Erik Kessels
At first Kessels seems to be in to his Swiss style, helvetica stuff, but he's a bit of a fine artist as well - filling rooms with millions of photographs.
I am more interested in the social side of 'why rain is good'- how it makes people feel and act, which is generally negative and annoyed, so my posters try to flip this on its head by trying to find the fun in the rain, which might not be up Kessels street, but who knows.
Fun Rainy Activities
Rain Artistry: Take a paper plate and sprinkle a few drops of different colors of food coloring on it. Then get into your rain gear and wander around the yard. As the rain hits the plate, swirls of color form. Just like a snowflake, no two plates will ever be the same.
Chalk Painting: Do your kids like drawing on the driveway or sidewalks with chalk? They'll love doing it in the rain too! Drawing on wet cement turns the chalk into a more paint-like form. And if the area they are drawing on is sloped, you get the added fun of watching a rainbow of colors flow off downhill.
Rain Showering: Next time your kids complain about bathtime, have them put on their bathing suits and give them a bit of shampoo. The novelty of taking a shower in the rain is sure to make smiles appear.
Puddle Walk: See who can make it all the way around the house (or the yard) in the least amount of time. But you can only move by jumping from puddle to puddle. If there isn't a puddle in the direction you want to go, you can either wait or choose another route. And of course, if you jump in the puddles hard enough, you may wash them out so the person behind you can't use them!
Rainbow Bubbles: Put a few drops of food dye into different puddles, then add a squirt or two of dish soap. Give your kids a straw or long hollow tube to blow through and watch the bubbles explode up from the puddles.
Count the Frogs: Go someplace that has a pond or stream, then have your kids see how many frogs they can find. You can also catch tadpoles and raise them, see if your kids can figure out what kind of frog they will become by what the tadpole looks like.
Chalk Painting: Do your kids like drawing on the driveway or sidewalks with chalk? They'll love doing it in the rain too! Drawing on wet cement turns the chalk into a more paint-like form. And if the area they are drawing on is sloped, you get the added fun of watching a rainbow of colors flow off downhill.
Rain Showering: Next time your kids complain about bathtime, have them put on their bathing suits and give them a bit of shampoo. The novelty of taking a shower in the rain is sure to make smiles appear.
Puddle Walk: See who can make it all the way around the house (or the yard) in the least amount of time. But you can only move by jumping from puddle to puddle. If there isn't a puddle in the direction you want to go, you can either wait or choose another route. And of course, if you jump in the puddles hard enough, you may wash them out so the person behind you can't use them!
Rainbow Bubbles: Put a few drops of food dye into different puddles, then add a squirt or two of dish soap. Give your kids a straw or long hollow tube to blow through and watch the bubbles explode up from the puddles.
Count the Frogs: Go someplace that has a pond or stream, then have your kids see how many frogs they can find. You can also catch tadpoles and raise them, see if your kids can figure out what kind of frog they will become by what the tadpole looks like.
Good Quotes:
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
Frederick The Great
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood
Frederick The Great
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood
I like rain, actually.
Bill Rodgers
Bill Rodgers
I'm not a big fan of Swiss Style graphic Design (mainly because I'm not very good at doing it), but I do like this kind of thing:
this kind of work sort of borders graphic design and illustration, but it's stripping an image down to a simpler form which is the same idea of modernism and swiss style. its like 'graphic illustration' clean and interesting.:
Tad Carpenter
From Modernism and Folklore in Graphic Design:
I love busy and energetic images like this, you can look around them a few times and still see new things that you hadn't noticed before
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