Surface Pattern Design

Surface Pattern Design · 10. December 2021

Pantone Color of the Year 2022

It's here... That time of the year... No, not Christmas! Well, that too. But I'm talking about the first week of December, the time of the year in which Pantone announces the Color of the Year. Many designers and color-lovers start analyzing, making guesses and bets the days prior to the announcement. And since color is so subjective and personal, many will love the announced color, many will hate it.

Surface Pattern Design · 16. November 2021

Patterns and Alleys

Creating a balanced pattern can be quite challenging. Especially when the repeat is obvious or we see "alleys". What are these? In this blog post, I'll tell you a bit about them and show you ways of fixing or avoiding them.

Surface Pattern Design · 10. November 2021

Patterns & Scale

Scale is another big aspect you have to consider when you see, create or present patterns. It's also a pain point for some, taking us back to those dreadful math lessons at school. And don't even get me started with inches and centimeters conversions! There are several factors to consider before you set the scale of a composition though. Nothing is written on stone, as always, but here are just a couple of things to know about scale.

Surface Pattern Design · 23. December 2020

5 Ways to level-up Patterns (Part II: Composition)

In this blog post, I show you some ideas to work with the background such as background texture, filling gaps, adding shadows, a simple and a complex pattern-in-pattern technique and why not, combining some of them.

Surface Pattern Design · 16. December 2020

5 Ways to level-up Patterns (Part I: Background)

When I first started making textile repeating patterns, I was just happy when they repeated perfectly. After a while my expectations got up and wasn't happy anymore with "just a pattern". I decided to experiment different ways of adding something *extra* to the pattern to make them more special and eye-catching. Here are 5 ideas worth trying.

Surface Pattern Design · 09. December 2020

Pantone Color of the Year 2021

Surface Pattern Design · 18. November 2020

How to complete a pattern collection with prints and embroideries?

Let me show you how prints and embroideries can complete your collection with an example: a Baby Clothing Collection.

Surface Pattern Design · 11. November 2020

How to create a cohesive pattern collection?

What makes a pattern collection look cohesive? Let me tell you about the aspects that need to be considered when creating a pattern collection.

Surface Pattern Design · 04. November 2020

From Print to Pattern - a Case Study

In this blog post, I will show you my process for creating a pattern from a print taking one of my latest and favorites pattern as an example.

Surface Pattern Design · 09. September 2020

The different kinds of Patterns

Let me show you the most common kinds of patterns out there. We can group them by various aspects, I chose three different approaches: Patterns by types of composition, by style and by complexity.