Image courtesy of Rachael Taylor Designs |
Monday 28 January 2013
Lovely feature on Rachael Taylor's blog
I was thrilled to be featured on the lovely Rachael Taylor's blog today. I can't thank Rachael and Beth enough for the brilliant course I completed last year 'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design.' I highly recommend it if you're interested in the world of pattern design. You can see the post here. Thanks Rachael!
Thursday 10 January 2013
Bloghop 2013!
Hello, and welcome to my blog! If you are on the bloghop today you will have joined me from the wonderful, quirky world of jookiku, the creation of Julianne Hall who is based in Australia. If you've just found the hop you can start from the beginning at Pattern Addict's blog.
I'm a Surface Pattern Designer based in London. I love design from the 50s, Lucienne Day, MirĂ³, Scandinavian design, and am drawn to the colourful and abstract. My patterns invariably contain hand-drawn elements, and simple shapes. At the moment I seem to be slightly obsessed with the triangle, which has a starring role in the mini collection I've created for this bloghop. As you will know by now, the collection was created using Pantone Colour of the Year, Emerald, and based on the theme 'Let's Fly.'
Here they are, I hope you like them!
Now, seeing as this hop is a celebration of the new year I thought I'd share a few of my goals for 2013. After launching my website last November I plan to start approaching some of the companies I'd love to work with, and to actively pursue licensing opportunities.
I am also looking to produce my own line of products. I'm currently in the process of researching manufacturers, and I have to say it's exhausting, but exciting!
And I will make sure I do a lot of designing! That is the fun part, and what I love to do, and sometimes it can be easy to forget when you're concentrating on the business side of things.
There, now I have made myself even more accountable :-)
I'm really looking forward to the year ahead, and to seeing what it will bring.
Thank you for visiting! Now to continue on with the hop pop along to Ellie Fidler's blog at http://www.joyfuldogblog.com. Ellie is a designer based in Berkeley, California, and I know she has some lovely designs to show you.
And lastly, a big thank you to Rosie Martinez-Dekker of Believe Creative Studio for curating this bloghop.
I'm a Surface Pattern Designer based in London. I love design from the 50s, Lucienne Day, MirĂ³, Scandinavian design, and am drawn to the colourful and abstract. My patterns invariably contain hand-drawn elements, and simple shapes. At the moment I seem to be slightly obsessed with the triangle, which has a starring role in the mini collection I've created for this bloghop. As you will know by now, the collection was created using Pantone Colour of the Year, Emerald, and based on the theme 'Let's Fly.'
Here they are, I hope you like them!
A little inspiration... |
Flying High |
The Emerald Forest |
Minty |
I am also looking to produce my own line of products. I'm currently in the process of researching manufacturers, and I have to say it's exhausting, but exciting!
And I will make sure I do a lot of designing! That is the fun part, and what I love to do, and sometimes it can be easy to forget when you're concentrating on the business side of things.
There, now I have made myself even more accountable :-)
I'm really looking forward to the year ahead, and to seeing what it will bring.
Thank you for visiting! Now to continue on with the hop pop along to Ellie Fidler's blog at http://www.joyfuldogblog.com. Ellie is a designer based in Berkeley, California, and I know she has some lovely designs to show you.
And lastly, a big thank you to Rosie Martinez-Dekker of Believe Creative Studio for curating this bloghop.
Wednesday 9 January 2013
The Little White Book
Image courtesy of Gill Eggleston/Pattern Addict |
The Little White Book was curated by Gill Eggleston of Pattern Addict, whose great idea this was, and who has put so much time and effort into making this directory come together. Thank you Gill!
Click here to browse The Little White Book!
Tuesday 8 January 2013
Coming Thursday...
I'm excited to be taking part in a bloghop with around 50 designers from around the world. We will all be creating patterns inspired by Pantone Colour of the Year, Emerald, and the theme 'Let's Fly.' Each designer will create their post and link to the person behind and in front of them enabling you to hop around the world to see what everyone creates. The bloghop starts at 2pm (GMT) this Thursday opening at Pattern Addict's blog. I do hope you'll join us!
Thursday 3 January 2013
Happy New Year!
And below, I put together a little collection of designs for Madeleine who loves to draw patterns herself, and is very good too!
And here you can see the finished products, I hope you like them!
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