Santa Claus is Real in London

Just like where’s wally, Santa spotting has just gotten real in London, especially via instagram account @SantaClausLondon. Follow to see Mr. Santa Claus, for real.

Let It Snow On Paper Mountains

As the mercury drops, Christmas is near, this has us thinking about snow capped mountains.

This photo shoot on Paper Mountains by photographer Bruno Drummond with beautiful geometric shaped mountains created by set designer Hattie Newman captures exactly that.

Waiting for snow …

Christmas Emojis From Finland

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Finland has created some iconic emojis to celebrate the culture and important icons of Finland.

From Christmas emojis, where, of course Santa is a part; as Santa lives in Korvatunturi, Lapland, and the reindeers too! Iconic inventions including the Nokia 3310 phone (remember the snake game and that iconic phone tune), and the Finnish traditions such as the Sauna, Moomin are all part of this super cute emoji set.

Can’t wait to see these super cute emojis being animated into short Christmas animations. Ho ho ho!

These cute icons are available to download via iTunes on the Apple Store / Google Play.

Hashtag #PaperLeaves

On Instagram, search by using hashtag #PaperLeaves to discover all the different varieties of leaves made from paper. Monstera, oxalis, rex begonia, rubber plant, variegated plant leaves; leaves created from painting, cutting, folding, creasing. For real, beleaf - plants definitely make people happy.

NHS, Yes, Yes, Yes

It's NHS70! This year, the NHS, one of Britain's most prized institution celebrates its 70th anniversary. To thank such an amazing healthcare service we have in the UK, designer Carl Godfrey has designed an enamel pin badge to thank and fundraise for the NHS. 

The blue badge uses the signature font and colours of the NHS blue paired with it's italicised font. NHS is reinterpreted in a clever and cheeky way that says "NH-YES"! The badges can be found on the NH-Yes Website. 

All profits raised will be donated to the charity NHS Charities Together. 

Thank you to all the healthcare professionals, doctors, nurses, volunteers, support and research staff to keeping us healthy and safe. 

All images from Carl Godfrey's / NH-Yes website. 

Pink Bananas Are Real

If all our fruits were pink. First, Bananas. Ab fab pink bananas images created by HaloKidnapper. Cool bananas!

Greeting Cards Now In Urban Outfitters

Yay! A selection of our "Don't Be Blue, Scratch and Smile" are now available in Urban Outfitters, both online and in stores. 

Here's a glimpse of the selection of greeting cards, find them by click through the link in photos:

Play Pictionary With Google

Who loves to doodle? We do. Normally we may draw and doodle on paper, but more often in Photoshop or Illustrator. We stumbled upon this website, set up by google called Quick, Draw! , and if you are a lover of doodling and pictionary. This "game" website is not to be missed.

You will be given 20 seconds to draw a person / object, for example, from our examples below, you could be asked to draw Mona Lisa, French Fries to a Smiley Face, but it could also be as random as the Great Wall of China, a mermaid, or even a houseplant, a wide variety. According to Google's machine learning (or Google coins it Neural Network), based on what you have drawn, it will try to find a match to check what's been illustrated is correct.

The interesting thing is that after 6 games, you could click and find out examples that were drawn by others. With regards, to French Fries, surprised that fries doodled with "M" (Mcdonalds) on the packaging is quite a popular choice. 

There are a total of 50 million drawings that have been inventorised by Google, from over 15 million people that has submitted their illustrations through playing the game. This makes it the world's largest doodling data set.

It's interesting to find out participants have been asked to draw a range of stationery too from Pencils, Markers, Erasers, to Paper Clips. 

Here's a snippet of how people have illustrated a pencil, a paper clip and an eraser in 20 seconds. Have a go at https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com !

(It's fun and addictive).