Alphonsus Josephus Hubertus van Heusden (1930-2000), otherwise known as Alfons van Heusden, was a Dutch graphic designer and illustrator. He was a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague during the 1980s. He’s best known, though, for creating the graphics on many children’s jigsaws and card games that were produced by Jumbo Puzzle.
We have a couple of examples of his designs available in our webshop. We love his work so much, we included an image of one of them on the reverse of our business cards! It’s the game in the top, right of our collection above – and it also happens to be an item that’s in the permanent collection of Amsterdam Museum.
We’ve recently seen another couple of his items currently for sale on Etsy.
Working alongside poet and children’s writer, Willem Wilmink, he illustrated the latter’s 1980 book – ‘Spook tussen spoken’ (which translates as Ghost between ghosts).
He illustrated Even naarde brievenbus (Just to the letterbox), Hahaha, je vader (Ha ha ha, your father) and Groot groter grootst (Big bigger biggest) written by Ivo de Wijs.
In 1981, he designed a series of Christmas cards for children, one of which is the bottom image in our montage.
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