectum.be.

Lou & Lena

Plan (Belgium), an international developing organisation aimed at children, which works in 66 countries, asked me to create a new character/mascotte for a new educational program. This turned into the birth of ‘Lou & Lena’, whom now figure as the leading characters in 2 childrens books, 2 travel books and 2 ‘world’ papers.
The books topics are ‘Children’s rights’ and ‘Children in Vietnam’.
These books are AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE for the Belgian schools, in a french and dutch version; as well as supporting books for the teachers.

Text by Anne Furnémont and An Van den Bergh, coordination by My Pham. DTP for these books was a collaboration with Outline Graphics.

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!

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)