Pencil drawings especially maps are a real treat like this cute hand drawn map of Isle of Dogs submitted to the Londonist.
Wouldn't it be cool if Google Maps has a hand drawn version of their maps for navigation?
Colourful Houses Bring Smiles
photography, designCommentGerman artist Janusz Grรผnspek has photographed a series of work namely Urban Pics featuring colourful house facades including rainbows, dreamy pastels, strong bold bright colours including purples and pinks, but our favourite houses are the ones that make faces from the facades. (Spot the orange ones!)
Images courtesy of Janusz Grรผnspek's instagram account @janusz.gruenspek. In addition check out his beautiful sculptures it makes us smile too!
Alternate American Flags Designs
readCommentOld Glory, a limited edition linen bound book published by Atelier รditions, 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 รditions.
Ikea Style Recipe Instructions
yum, illustrationCommentHow 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 appรฉtit!
Fine Wildlife Papercut
design, paperCommentUltra, รผber 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 (ไผๅขๅ็ด) - 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
Paper Snowflakes With Nobel Physicists
diy, paperCommentThe 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.
Balloon Animal Sculptures
designCommentBalloons 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.
First, Coffee
designCommentCoffee 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.
