It's a really difficult task to write only a little bit about Bologna and to make it with a personal approach. If I would try to do it I would only say that I have went there twice and never came back the same person or the same illustrator. For the rest of you who perhaps have never attended the fair and have considered going there I will do my best with a more unbiased description. For the rest of you who have already been there this article might be just a boring description far away from the vividness of the real experience.

Since 1963 Bologna Children's Book Fair opens each year to reveal the trends in the children's multimedia and publishing industry. At this point it is considered the most important international event of it's kind and it gathers more than 1000 exhibitors and a diverse program of events for the attendees - exhibitions, presentations, debates, seminars and meetings. The fair it's closed to the public at large but opened for four days to publishers, writers, illustrators and designers, organizations, literary and art agents, distributors and journalists that report on the latest news in this field.

One country is selected each year as a Guest of Honor to exhibit it's best books and illustrations and if in 2010 Slovakia did wow me with it's exhibition, this year was Lithuania's turn to do it with a simply amazing display containing the illustrations and the published books containing them. Everything was enclosed in a large, thick and white wall with little doors that opened in a German Advent calendar style revealing a varied collection of amazing illustrations selected from 32 of the most famous Lithuanian illustrators of all time. Kęstutis Kasparavičius, one of my favorite ones was there as well and as I have found out today he was actually in town too.
I just came across their website and wept on a few things I have missed. Now I'm trying to comfort myself and to get used to the idea that it's impossible not to miss a few very important things in the end. Although I'm a usually focused person, when I'm around amazing books I tend to have the attention span of a mouse inside a cheese cupboard.
I just can't help it so it's better to get used to it.

This month, on some of the streets of Bucharest. :)

Client: Foltene
Agency: Headvertising

Because I've been really busy working, for months and months it has been really quiet on my blog. Now I'm trying to catch up wit a few updates on my projects and hopefully a new and improved website soon.

This is one of the projects I had in mind sharing but I'll add several more in the next days.

My illustrations made for Selecta Spielzeug are now on the market as part of an educational game that will train the knowledge and concentration of little children with ages between 1 and 3 years old.
Yay!

It's available for purchase on their website with the game instructions in several languages.

I just love to hear the people talking about creativity. It makes me not to be so damn scared about all this process. Most especially I love to hear John Cleese speaking about it because he has started to grow on me many years ago and, well, he's still growing!
I really appreciated his thoughts.



And now for something completely different, the medical explanation on how our brain works.
If you put it this way nothing can be simpler than that, right?