Colour a plenty

I have lots to be smiling about of late... Fun and challenging work projects, little kicking feet inside my steadily growing belly and the feeling of winter slipping away and the summer shining on through!



The discovery of this great new blog last week was something to add to my list. Plenty of Colour is full of (as you'd imagine) incredible colourful things.... like the above asphalt painting in Berlin (photo by happy pixels) My favorite pieces though, are the sequin art artworks by Danish/Czech artist, Theresa Himmer. Imagine turning the corner to see that!!



(The one above is a volcano... and below is a waterfall!)

Blog World Wednesday > Upon a Fold

*sigh* Upon a Fold is enough to keep my paper obsessed self dribbling on my desk for days... Written in conjuction with a shop of the same name, it showcases an amazing array of paper artists, demonstrating just how versatile those little white sheets can be and how creative people really are! So much inspiration here... and just when your emotions have been all folded up, you can buy lots of the amazing things in the shop! (see why I sigh now?)

Blog World Wednesday > English Muffin Blog

It's been awhile since I did one of these posts but they're officially back (as long as great blogs keep popping up that is!) 

I was initially attracted to this blog because of it's name... what's not to love about english muffins (especially when covered in vegemite!) English Muffin is one talented lady's great print design company run from Vienna, Austria. The blog is an extension of this and not only are the images great, but there are lots of thoughts and insights on running a small design business which are beautifully written to not feel like work at all... both questions and answers. Read it if you want to start a new business or simply if you feel like a dose of fresh and clean imagery.

Visit the webshop too (I particuarly like the bike print)

Blog World Wednesday > Unruly things

I don't know how it's taken me so long to find Unruly Things and only just today have poured over it. I'm a huge fan of Postal Press and this is a behind the brains viewpoint... and how lovely a view it is too!!! Lots of good fashion finds but also (and best of all) paper and print design and font goodness and some postal press sneak peeks of course... go see for yourself...

Blog World Wednesday > Color Me Katie

I've mentioned Color Me Katie before on here but I just can't get enough of it... if you're ever feeling at all glum this is the place to go for color bursts and creative photographic joy! Katie is a Brooklyn based photographer with a mountain sized imagination... she makes me want to skip around town throwing edible confetti on everyone!
If you like the photos, go watch this cute-as-punch and hugely inspiring video

Blog World Wednesday > Birds of a Feather

How did Wednesday slip by so quietly? I know i'm a day late with this but its a good one so hopefully you don't mind so much?! Birds of a Feather is a daily photography diary of professional photographers Lou and Sarah... the photos are all really beautiful and striking compositions... their adorable dog features in a fair few too!

Blog World Wednesday > Fancy Frills

Only just discovered the lovely land that is Fancy Frills. Almost everything on there makes my eyes swell and twinkle... beautiful illustrations, photography, handmade jewellry and loads of amazing etsy shops to scour. It's the inspiring compendium of Salt Lake City designer and illustrator, Valerie Jar - whose own site is full of amazing design examples too. Hope you like it as much as I do!

Blog World Wednesday > All the mountains

All the mountains is becoming one of my favourite interweb hide outs... it feels so cosy and happy there... each post is headed with a day of the week, contains a photo or few and a link, nothing more... simple but so good!
It is written by designer and illustrator, Amy whose work can be found through her site Cake with Giants. In fact she has a number of projects... we make words is another great site which does what it says on the packet... go see for yourself!

Blog World Wednesday > my daily reads

Sometimes the enormity of the blog world boggles my mind... there are so many wide eyed and talented people all over the place finding and posting up inspiring things or creating great new work. I find the list of blogs I'm admiring gets larger with every week and I feel as though soon it will fill all my days! I thought I should celebrate this...

So, stay tuned next week (and every wednesday thereafter) for inspiring links to other worlds and a few words from the mouth of the creator. To start off though I thought i'd show a few of my favourite daily peeks.

Mint ::: written by Durham (US) based print designer, Ellie Snow. Filled with lots of great print design, stationary, fashion, photography and some of her own lovely work from Hello Tenfold too.
Black Eiffel ::: written by Rachel, a designer and photographer from the USA. Filled with Interior design and decorations, Letterpress and stationary, Fashion and Photography.
and of course Design Sponge*::: (The very first blog I ever read I think) Grace and her team of creative folk always give us good things... DIY projects, City design guides, Sneek peeks into houses, guest posts and loads more... but you probably already knew that?!