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A Thrilling Summer

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Zomer van het spannende boek (c) Ever Meulen

The Summer Of The Gripping Book (to literally translate its official title) is a yearly event organised by book promotion agency boek.be, together with media magazine Humo and bookstore chain Standaard Boekhandel to promote reading (and, naturally, buying books) during the summer months.

Ever Meulen has always created an identity illustration for the event, and did so again this year.  It must be the first Ever shark I’ve ever seen.

(illustration © Ever Meulen)

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Happy New Year

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

2008 by Ever Meulen

Ever Meulen provided this year’s topical Christmas front page for the Belgian daily De Standaard, but even though there’s a manger in the centre of the picture, 2009 comes creeping in in the bottom right corner, and so I thought it was quite appropriate to make this my first post of the new year (which, incidentally is the Ephemerist’s third in this format !)

In the special review edition of Knack Magazine, Kim Duchateau took a more topical approach (below).  You’ll doubtlessly recognize John McCain and Barrack Obama, Amy Winehouse having a fit, pirates on the african coast, and the Chinese Olympics, but there’s also a lot of local news, such as almost all our top athletes quitting, our banks imploding, a year without any government to speakof and a lot  more.

2008 by Kim Duchateau

(artwork © Ever Meulen and Kim Duchateau, respectively)

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Christmas !

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Judith Vanistendael

What better way to celebrate Christmas than with a couple of illustrations by two of my favourite Belgian artists ?  

The lovely picture above by Judith Vanistendael was lifted from her version of the Christmas Story (which she wrote together with her father, flemish poet Geert Van Istendael), in the De Morgen newspaper.  

Below is a swanky illustration by Ever Meulen for the yearly subscription drive by the topical weekly Humo.

Ever Meulen

(Artwork © Judith Vanistendael and Ever Meulen, respectively)

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Ever Ware

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

It’s not exactly the right time to go on a diet if you live around the Belgian city of Leuven.  Twelve restaurants have launched the second edition of LeuvenKookKunst.be.

From November 20 until May 20 (which, as it happens, is yours truly’s birthday) they invite you to come and enjoy a specially created culinary menu, finishing off, as is custom, with a nice cup of coffee.  Afterwards you are free to take home your Royal Boch cup and saucer, which were exclusively designed for this event by Flemish illustrator and designer Ever Meulen.

Ever created a total of six cups, each with their matching saucer, which are only available via the participating restaurants.  You’ll have to make the rounds if you want to complete your collection.  Like I said, it’s not the best time to try and lose some weight…

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Pop Poll

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

I posted a Humo cover before, which featured a take on Ever Meulen’s design for the Pop Poll Medal.  So I thought it would only be fitting to also show you the real deal.

This is the desig for the medal that is awarded by Flemish media magazine Humo to the winners in different categories of a popularity poll that it organizes every year amongst its readers.  Needless to say, it’s very coveted…

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M&L With Ever

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

M&L used to be the bimonthly magazine if the Flemish official agency for “Monuments and landscapes” (now the agency for the protection of our immobile heritage). For a government publication, it was a quite glossy production, with lots of top-rate photography and every so often a beautiful cover illustration by an important Flemish illustrator.

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Ever Humo mastheads follow-up

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Fellow Ever Meulen fan Stijn Dams points out that the new masthead for the letters column that Ever created for the new Humo Design, was quite flawed, as the illustration was positioned in front of the title.  Since then, Humo has been using a revised version for a while, with a newly alineated title (as shown above).  So, that’s settled.

Just for completeness’ sake, here’s the original version.

Thanks for the tip (and the scan), Stijn !

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Ever Lamp

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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My mom took a subscription to Humo Magazine, and I got her complementary Ever Meulen Lamp.

Thanks, Mom !

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Colleagues salute Ever

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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As an appendix to yesterday’s post, I’ve selected a few (admittedly, very bad) pictures of doodles by Art Spiegelman and Charles Burns, from letters they sent to Ever Meulen. They were on display at the Meulen exhibition in Leuven, and I thought it rather nice to share them.

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Ever Meulen art

Friday, March 14th, 2008

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Last week I visited the Ever Meulen exhibition again, this time with my mom (who got me hooked on Meulen in the first place). And this time I took some pictures. They’re not that good, as I used a cameraphone and all artwork was behind quite reflective glass. So you’ll see me lurking here and there. We started off, by the way, with a quite nice self-portrait à la Française from 1999.

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