illustration by Annika Uppendahl

The birth of foomp

a few years ago , "plop" there was one foomp, no plan no concept just a foomp, than came nummer 2 and 3 and 4 and 5,6,7,8,9, ten end then.......thousends.....ajaj a virus was born. .....

The origin of the name

For a long time the little puppet had no name although a lot of suggestions were done: hups, hops, tjoempaas, dotjes, snotters, prullies, tamponies, kwazantjes, kwasies, minifreaks, toetkloekies, zoepiebonsters, de dithiers, turbotoetjes etcetera....

One day, when I was at an art exposition in Eindhoven with a lot of puppets, I met Henri Strijbos who told me he had came up with a name for my puppet which he thought suited perfectly: foomp. He came up with this name when a couple of years ago a friend worked in a home for mentally handicapped people. A woman named Truusje also lived in this home and she had the tendency to give a ‘smacking’ kiss on the fore-arm of everyone she liked. But instead of ‘smacking’ she said foooooooooomp. Some time later, when I was in Germany and the puppet was being launched in the dotdotdash book, Mathias let made me the final decision about the name. It was going to be fOOmp!

differend story's on this part....


loulou made a great portret of the foompmamma!
                                                                   
  translation thanx to Marian Huys foomp helped painted a building in Breda, together with staynice, tummiedesign, loulou, rutger thermolen, formaddict, en beeldend Kabaal foompcake Yvette schotman made for his son's birthsday foomp parade, carsten in the rikscher von kreutzberg to the bears in berlin alway's when i'm on a toilet i have to laugh...x miek Ones upon a fime on a rock in France a foomp in a bottle made a flight into the beach a few weeks after... the happy founder sent this photo when miek was drawing ,..............................onoooooooooooooo a foomp       Sandy created the sandwich egg specials   a young foompfan made surpises for his friends on his birthsday .     Foomp children theater play " naomi vermeulen, sjaak hertog en mieke driessen and loodz theater. foomptheater with the silend disco " parade amsterdam"   Nina backed a foompie mmmjammie for miek's birstday and for an exhibition she made a few moths later whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauw super foompcakes for everyone! foomps in the air someone send me this picture he made in india, he had to think about the foomps Maikel Verkoelen "stuido mik" meets also the foomps Foomp party Baarlo at the party four teams had to made a videoclip in one afternoon