Yesterday's post was about Belgium and design, so let's continue the thread for another day with a Belgian illustrator, René-Marie Bodson (1878-1955). After studying at the Academy in Liège, René-Marie Bodson worked as a painter and also created costumes and sets in Paris for shows and cabaret performances.
He drew numerous posters, adverts and theatre programs proving he was not just a good illustrator, but also a visual chronicler of contemporary events.
His work was often characterised by irony as the poster that accompanies this post also proves (well, we are in the middle of Milan Design Week and this ad is connected with product design, so it seems very apt...).
The advert shows a vacumm cleaner that is so powerful that it can vacuum nasty germs and microbes, incarnated by alien-like figures, but also the moon. This illustration from 1904 is particularly inspiring since it seems to have some connections with early silent films such as Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès's Le voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon, 1902).
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