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I love Geography Designs

I love surface design, I love maths and I love geography!

I know where every country is on a world map, its flag and most of the capital cities. So to combine two of these interests, I created a the Country Hearts Flag Colours Collection. With the Olympic games giving me the idea and inspiration, as I watched the proud athletes carrying their flags. 

This stunning colour combination is Venezuela. It's so bright and festive!

It took an absolute age but I didn't want to leave any countries out, so there are a total of 195 designs. I hope I got them all, but if I have missed any please let me know!

A pillow with the Bahamas design. Don't their flag colours just make you think of beautiful blue water, sun and sandy beaches?


The design is a simple heart design in a diamond layout. The hearts are coloured in a spray pain effect using the colours of the flag of the country. I used the flags colour hexcodes and tried to incorporate all the colours of the flag in similar proportions as they have on the flag.


I love the colour combination of Ghana definitely makes me think of the warmth and rich colours of Africa.

So many beautiful colours and so many similarities, but still just a little different. I was born in the Netherlands and moved to New Zealand as a child (The Dutch Kiwi!). Both of my countries have the red, white and blue combo but you can see they are still not quite the same.

Here is a little collage of some more of my other favourite colour combinations.
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