Miffy Never Retires

The day before yesterday someone told me that it I have a world famous icon also celebrating it's 60th B'day... Miffy (or 'Nijntje' as its called in Dutch)

Miffy was created in 1955 after the Dutch artist Dick Bruna had been telling his one-year-old son Sierk stories about a little rabbit they had seen earlier in the dunes, while on holiday at Egmond aan Zee. Miffy became a female after Bruna decided that he wanted to draw a dress and not trousers on his rabbit. Depending on the story, Miffy can be range in age from being a baby to being four years old.


At first Miffy looked like a toy animal, with floppy ears, but by 1963 she looked the way we see Miffy today. Miffy is drawn in a minimalist style, requiring only a few lines and one or two primary colors. There are some colors that are never used, and Bruna can be picky about a certain shade of color, brown and grey for example, and will search for it until he is happy. Even though the things that he draws are not realistic, they are instantly recognisable, and Miffy is obviously a rabbit.


To honor this there is are special 60 year Miffy exhibitions such as in Utrecht and in the World Famous Rijks Museum in Amsterdam from may 1st till september 30th.