über cool book drawings – de stijl movement

I wanna read these books judging by their cover. The Dutch artist, DICK BRUNA (b.1927) is behind the drawings on these book covers. I love his naïve and simple style as well as flat colorful compositions. 

“I would love to be able to draw like a child, so spontaneous, so open-minded on those big sheets. As an adult you start to draw and then hope that you make something good, something beautiful. A child is not like that, they start and see what happens… I draw things you will see close to home, things that I also like. Maybe I still think a bit like a child, I have a childish mind, I think. There are a lot of things I don’t understand.” (DICK BRUNA).

Dick Bruna was born into a Dutch publishing house A.W.Bruna & Son, but he never liked the business side of it and became a drawer of book covers instead. Bruna has produced more than 2000 characteristic and recognizable book covers for the A.W.Bruna & Son. Bruna has sold more than 85 million storybooks- translated into 40 languages.Bruna was influenced by the Dutch graphic design of the De Stijl Movements - they advocated a reduction to the essentials of form and color and mainly used primary colors along with black and white. Via butdoesitfloat