Babynews!

And there she was.. our baby girl Sofie. Born on the 26th of October. She is a healthy and happy little girl and she makes her two big brothers very proud. We feel so blessed to be their parents!

En daar was ze dan... onze dochter Sofie. Geboren op 26 oktober. Ze is een gezond en tevreden klein meisje en heeft haar 2 grote broers heel trots gemaakt. We voelen ons rijk gezegend met ons gezin!

Our blankets in ZonderMeer Magazine

Our organic blankets are featured in the Kids Shopping section of Dutch ZonderMeer Magazine!
It's a new beautiful and glossy like magazine for people with a food challenge. But really it's inspiring for everybody who is interested in food and a healthy lifestyle.

So why are our blankets featured there? Because unfortunately there are many children who suffer from eczema due to a food intolerance or allergy. Our organic cotton bedding is a safe and very comfortable choice for them. Actually, that's exactly why we designed the collection, because our eldest son had lactose intolerance as a baby and developed quite a bad eczema. We love how the founders of ZonderMeer Magazine are turning their challenges into a positive experience too and found our products in the process!

playgarden - an illustrated map

We are lucky to have what they call here a "nature play garden" in our village. It's a wonderful place for children and their parents to hang out. It is a playground designed to encourage play with water, mud, sand, trees, find little creatures as frogs, butterflies and build rafts, dams or tree houses. And this summer they opened an apiary, which not only provides shelter to honeybees, but also functions as a bee education center for children to find out why bees are so important.

One of the founders flew over the playground with his hang glider and took pictures. We designed an illustrated map from them. We hope it will help the kids explore the playground and have lot's of exciting adventures.

You can find more info here: Het Weitje (Dutch).
If you live nearby: it's open in the autumn holiday and this Saturday the 13th of October there will be a nice autumn party. You are welcome to join, entrance is free, as always.

Cool project: branding for webshop

Got to do a really cool branding design for a webshop. Perfect enthusiastic client, lot's of freedom and an inspiring assignment. What more can we wish for :-)

Client: Ansje: a webshop with handmade baby and kids lifestyle products. 

Objective:

Design a visual identity.

Style: cheerful colors, and important words are "handmade, personal, original and passion for working with fabrics".

We chose to design a character logo for the owner, to express the personal approach.
For the header of the webshop we designed a fabric pattern that underlines the important role for fabrics and handcraft.

Logo:

Business card front:

Business card back:

Fabric label:

 Webshop header:

Design Webshop (Luondo)

Roparun Team Steamwork

This weekend 325 teams worked hard to raise money and awareness for cancer, by joining the Roparun, a relay race from Paris or Hamburg to Rotterdam.
We designed and sponsored the logo and a character for team 293: Steamwork:

They named it Steampy and took it everywhere they went :-)

We congratulate all the dedicated Roparun participants with their achievement, they worked hard in the past warm days. Well done!

Day care center logo

We've been designing logo's for day care centers. 

We would love to know which one you like and why!

Blink is Dutch for 'shine'

Stek is Dutch for plant cutting

It also means a place to live / hang out.

Kokon is Dutch for Cocoon 

(but spelled phonetically)

Vintage book find - Silhouettes by Reyer Stolk

'Dierenprentenboek Silhouetten' by Reyer Stolk, 1945

We recently visited the wonderful little city Bredevoort. It's called "Books City" and that makes sense: vintage book stores on every corner! We were very excited to find this inspiring animal picture book by Dutch artist Reyer Stolk (1896-1945).
Don't you just love the typography?! Here's two of the double paged illustrations: animal silhouettes on the right and their names on the left (genius). Enjoy!