illustrations | Doodles and Daydreams

Been spending time with a big stack of dull textbooks and an even bigger pile of notes. Maybe that’s what inspired me to whip out my laptop and look for some old-school nostalgia and travel ads. And the gems I ended up uncovering were more than enough to make my day.

For the love of all things vintage and travel-ish, I present to you this AMAZING collection of vintage travel posters I found. Don’t you wish posters today still looked like this?

New York.

Italy. I love that vespa. And the girl looks like she’s having so much fun!

The Caribbean. Check out that skirt and its frills.

Chicago. Absolutely loving the tagline. Chicago: The Windy City.

Bali. Exotic and mysterious?

Mexico. Yummy yummy fruits.

Paris. Fabulous montage. That Mona Lisa sure did catch my eye.

Siam. Or Thailand as it’s known today. Loving the twilight hue of the poster.

Cuba. Sunny and Beachy.

Hawaii. Of flowers and pineapples.

Lugano. I want to wear a pink dress and lie in a tree too!

Ticino. In Italy. This just became one of my favourite posters.

So there are plenty more posters that I found, but these are just some of those that really caught my eye. Now I feel like I HAVE to travel to all these places. Do you have a favourite poster out of all these jewels?

Let me introduce this little girl called Belle, and her adorable bunny friend Boo.

I love the feeling you get when you discover a new, beautiful thing. And I did, in the form of Belle and Boo, a collection of prints and illustrations dreamed up in the wonderful mind of illustrator Mandy Sutcliffe.

The World of Belle and Boo invites you to step back into childhood fantasies and delights, into that age of imagination and innocence that we all crave to revisit. I fell in love with these wonderfully quirky illustrations the minute I set eyes upon them…what’s not to love? The gallery below showcases just a few of my favorite prints from the collection. Browse, and escape back into your childhood dreams. 🙂