We’ve been Skinny laMinx fans for quite some time, so it was a real treat to hear from owner and head designer Heather Moore with news of the latest collection, Brise Soleil. Read on…
To kick off this year’s Surtex features we are featuring the work of surface pattern and graphic designer (and Textile Design Lab member!) Kevin Brackley, who will be exhibiting at…
As pattern designers we often look to two-dimensional patterns and designs for inspiration, often ignoring the potential inspiration in those three-dimensional works of art around us. In today’s…
All photos by Janelle Bendycki Savannah Hayes is a textile designer based in Pittsburgh, PA. She recently launched her first collection of products, which include fabric by the yard,…
It’s always exciting to see what past featured designers have been up to, and we are delighted to welcome back London-based textile designer Amelia Graham (first featured on Pattern Observer here a…
Series on the history of surface design by Julie Gibbons. I discovered Athos Bulcão (1918-2008) quite by chance, when I was pinning something of his on Pinterest (I…
Jiah Harrison is a textile artist and the designer/ maker behind Elephant & Rose. She recently launched a new product line focusing on a small range of scarves, cards,…
As part of our online learning community, the Textile Design Lab, we share pattern design tutorials to introduce new techniques and concepts and help give our students an edge…
Carolina’s “Ethnic Spring” collection Carolina Abarca is a former research scientist, originally from Chile and now leaving near Barcelona with her husband and two children. She describes her…
It is such a treat to share “overlap,” a fascinating project from today’s featured designer, Ildikó Valicsek. “Overlap is a layered pattern system, 5 basic layers which can generate more…
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