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Old Glory, a limited edition linen bound book published by Atelier Γditions, Old Glory features 50 unseen United States flag designs that were submitted to President Eisenhower, following the addition of Hawaii & Alaska as the 49th and 50th states of the United States in 1958 and 1959.
Images courtesy of Atelier Γditions.
How would recipes instructions look like if they were Ikea instructions? Food magazine, Delish has illustrated a fun spoof series of recipes including how to make french macarons, deep fried turkey, gingerbread house, beer-can chicken, apple pie and even a watermelon keg that just follows the Ikea instructions blueprint called "If Recipes Were Ikea Instructions". Bon appΓ©tit!
Ultra, ΓΌber fine wildlife nature inspired papercut, by San Francisco based papercut artist Kanako Abe. The intricate and delicate paper cut technique is based on Ise-katagami (δΌε’εη΄) - a traditional Japanese paper craft technique composed of fine repeated patterns and shapes bringing these squirrels, bears, butterflies, forest plants and wildlife to life!
Definitely no cabin fever, but an inspiration to head out to the woods!
Photos courtesy of Kanako Abe's Instagram account @abemanatee
The Beast from the East has created plenty of snow around the UK. Paper snowflakes are in mind, especially these sciency snowflakes featuring three Nobel physicists, courtesy of Symmetry Magazine, an online magazine about particle physics.
Templates to cut these awesome sciency snowflakes are available here.
Balloons are perfect for celebrations. Japanese artist, Masayoshi Matsumoto, creates the most colourful balloon sculptures celebrating nature including birds, plants, insects and wildlife animals that blow us away! Simply wonderful!
Besides animals, Masayoshi Matsumoto also makes animal skeletons out of balloons.
Coffee provides a warm hug, especially when they are held in coffee cups that are illustrated with such bright and warm colours and patterns. More fab coffee cups can be found on Instagram via Coffee Cups of the World.
Our kind of pies, the right type (literally, and also from a typography perspective), filled with fun puns and lovely decoration, made by Maria Saba .
With our frequent commute on the London Underground, with the hustle and bustle we sometimes forget to take stock of the beautiful patterns and illustrations that could be found decorating the walls of the London tube stations. Thank you to instagram account Tube Patterns that have documented the graphical commute.
The below set of tile graphics include patterns from stations including Paddington, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Station, Highbury and Islington and Oxford Circus. Choo choo!
