Posts by Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart is a Staff Writer and Video Editor at My Modern Met. She earned a BA in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Berlin for many years, where she fostered a career in the arts, dabbling in everything from illustration and animation to music and ceramics. She now calls Edinburgh home, where she continues to work as a writer, illustrator, and ceramicist. Her ceramics, often combined with hand-painted animation frames, capture playful scenes that celebrate freedom and movement, and blend her passion for art with storytelling. Her illustrations have been featured in The Berliner Magazine as well as other print magazines and a poetry book.
Drawing
March 20, 2020

Artist Purrfectly Blends Cats Into Minimalist Landscape Illustrations

Many of us have tried looking for shapes in the clouds, but what about entire landscapes? Kuala Lumpur-based artist Lim Heng Swee (aka ilovedoodle) creates graphic illustrations depicting cats that seamlessly blend into mountains, waves, and skylines. Swee’s playful Cat Landscape series of minimalist illustrations look like depictions of an otherworldly cat planet. He playfully takes inspiration from Japanese painters like the great Hokusai.

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Design
March 12, 2020

Indoor Cat Towers Made From Real Trees Provide a Lifelike Outdoor Experience for Feline Friends

Despite being called “cat trees,” most indoor, multi-level scratchers don’t look anything like forest foliage. That’s until Shelley and Joe DelRocco stepped in. The Florida-based husband and wife duo create custom pet tree houses handcrafted from real trees and embellished with silk leaves. Each piece provides a life-like, outdoor experience for our feline friends—and they also make aesthetically-pleasing house plants (that you’ll never have to water).

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My Modern Met

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