Excuse the dust! I’m rebuilding Pitter Pattern from the ground up to bring it into the 21st century… Easier to navigate and packed with resources that are actually useful. That’s why things look a little bare at the moment.
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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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Ok, so I have a confession to make… I’m addicted… To Skillshare classes!
I’ve been a member of Skillshare for a few years now and my compulsion for finding and joining their fabulous classes hasn’t dwindled, if anything it’s increased. Any minute I have free I’ll be glued to my iPad learning new tricks. This can be while I’m having breakfast/lunch, while relaxing on the sofa (tv doesn’t do it for me anymore) or, let’s be open, on the loo, as I don’t like the feeling that my life is flushing away down the toilet ;-).
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Issue 9 of Moyo magazine is out now!
Moyo is the world’s first magazine dedicated to surface pattern design, brought to you by the founders of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design and Make it in Design, Beth Nicholls and Rachael Taylor (Moyo is Japanese for ‘pattern’ and is pronounced mo-yor). Best of all, it’s completely free. Read on…
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WHO:
All The Fruits is a multi-disciplinary creative studio formed in London and now based in Bologna, Italy. It was founded by illustrator Stephen Cheetham and interior designer Jessica Pinotti.
WHAT:
Their focus is surface design, working either to commission or on their self-initiated range of products, wallpapers and prints.
I found just by chance one of the most beautiful silk scarf collections I’ve seen in a long time. Odellin is a newly launched Amsterdam-based fashion accessories label, specialising in bold, expressive, modern fashion scarves.
The prints are an assembly of gorgeous and playful geometrics in the most delicious and striking colour palettes.
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