Miscellaneous samurai cats of unknown origin

I started a ‘Cats, cats, cats’ board on Pinterest last week. It was a spur of the moment thing and serves no more of a purpose than my ‘Trees’ board does – I like trees, and I like cats, so I collect images of them. Whereas, at least my food and design boards serve an inspiration purpose. But anyway, it’s my Pinterest account and I can pin what I want!

One of the first images that got pinned to the Cats, cats, cats board features many wonderful samurai or ninja felines. Unfortunately, as is the way with many of the images on Pinterest, I have no idea who the artist is or even where these cats come from. My ‘pin’ is pinned from someone else, who seems to have found the image here – a website that is basically a Chinese Tumblr. I’ve tried a Google search-by-image but it only brings up more Pinterest pages and mystery Chinese or Japanese blogs.

Alas, I tried. Now enjoy the miscellaneous samurai cats of unknown origin in all their glory:

Food!

Ever since Veganuary and also since I’ve begun to use Yummly more and more, I have become more in love with food (vegan or otherwise). And, in turn, I have become more in love with the actual process of cooking. Cooking interesting, healthy and fresh food. Sometimes new recipes, sometimes my classic staple recipes and sometimes completely random concoctions that I’ve thrown together using whatever I have!

A lot of my food I share on Instagram – much like millions of other Instagram users. Instagram is great for sharing photos, there and then, but once you’ve posted a few more images to your account, the old ones slip somewhere into the depths of your Instagram history. So, because I don’t really want to lose all of my foodie photos I created a new Pinterest ‘board’ for them instead.

Follow Emma’s board Food! (cooked myself) on Pinterest.

Pinterest

Not sure why I haven’t shared this on my blog already, as I set up my Pinterest account back in 2014 – well, it was the end of the year, but still 2014. I’m not an addicted Pinterest user, at least not yet, but I’ve been infrequently filling up my ‘boards’ and creating new ones for the last month or so. It is a great website and useful when working on a specific design project, to gather research.

The original reason that I set my account up was to create a Japan-themed board for my Love Japan Magazine research. It was useful not just for me to gather ideas, but also for Emily, the brains behind Love Japan, to see what I had in mind for the identity.

Follow Emma’s board Japanese Influence on Pinterest.

I’ve now got a few more pinboards than just the Japanese Influence board, but it’s definitely the one with the most ‘pins’. Some of my other boards include editorial design, typography & lettering, patterns and trees.

Follow Emma's board Trees on Pinterest.