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)

A designers dream bundle by Going home to Roost

I have recently signed up to join the Roost Tribe, for those of you who haven't yet come across this it is a wonderful little bundle of goodies that are sent to you via e-mail a few times a month.  I love designing and although I can design my own patterns and motifs, the ideas that Bonnie Christie sends through the Roost Tribe spark off a lot of ideas in me and I can feel myself getting inspired as soon as I see the email in my inbox.

My favourite part of the September package (You can see below everything that was sent to the Roost Tribe members in September) was that she shared her story with us, it was so inspiring and it has given me hope that as a small individual designer fresh out of university, I too can succeed.  Hearing of her struggles and the journey she has been on as a creative was just what I needed to hear.  It has helped me realise that this journey won't be easy, but if I put the time, effort and passion that I have for designing into it then it will be worth it.

The best part is that all of this only costs $5 a month (£3.18)
Sign up here
Here is a sneak peek at what we got in September:

Here you can see roughly what type of goodies you will get each month:

Along with all of the above you also get access to all of the below!

Sign up here

Quirky hand drawn style

While I was doing my final university project I came across a lovely artist, Betty Charlie, who has a quirky hand drawn style.  Her colour palettes are quite muted and they work well with her drawings, they keep the focus on the beautifully intricate drawings.  I love that they are not perfect and are a little messy, but still have smaller details giving her drawings amore depth and taking them to the next level.  She also incorporates stitch and tactile elements into her work, which just makes it that much more fascinating.  Here are a few of her designs that really stand out for me:

Working on my logo

So I've decided to try and make myself a logo that I can start using or at least make a header for my blog which is a little more me.  I definitely think they still need a lot of work and keep in mind these aren't the final designs.

Any thoughts on making them better? Or which one works the best.

Pantone's Pinterest Colour Competition

Today's post is all about colour.  Pantone is currently running a lovely little Pinterest competition, they posted the image below and the idea is to choose one out of the ten spring 2013 colours. 

A board on Pinterest full of one particular colour is extremely effective.  Using Pinterest is a brilliant way to build up boards of different colour palettes, you can see how colours work together and they are much easier to see how they would be incorporated into one of your designs.  It’s also a fantastic way of collecting inspirational ideas.  I personally love to sew and make so have collected tons of ideas…which I will eventually get around to doing.

Below you can see my board for the Pantone competition, and below that a few other examples of a couple of the other colours, don’t you agree they look pretty effective? =)

 Meg Berry's Linen Board

 MixedMedia Jewel's Violet Board