Thursday, January 26, 2012

Maurice Sendak brilliant on Colbert Report

Maurice Sendak appeared in a two part feature on The Colbert Report this week, and I have to say that he is one of the most entertaining and insightful guests I have ever seen.


In case you don't know, Maurice Sendak is best known as author and illustrator of the 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are.  He was illustrator of the book series Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik, which inspired the Nelvana-produced Little Bear animated series.  I was fortunate to have the opportunity to be responsible for the merchandise licensing program for Little Bear at Nelvana, and was thrilled to see 84 year old Sendak on The Colbert Report.

For his take on kids' literature and more, watch here:

Monday, January 9, 2012

This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids

Working in the Sticker business, I have seen a lot of cool concepts, but never anything quite like this, which comes from Australia:








H/T Colossal Art and Design via Sasha Boersma.