Miha Gasper

Vintage calendars are back!
While more and more people can't imagine their lives without electronic devices like smartphones or smartwatches with so handy apps with so many useful options for organizing our days, a certain percent of mankind still prefer classic calendars with five or six rows and seven columns. Even more - there are many who find old calendars so visually appealing the insist to hang them on the walls even if they don't intend to use them as planners/organizers. So-called vi...

This fairy tale is a bit different than most classic stories for kids. It has animals in the main roles and all the people in the story are presented in bad light. Of course, we need to understand the narrative approach - animals are just examples of individuals who have lost their positions in society and are trying to find a new meaning in the slowly but surely approaching ends of their lives.

Printable Advent Calendar with 24 vintage illustrations by old masters - why not spend the Advent evenings at storytelling?

Aesop's Fables was one of the first projects signed by Charles Robinson. He was still a young inspiring artist when he got a chance to illustrate legendary fables by Aesop. These were all black-and-white drawings in his still-evolving yet already recognizable style.
Numerous fables with clear morals were published in 1895, a year before Robinson's take on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verse which secured him commissions for many years to come. Drawings from Aesop's Fables were ...

Is Red Riding Hood just a girl from the fairy tale or she actually represents the Sun (being eaten by wolf every night)? Enjoy the symbolism of the classic fairy tale!

Free printable calendar for november with vintage illustration.

Wolf and Seven Kids by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm is probably the best example of their belief that fairy tales essentially come from old myths which are common to all people or at least to people with the same cultural / ethnical / national heritage. Paula Ebner made five beautiful illustrations for this classi story.

Green color is coming in hundreds of shades. But even green without numerous subtones carry many different meanings. This InfoGraphic is a chance to explore some of them - positive and negative.

Jack trades a cow for a few magical beans. So he is told, at least. His mother is mad at him but from beans a large tree grows and opens a whole new world of opportunities to Jack. Yet, to succeed, he has to face a giant!

Puss in Boots is a story about climbing up the social ladder. This is done by pretending, stealing, threatening, and murdering. Edgar Behme tried (and failed) to make this classic fairy tale more politically correct. With amazing pictures by Carl Offterdinger (done for the classic version but used in different order).

Vintage Halloween postcards by Frances Brundage were popular for decades until the whole business started stagnating roughly after the WW2. Yet, some artists and some themes are still in demand because they are highly collectible. Frances Brundage's Halloween cards are the best of both worlds.

Evelyn Stuart Hardy (1866-1935)
Born as Beatrice Evelyn Stuart Hardy and almost always signed as E. S. Hardy, this British artist illustrated dozens of books for children, including the most popular nursery rhymes (Mother Goose and what happened next, in this case in collaboration with Reginald Birch) and fairy tales (including by brothers Grimm and H. C. Andersen), but her major artistic contribution were more than thousand biblical pictures ...

Frederick Colin Tilney was a very versatile artist who edited, translated, adapted and illustrated this classic work by Jean de La Fontaine. All color pictures and bw drawings are presented.