Blue Train Mural

Below is a short (amateur) film of a hand-painted mural (1 x 1 metre), I created for the wall of a young boy's bedroom. When asked what he wanted, he said: a blue train, with ten carriages, filled with animals and him driving the engine.

Although the mural no longer exists, I’ve written and published the story to the mural accompanied by a series of illustrations, which will soon be self-published as a children's storybook.

© Alison Day Designs

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Around the World

Here's my take on a fun way to not only raise up a plant in a tall glass vase, but at the same time re-cycle a redundant globe lamp. - Stylish, funky, light and airy solution with none of the potential block-feel that an upturned flower pot would give!

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New Wave Entrepreneur

Maya Penn is 13 and already making her mark in this world. A great source of inspiration she is an active - young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer and activist. Her clothing and jewellery business she set up at the age of 8 and now sells all over the world. 

Bloom Society

Hollyhocks

'... The mother loved them years ago;
Beside the fence they used to grow,
And though the garden changed each year
And certain blooms would disappear
To give their places in the ground
To something new that mother found,
Some pretty bloom or rosebush rare—
The hollyhocks were always there.  ...'

- Edgar A Guest

Alcea, commonly known as hollyhocks, is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae. They are native to Asia and Europe.

For prints (watermarkless!): Here 

Illustration: ©Alison Day Designs

Verse via: All Poetry

Alive without Breath

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs

Is those things arms, or is they legs?

I marvel at thee, Octopus;

If I were thou, I'd call me Us  — Ogden Nash

An octopus in a bowl? 

No, this is a 3-D creation of Sinapore-based artist Keng Lye - modern-day illusionist, who's work emerges as the result of pouring resin into a bowl, layer by layer and then painting it in great detail with acrylics.

The technique was originated by Riusuke Fukahori. How it's done, watch this. 

This is one of a series called Alive without breath. Other equally beautiful examples can be viewed here.

Source: This is Colossal

Kitty Face

Take a look at the caterpillar of the Chinese Bush Brown butterfly - a native to the rainforests and deciduous forests of  Japan - which  nature has amusingly given a face similar to the popular cartoon character 'Hello Kitty'.

Via DesignTaxi

The Whisper

Campaign McCann Worldgroup India for Penguin to encourage people to buy their  audiobooks. Featuring well known authors, for example, Shakespeare, whispering into the listener's ears in the form of headphones. For the other two, follow the link: DesignTaxi