Skinny laMink creates lovely vintage mug tea towels! She also has some great concepts for ceramics, paper and vinyl. Great stuff.

    
Inspiring illustrated type wallpapers by Natalie Wright! See more of her work over on good ol’ flickr. 

Looking at the installation work of Paul Hayes makes my heart swell! It all feels so alive. I think most of it is done with paper.
I had trouble picking which images to feature. Look at more here.
Edited to add, Paul says:
I’m having an opening from 7-9pm on thursday, and the piece is the top [...]

Make a Monster, daVinci style, at the Universal Leonardo site.

I haven’t really done a roundup style post before (it almost feels like cheating), but it seems like I’ve been hit from all sides today with beautiful and curious-making blog entries, so here we go:
From Kottke.org (via waxy.org), we discover the work of Tim Knowles, who explores the imprints of motion and gives the power [...]

…Guide to Watercolor Painting is by Bruce MacEvoy.
It may be self-proclaimed, but I do believe it. I could spend years reading it. Too many highlights to highlight. So just go and check it out.

At a time when I am getting bored of watercolors, this has been a refreshing find.
His other sites? A little quirky.

How cool is this? Colour Lovers, a site all about trends, palettes, and any other information you’d like to research about colour! Even rating colour palettes! The above palette is called ‘midnight salad’. Reading the titles makes me think about what it would be like to have the job to name colours.
I also love [...]