Toon Joosen is an art director and visual designer from the Netherlands. His main job includes working on advertisement campaigns and designing logos, posters, magazine front pages, and book covers. But Joosen’s true passion is collage art.
Joosen has amassed an impressive social media following thanks to his quirky collages that he creates from vintage photos, magazines, and other material. Most of the time, he combines everyday scenes in a way that delivers an unexpected twist.
For example, one of his collages combines a figure of a woman cleaning with a photo of a crowded beach. The result is a scene in which the woman is actually wiping out the crowd with a piece of cloth.
“My ideas are based on daily observations and ordinary objects,” Joosen explains on his website. “I use magazines, postcards, paper, streetjunk, own photography and own drawings to create tongue-in-cheek scenarios with a vintage feel.”
He also isn’t a stranger to including famous paintings in his collages. For example, he combined a long receipt with Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter to create an unexpectedly amusing work.
Joosen regularly shares his newest creations on Instagram while also running a successful Etsy shop where he offers prints, mini books, and other items featuring his collages. Check out more of them below.
