Iris van den Akker

In January 2025, I got an email. 'We have a dream. To create a children's book. We have an idea. A night in the woods. A thrilling book for elementary and middle school. In beautiful blue tones, with bright yellow accents. Printed with flow-in-the-dark ink, so children can charge their book by the lamp. And then fall asleep with a starry sky. The eyes of a fox. Fireflies. The moon.' If emails begin like that, how can I ever say no? This was a long project, from start to finish, and a lot of...

A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a call for posters by Posters for the Planet. This initiative, created by the Turing foundation (a charitabl

With help from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan. All photos by Jaime Miki . In the summer of 2022, I had my first...