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

Rifle Paper Co. is one of my favourite stationery brands. I really love San Francisco illustrator Anna Bond’s vintage style and use of colours, but after buying and giving away every possible variation of greeting card of hers for the last few years, it feels like it’s about time I should have something a little more permanent.

Lucky for me the brand has recently begun producing art prints of their most popular designs, but the ones I think are especially beautiful and encapsulate the magic of Bond’s signature charming style are her new City prints. Depicting naive maps and landmarks of capitol cities around the world, each one has the idealised dreaminess of holiday memories.

From $40 I think they would all make perfect souvenirs from your travels.

Debuting at this year’s National Stationery Show in New York, Brooklyn based studio Frances Lab showed a striking collection of vintage inspired cards. Combining collage and monochrome prints, their style is super simple but out of the ordinary. Check out their new store here.

Beautiful business cards, expensive procrastination [time spent browsing and dreaming vs working] or essential to your business? I’m going for the latter! After returning to freelancing this month after three years of full-time trend forecasting, I seem to have lost all my business cards from all those prior years of freelancing [seven to be precise]  - oh well, new year, new start!

I have my eyes on these beauties from my favourite San Francisco based stationary brand Rifle Paper Co. Known for their whimsical illustrations in their distinctive style and vintage colour palette,  you can have your ‘calling cards’ customised in your likeness and hand lettered in your name. Just choose your ‘head’ from a drop down menu and off you go! Cards start from $50 for 25.

I wish my head was a little more exciting though, it would probably be 11… Which would you be?

Love the look of bell jars but find them essentially pointless unless maybe you’re a collector of some sort [or you enjoy dusting every day]? Well UK based Bulgarian artist Marina Munn’s fantastical series ‘Collecting’ might be just the thing for a beautiful and uncomplicated relationship.

Munn’s series illustrates sometimes surreal and sometimes mundane objects captured under bell jars in softly psychedelic colours. From an entire cosmos hovering under a glass dome – to a Victorian key and an ombre hued chunk of coral – each scene draws you into a tiny magical world. You can see the rest of Marina’s work on her site and on her Tumblr and buy fine art prints from Auguste Clown Gallery.

Scandinavian brand Darling Clementine are one of my favourite home accessories brands – and every-time they release a new theme that is cuter and more fun than the next. Their fresh illustrations always use amazing colour combinations and clever narratives that make me itch to buy more notebooks and totes and cards than i really need!

Their new Folk & Flora series is totally up my street. Inspired by daily life and homely things, reading glasses, Moorish pretzels, cosy mugs of tea, books and sugar cubes dance across canvas totes, notebooks and stationary. I think the designs would look perfect on a tableware collection too!

You can buy the new collection online here