A mountain of inspiration to share with you!

I've been collecting bits of paper and patterned designs for a while now and didn't know what to do with it all.  I couldn't bare to throw any of them away, you never know when these things may come in handy (I'm pretty sure Matthew is rolling his eyes right about now....).  So before any of my little findings got (accidentally....ye) thrown in the bin I've complied a new inspiration journal that I can dip into if I'm ever stuck for ideas.  I know Pinterest is a good source of inspiration and I do dive into that if I need a nudge in a specific design direction.  I like to be able to put together boards around a certain theme when I'm working to a brief or competition guidelines.  It's nice to have something solid and in your hands to flick through sometimes.

Take a peek

Geometric legging design

Today I whipped up this little design for the Front Row Society design competition, the theme was geometric vs tribal, so I went with geometric and spent the day developing this design.  We had a colour palette given to us so the colours chosen were the ones I had to work with.

Here is the page with my design on, the design hasn't come out as sharp as it is so you can see the pattern below more clearly and see how it would look on the leggings by following this link

Innes Mcdougall's stunning paintings

Here is an artist I came across this week and I was amazed at how beautiful these paintings are, they have definitely inspired me to get my watercolours out.  I showcased more amazing watercolour pieces in a previous blog post here.

Innes also paints almost photographic quality pieces but it was these paintings of eyes and lips that drew me in, leaving the majority of the page white made them dramatic.  The use of colour also drew me to them, I love bright colours and it definitely makes these paintings more interesting to looks at.  Innes has been able to show a lot of different emotions through just painting the eyes, it is interesting to see how this is done as you can see below.

Patterns for boys

I've recently designed a collection for boys which I wanted to share with you today.  I was lucky enough to have someone to show my designs to who happened to be perfect for this particular brief.  My little brother approved of my designs before I sent them off and gave me very honest feedback, he loved them all and is now wanting his room full of these patterns.

The theme was vehicles and I knew straight away I wanted to focus on farming machines.  Having grown up on a farm and having a little brother who absolutely adores anything related to farming it seemed like the logical choice.

Patterns on the Farm

Harvest Time

A bit of pattern research

While I was out shopping I kept coming across patterns and inspiration for crafts and designs, so thought I'd share my findings with you and hopefully inspire a few.

A little market research has given me a lot of inspiration and a few ideas for Christmas pressies for the family =)

Iconemesis iphone case submissions

Hello all,

I entered a designer open call to the amazing company Iconemesis.

They collaborate with lots of talented designers to produce some very unique cases, so when I heard they were having an open call I got my designs ready and sent them over pronto. You can see their blog post with my designs here.

You can see them below, what do you think?

Little peek at some new designs

I've been working on a brief recently (which I'm sad to say I cannot reveal anything about), but have also managed to produce a few other pieces aswell.  I'll keep this short and just have a showcase of my newest designs.

Enjoy! (and any feeback will be greatly appriciated)