JVH FUNNY WORLD – THE PRINTING OFFICE 1000 PIECE PUZZLE

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JVH Funny World – The Printing Office 1000 Piece Puzzle

Jan van Haasteren was born in 1936 in Schiedam near Rotterdam, Holland.  In 1962 he started work doing advertising/illustration and went on to work for Toonder Animation Studios.

Among the many figures he used to draw was Disney’s Hiawatha.  After 5 years he left to become a freelance illustrator, creating a comic strip called ‘Baron van Tast’ which became fairly well known.  Shortly after he received his first poster commission from Heineken to design the interior of a pub for their Lemon Genever.

This was the start of a long list of posters, which he does for clients all over the world.  He has made Olympic Games posters for Philips, a series of interiors of crazy factories for Colt International, posters for banks and insurance companies, etc.  Comic strips and posters are his favourite works.  He now creates a lot of puzzle illustrations exclusively for Jumbo, which find their way into homes in may countries.