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Sure, we all doodle on our coffee cups. However, unless you’re one of the coffee cup artists that we’ve featured previously, Ilana M Schwartz‘s coffee cup drawings are better than that garbage you put out.
In all fairness, Schwartz is an illustrator at Nickelodeon and, besides having mad talent, she gets first-hand inspiration from characters such as Spongebob Squarepants, Steven Universe and The Fairly Odd Parents.
See more below and over at Instagram.
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Living inside ordinary coffee cups are these creative dioramas by Anastassia Elias.
Intricately carved out of the cup’s cardboard, the scenes are then back-lit to create mood and scale. See more below and over at Elias’ Facebook page here.
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We’ve certainly seen our share of coffee cup art. The often stark white drinking vessels have become a blank canvas for brilliant typography, comic strips, and have even gone 3-D.
Tokyo-based artist Adrian Hogan is now taking the medium panoramic, with an Instagram video series. Hogan illustrates a scene on a cup, then takes us through his surroundings with a slow twist. Check out more below and over at Instagram.
We’ve certainly seen our share of coffee cup art… especially artists taking liberties with the Starbucks mermaid.
South Korean artist Soo Min Kim takes the medium of disposable coffee cup art a step further, by compromising the cup itself, and having a little fun with the ubiquitous mermaid.
For the few times that Starbucks actually asks for your name to write on the cup, an embarrassing misspelling of your name is imminent.
London-based Starbucks barista, Gabriel Lafitte Nkweti, not only makes sure to spell your name correctly, but turns the names of his coffee customers into works of art.
The art is obviously not done while your latte is being made… Starbucks isn’t that slow. Nkweti takes in upwards of 40 hours to complete one piece of cup art — drawing inspiration from his patrons and various art forms. See more of his collection at his Facebook page.
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