Release Date: Re-released August 2026, original release date 2009
Artist: Édouard Traviès
Why we brought this out of the archives: The original artwork for Whimsical Birds was too small to enlarge into the size puzzle we wanted to offer, so we added a border around it. When the plain green border felt too empty, our puzzle designer Lynon Aksamit introduced whimsical figurals and dropouts—open spaces cut into the puzzle—to bring it to life. This early experimentation with dropout pieces was also a nod to the best hand cutting creative techniques of the 1930s, and a feature that Lynon likes to employ to this day.
