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Category: Inspiration

  • 17 free textures that can help your designs kick ass

    17 free textures that can help your designs kick ass

    Are you a little bit obsessed with textures and patterns? Are you always the one pointing out ‘that cool pattern there’ or ‘this pretty texture here’? I know I am, and if you’re here in the Pitter Pattern blog I’m guessing you are too.

    I went on holiday to Colombia (my native country) last summer and while I was there I took many photos of gorgeous surfaces in the wild, and I thought I could share some of them with you… So in this blog post you’re getting 17 free textures that you can use to enrich your surface pattern designs!

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  • The new Print & Pattern book: Nature

    The new Print & Pattern book: Nature

    I’ve got you a Christmas present… I managed to get my hands on an early review copy, kindly supplied by the publisher, of the new Print & Pattern book: Nature, and I’m gonna give you a little preview to get you salivating!

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  • Colour and patterns in nature · Felix Salazar

    Colour and patterns in nature · Felix Salazar

    I found this amazing collection of photographs, Macro Reef Dwellers: A Retrospective, by Felix Salazar and had to share them with you. Colour and patterns in nature, you might agree, are a great source of inspiration.

    I’ve also created a colour palette for each photograph which you are very welcome to use in your own designs if you like them.

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  • Emporio Armani’s autumn/winter 2016/17 collection

    Emporio Armani’s autumn/winter 2016/17 collection

    How gorgeous is Emporio Armani’s autumn/winter 2016/17 ready-to-wear collection, with its nod to the digital world? Loving the contrast between the dark backgrounds and the gorgeous colours on those geometric shapes. Seriously minimalistic prints that really catch your eye!

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  • The vibrant paintings of Yago Hortal

    The vibrant paintings of Yago Hortal

    Yago Hortal’s sensational acrylic neon paintings have me completely mesmerised!

    Yago is an award-winning artist, born in Barcelona, Spain in 1983. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions, and international art fairs around the world.

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