Tag archive: art

10 artists, writers and musicians who made great art for kids

14 January 2013

Maybe not all artists are children, but many artists have been inspired by childhood to make beautiful art. We had a look at architects, but many writers, visual artists and musicians were inspired to create work for kids too: here are some of our favorites.

1 – Bruno Munari

How not to open with Bruno Munari, an artist who contributed greatly to education and didactic, and whose work, for kids and otherwise, will always be a source of inspiration for us! Remember the series of activities for kids inspired by him we sent out with our newsletter last summer? The list of his work for children is long, but this poster of speaking forks (and the images in the gallery) can give you an idea of his intelligent and playful approach to design.

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Children’s Eyes on Earth, a contest for kids’ photographs on the environment.

15 October 2012

Children are artists, they are art critics and they can be toy designers too. That’s not all of course, and here is an initiative that shows how kids can be great photographers too.

SOS, Anastasya Vorobko, 8, Russia, First Prize Winner, Children’s Eyes on Earth 2012

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Celebrities at your fingertips.

12 October 2012

“Dito” means “finger” in Italian. And Dito von Tease (nice nickname, right?) is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who authored a very peculiar body of work: a collection of portraits of famous characters from history, literature, art, pop-culture and more painted on fingertips (we’ve all tried this once, but probably with less striking results!).

This is Dito Mozart, for instance:


All images courtesy of Ditology.com

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Objects from the modern British childhood at the V&A.

11 October 2012

It looks like historic exhibitions on childhood are a bit of a trend lately – and certainly a trend we like!

If you happen to be in New York, remember to go check out the amazing Century of the Child at MoMA. And if, instead, you are in London Town, there is a fun show (check out the slide show – funny captions) opening on Saturday, October 13th, and up all the way till April 14th 2013 at the V&A Museum of Childhood.

These are not actually part of the show, but Sylvanian Families will be represented.
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These toys have secrets.

1 October 2012

Did you know that Yoda is studying English grammar? Or that the penguins are concerned about something they read in TIME magazine? And that the recession is hitting Star Wars too?

All pictures courtesy of Marcos Minuchin

There’s a place to keep up with these updates, and it’s the newly updated site of Secret Life of Toys (SLT).

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An exhibition at the MoMA celebrates the century of the child.

18 September 2012

If you happen to be in New York, here is something you don’t want to miss: Century of the Child, an ambitious exhibition at the MoMA about design for children (its theories and developments) in the XX Century – “the century of the child,” as design reformer Ellen Key called (and envisioned) it in 1900.

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The MoMA Unadulterated. An audio tour created by kids.

14 September 2012

Be ready, your day is about to be made.

This is the trailer for MoMA Unadulterated, an audio tour of the MoMA created by kids between 3 and 10. We already knew children are artists, now here’s proof that they are art critics too!

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Our readers are artists!

6 September 2012

It must be the most quoted thing Picasso never said, that “every child is an artist.”  If only we could have just a tiny bit of the creativity and imagination children have, we’d all be able to create amazing art, right?

So, when we discovered this 8-year-old artist, we thought all our young readers are probably great artists too and we asked them to submit their masterpieces to make a wonderful online gallery!

Our ten-year-old reader Waverly painted this for us: pretty impressive, right? And she sent us a few more great drawings, check them out in the gallery. [read more]


Newsletter guest editors: Ruggero Poi & Annalisa Perino.

31 August 2012

Nothing like two new guest editors for our newsletter to start September with excitement!

Starting next week, Ruggero Poi and Annalisa Perino will share with you three activities about the senses to do with your kids.

This wonderful illustration is from “My Five Senses,” an illustrated book published in 1962 by Aliki.

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How does it rain?

2 August 2012

Speaking of rain and cuteness, in this animation artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III of FriendsWithYou show how they imagine rain happening:

This looks perfectly scientific to us, that do you think?


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