Posters for looking at the world up close
Zoomlupe was born in a children’s bedroom in Roeschwoog, in Alsace, a stone’s throw from the Rhine. Our children are growing up in French and German, one at school in France, the other in Germany.
It all started with two outings: Le Vaisseau in Strasbourg, then Experimenta in Heilbronn. During those visits, I watched them, spellbound and curious about everything. And once back home, the questions never stopped: why do the planets go round, where did the dinosaur go, how does the digger dig? To answer them, I started drawing: when you’re three, a picture beats a long explanation. The drawings became posters on their bedroom wall, and those posters became Zoomlupe.
What you’ll find here
Science posters designed for children from 2 or 3 up to 10, in French, German and English, and in bilingual versions for those growing up between two languages. Each poster makes a usually complicated subject accessible, the solar system, the human body, the water cycle, without simplifying it to the point of getting it wrong. And each poster has a QR code: scan it with a phone and it opens a short animation that tells the same story in motion, for children who can’t read yet.
Free at home and at school
The PDFs are free: ask for them by e-mail, print them, put them up. Schools get a class code to download every poster directly. If you’d rather have a beautiful print on thick paper, delivered to your door, we print it for you; that is what pays for the next posters.
What we don’t do
No ads, no trackers, no account to create. Your e-mail address is used to send you the poster, and for nothing else without your consent.
Who’s behind it
Achille, parent of two and software engineer, with more than ten years’ experience at large German companies in banking, insurance, the car industry and education. I draw, code and print; my children test everything first.
Write to us: hello@zoomlupe.com.
For teachers
The posters are free for the classroom. Here are the rules, in plain words.
You may: print and laminate the posters for your class and your school, project them, photocopy them for your pupils, and give families the link or the QR code.
You may not: sell the posters, modify them, remove the Zoomlupe credit, put the PDF file online (school learning platforms included): share the link zoomlupe.com/p/… instead, and each family gets its own poster; nor pass the PDF on to other families: send them the link.
The Classroom Set: five laminated posters and the class code