The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

These are bugs that would be handy to have around! Should you happen to need a  paperclip or a lightbulb… you could just grab a passing bug!

Household bugs are cleverly created by illustrator Robert Samuel Hanson using household items. Robert seems to love replacing the expected with the unexpected so that they fit together – also check out his version of the Alphabet.

Zara Picken is a Bristol bases illustrator who specialises in nostalgic, mid-century inspired art. Her images are retro-tinted with textured blocks of colour – combining digital and handmade elements and vintage ephemera. Each and every one of her images make me smile and feel completely iconic in essence.

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How cute are these matchboxes from the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm? The matches illustrate different architectural styles – Renaissance, international and gothic – together the match boxes create a small city block. Designed by Happy Forsman & Bodenfors.

Print from Rockett St George

Finally Friday! Fridays are my favourite day, deadlines are over and everyone is so chilled : ) In keeping with my chilled vibe, we are headed to Italy for our recipe today straight from a family run olive grove, plus some great discoveries. Next up, the interiors of an uber-cool new concept store in London…

I think I’ve just met my artistic soulmate… Louise Robinson’s illustrates under the banner of Art and Ghosts and creates the most ethereal digital art. Her imagery features wide eyed long haired children and sometimes gentle animals, in supernatural and surreal situations. To me they have a Japanese Manga art quality about them coupled with a whimsical Victoriana narrative.

The images are surreal yet soothing, some are macabre but amusing.

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