Tomi Ungerer 1931 - 2019さんのイラストまとめ

Tomi designed this book cover for William Faulkner's "Der Springer greift an" in 1974. Thanks to @diogenesverlag for allowing us to share this wonderful archive of book covers with Tomi's fans!

©1974 Tomi Ungerer/ Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich

We chose a snowy book cover from @diogenesverlag today, for anyone who needs cooling down in this heat. Tomi designed this book cover for a German edition of Anton Čechov's Ivanov in 1974.

© 1974, Tomi Ungerer and Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich #bookcovers #coverart #graphicdesign

Our @diogenesverlag book cover this week is for Meines Vaters Son, 1983. A German translation of Irish author Frank O'Connor's memoir, My Father's Son.

© 1983 Tomi Ungerer and Diogenes Verlag AG Zurich.

Horse week day 2. This poster is from a 1960s advertising campaign during the New York years.

Day 2 of owl week, here's another page from John Hollander's "A Book of Various Owls", which Tomi illustrated in 1963. The title is great, because it literally is a book of various owls.

Happy Monday! It's a bank holiday in Ireland, so if you see an Irish bank sitting on a towel at your local beach don't be alarmed. This seaside scene is from "Emile". -S.M.

Every Monday we're sharing one of the many different book cover designs Tomi created for @diogenesverlag authors through the years. This one was for the Urs Widmer Lesebuch, 1980.

© Tomi Ungerer/ Diogenes Verlag AG Zürich 1980

Snail number two
From "Snail, Where Are You?"
Or "Escargot, où es-tu?"
Or "Schnecke, wo bist du?"

#snailweek

Tomi's adopted home of Ireland is very unusually sunny right now. Benito Badoglio is perambulating the rural roads gleefully, like this:
-S.M.

Day 3 of pig week after you voted for pigs over horses in our animal poll. These ones are from "Snail, Where Are You", first published in 1962 and still in print!

Find this book in a shop near you, we've got a list of great stockists on Tomi's website: https://t.co/BQCyQ9kLoz