{"id":26013,"date":"2015-07-07T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=26013"},"modified":"2024-04-09T00:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T07:37:44","slug":"this-guys-turns-coffee-stains-into-little-monsters-and-its-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/this-guys-turns-coffee-stains-into-little-monsters-and-its-awesome","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Turns Coffee Stains into Little Monsters and It&#039;s Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&acirc;&euro;&trade;ll never look at coffee stains the same way again. They&acirc;&euro;&trade;ll no longer be icky brown blobs, but an opportunity for creation &acirc;&euro;&rdquo; or at least that&acirc;&euro;&trade;s how Hamburg-based designer Stefan Kuhnigk sees it.<br \/>\nThis is the story as he tells it,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/i-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> via BoredPanda<\/a>: &acirc;&euro;&oelig;Once upon a time there was a little copywriter (that is me, Stefan), who spilled a cup of coffee. What emerged from the depth of the darkest espresso available was a small monster. It looked at me and said: &acirc;&euro;&tilde;Draw me, draw me, draw meeee!&acirc;&euro;&trade; And then I drew.&acirc;&euro;<br \/>\nStefan has created more than 485 Coffee Monsters to date, and he even adds an excerpt to give us a bit of a background on each.<br \/>\nDon&acirc;&euro;&trade;t be fooled by their smiles &acirc;&euro;&rdquo; these are vicious human-eating creatures, even if they are sometimes opera singers or body builders. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/thecoffeemonsters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coffeemonsters Instagram<\/a> to read each monster&acirc;&euro;&trade;s story!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234556\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.11__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26040\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234559\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.8__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26039\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234602\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.7__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26038\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234605\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.6__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"615\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26037\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234609\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26034\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234612\/11017630_780974368617642_598525497_n__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26031\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234615\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.20__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26030\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234618\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.17__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26027\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234622\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.16__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26026\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234625\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.15__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26025\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234629\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.14__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26024\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234632\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.2__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26017\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234635\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.1__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26016\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234638\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.18__605.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26028\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234641\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.13__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"604\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26042\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2015\/07\/08234644\/I-draw-coffee-monsters-from-random-coffee-stains.12__6051.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26041\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&acirc;&euro;&trade;ll never look at coffee stains the same way again. 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