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Saturday, June 20th, 2009
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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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I’m currently leafing through all the magazines that we seem to have amassed over the past few months, to see whether there’s anything worth keeping before they go in the bin, and I found this beautiful little illustration by Flemish artist Pieter Van Eenooghe. It was published in Humo a while ago, to go with an article on what famous people read during their holidays.
A few years ago, this type of assignment would doubtlessly have been given to Ever Meulen, but for some reason, Van Eenooghe was given a break here. I like the way he refers to Ever’s style of choice, but not resorts to emulating or copying. It’s good stuff.
And since this picture involves a guy reading, this one goes to my mom.
(illustration © Pieter Van Eenooghe)
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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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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
My mom took a subscription to Humo Magazine, and I got her complementary Ever Meulen Lamp.
Thanks, Mom !
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
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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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
For thirty years now, Ever Meulen has provided the posters and imagery for Humo’s yearly rock concours, the Rock Rally. On the Rock Rally Website this is celebrated with an overview of (tiny) pictures, showing the most memorable of those thirty posters (scroll down on the page for the link). For larger versions, go to Brussels concert venue AB, where a selection of them are on display in the restaurant until march, 23.
For this year’s poster, Ever harkened back to his style of thirty years ago, and more particularly to his “Rocket Boys” illustration, as shown below. The car, by the way, really exists, and can be seen at the Ever retrospective in Leuven.
(artwork © Ever Meulen)
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Over the years, Ever Meulen has done a zillion covers for Humo magazine. Some of them are plainly recognizable, for others you need to know it’s actually him. Here is an example of a hidden Meulen somewhere in the eighties, adding all kinds of details to a picture of television presenter Paul Muys. Including a Tintin quiff.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Last year Belgian media and culture magazine Humo completely overhauled its layout (well, maybe not completely). This involved different, whiter paper, a new, bolder type for titles (by master typographer Gert Dooreman, who previously also did the new typography for the flemish daily De Standaard), and new title illustrations for the features that return in every issue. Ever Meulen, who also did the previous versions, provided new graphics which clearly refer to the old ones but also are quite contemporary in their use of color. Remarkably, Ever’s illustrations for the TTT pages, which cover music, games, the internet and other “youth oriented” stuff, were replaced by new work by Jeroom.
(click on for more – all illustrations © Ever Meulen)
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
This is a nice illustration by Ever Meulen from Humo’s 2007 books special. The topic of that issue was writers and their fears and phobias. I particularly like the atypical use of washed colors on this piece.
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
This week’s Humo features a cover by Jeroom combines references to articles on near-death experiences and on the attitudes of Belgians towards money. It’s not a subtle cartoon (after all, this is Jeroom), but it’s a good one nevertheless.
Not so according to Disney’s local legal eagles. They are investigating if and how they can take action against this cover, which “goes to far”, according to spokesman Gil van Laer (in De Morgen).
(just to be on the safe side : cartoon © 2008, Jeroom; Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Eyore and Piglet, their likenesses and representation © Disney)
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