Your favorite coffee shop may have freshly-roasted beans and kick-ass wi-fi — but does it make you feel like you’re drinking in a cartoon?
The Café Yeonnam-dong is made to look like you’re the star of your very own comic strip — thanks, in part, to its use of heavy black lines over white walls.
The cartoon café is located in the Yeonman-dong district of Seoul, South Korea.
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What is it about the Starbucks coffee cup that inspires art? Is it the minimalist design? The unmistakable and perfectly-executed mermaid logo? Or, is it just the caffeine contained within that gets the creative juices flowing?
Either way, the cups have provided some of the best food art we’ve seen here. And, the work of South Korean artist, Soo Min Kim, is no exception. Using the Starbucks cup as canvas, Kim uses the mermaid as a starting point and rethinks the cup’s environment around her face.
The coffee mascot, by the hand of Kim, then becomes The Beatles, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man — or made to look as though she’s simply living amongst us humans. See more below and over at Instagram.
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The problem with fast food mascots, besides ruling over bogus sovereignties and being a creepy clown, is that they aren’t very action-packed.
Illustrator, Ozumii Wizard, wants to change all of that, by reimagining fast food mascots as anime characters. By adapting the anime drawing style, the once non-threatening Burger King, Ronald McDonald and Wendy’s — look ready for battle. Hopefully that battle is against childhood obesity and coulrophobia.
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What do you do for a living? Well, if you’re able to answer that question with, “Professional Banana Artist,” then you win life.
Netherlands-based artist, Stephan Brusche (@isteef), creates banana masterpieces… full-time. Using a combination of knives, ball-point pen and paint, Stephan modifies the banana’s peel — whether it’s illustrating directly on it, or peeling it back to give the art another dimension.
See more banana masterpieces below and over on Instagram.
We’ve seen our share of moms and dads making their kid’s school lunches more fun. However, it’s always the parent that’s showing off their illustration skills and creativity.
Takafumi Ozeki often makes character bento boxes (kyara-ben) for his pre-school daughter. Only for this one entry, he let his daughter’s skills shine, with a bento box created from her drawing.
Although the teacher might be concerned that dad’s bento skills have diminished, the story behind this lunch should probably be shared at the next parent/teacher conference.
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