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Category: Software & Apps

Sale alert: time to snatch up Repper, the amazing pattern-making app!

Hello lovely pattern lover. How is your end of the year going? Are you ready for Christmas? I’m definitely not! I’ve been running like a headless chicken the last few weeks (months?), getting my shop, Republic of Happy, ready for the festive season. Who would have thought that running a product-based business needed so much planning!

Black Friday is just around the corner, and even though I tend to avoid the noise of the whole thing, the are some deals you just can’t ignore. This is one of them. And if you like making patterns, you’re gonna love it too…
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24/11/2021
Beat your creative block with Repper, an awesome pattern-making app

I think you’re gonna love what I’m sharing with you today!

The other day I got contacted by Wouter from Studio Ludens. He and his partner Alex are the creators of Repper, a web app to create patterns on the fly. He wanted some feedback on the app, and to do some research on how it would fit into the workflow of a surface pattern designer. I fell in love with the app in about 5 minutes…
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21/11/2019
10 things you need to know about the Pantone Studio app

You might already know that I’m absolutely crazy about colour, and in my endless search for the perfect colour palette, I come across a multitude of resources, offline and online, good, not so good and plain bad…

One of my all time favourites is Pantone Studio, an iOS app for colour inspiration and management, created by Pantone, a provider of professional colour standards and digital solutions under a universal language.
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12/09/2017
Design patterns easily with these 10 creative resources

I remember a few years ago when I started designing patterns… It was a fairly steep learning curve to learn all the pattern making techniques. I wished then that we, budding surface pattern designers, had more affordable resources to help us take those first steps, design patterns easily and see results a bit quicker.

Times have changed and surface pattern design has become more popular, thus more and more resources are being created that help us streamline the pattern design process, e.g. the pattern maker feature in Adobe Illustrator. In this post, I’ll share with you some of these resources…
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08/02/2017
Pattern Camp with Jessica Swift

Today I have for you a pattern workshop run by designer and artist Jessica Swift. So, if you’ve been wanting to dip your toes in the wonderful world of surface pattern design, this is your chance.

Pattern Camp is a virtual, online 2-day, weekend-long pattern design workshop taught by full-time artist and surface pattern designer, Jessica Swift. Participants will leave the workshop with the confidence and skills to create their own beautiful repeat patterns using both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
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14/12/2015