Pattern weekend

Here is this mornings pattern work, developed from some of the illustrations I created yesterday.

I've also been adding to my Pattern Pinterest board, and stumbled across the brilliant work Sonia Delaunay, an artist working with pattern at the beginning of the 20th century.

Sonia Delaunay

Patterns

It's been a long time since I've posted new work on the blog, mostly because I now have an online portfolio which has pretty much replaced my need for a blog. The only thing a portfolio website misses is work in progress, so I've decided to bring the blog out of hibernation to show some of the surface design and patterns I have designed recently. I have been creating patterns as a hobby since 2008 and I realised today that most of them have just sat in folders on my hard drive. Below are a range of my recent patterns, including a couple of illustrations for repeat patterns.

Pinterest and the rest

Look at these wonderful geometric compositions from the New York Public Library online collection. I came across them through Pinterest, which is a very useful way of finding, storing and sharing inspiration (and procrastinating). My Pinterest boards are here.

I haven't been updating this blog with all the little bits and bobs I've been up to for quite some time. I unintentionally let it float into the internet ether, and now it seems there are other things taking up it's place. I have started a new screen printing project which I will blog about here when the time is right, but until then (and probably afterwards) there will be much more action on...
my website
my pinterest
my flickr
my twitter
and the blog I write for the UCA Epsom Print Area

Withdrawn zines

Scandinavian Domestic Design

Industrial Design & the Community

Cities, Their Origin, Growth and Human Impact

Canonic Design in English Mediaeval Architecture

Each zine folds out into a different poster celebrating the Withdrawn series

Withdrawn is a set of zines created from books rejected by the University for the Creative Arts library in Epsom. The books had their covers torn off and branded with WITHDRAWN. They were found in the tip by tutors who saved them and the hundreds of others being thrown out. The covers were left in tact and the books found themselves on a table ready to be taken away by passers by. Each Withdrawn zine features one of these rejected books. I have re-ordered and re-edited the books to eight pages each chosen for their visual merit and each one folds out to a different poster celebrating the Withdrawn series. 

My new online portfolio...

is here!