OK, last post today as Im dashing off for a weekend at Grandma's - lots of tea and cake - woohoo! befre I go though, here are some wonderful illustrations by Meomi, aka Vicky Wong and Michael Murphy who are based in Vancouver and create these lovely illustrations and also Vicky is the author and designer behind the great series of Octonauts books!
I'm a huge fan of Helen Dardik who is such a talented illustrator and designer (I've already eatured her on the blog previously but couldnt resist blogging about her work again!) - her website is fantastic and shows so many of her great designs - I could spend hours looking at her work!
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Last, but by no means least, in this round up of Australian surface pattern designers, who all make up the Australian Fabric Mafia, is Bianca, aka Hollabee. I love her swirl print!
Next up is the talented Caitlin who works under the name of Pippijoe, another Australian Designer and also part of the Australian Fabric Mafia. I love her organic prints and the new lampshades would be just fab in my house!
Another fine Australian designer, Of Paper & Thread who also goes by the name of Danielle. I love that poppy print - it would fantastic made up as a blind for my kitchen.
...aka Shannon Lamden, another Australian based designer selling lovely fabrics. I love the little craft panels she sells on her very successful etsy site too.
My week or two of print/pattern blogging is almost up for now but it would not be complete without a post or two on a few of the fab surface pattern designers based down under! First up is Lara Cameron, whose blog I have been a fan of for a while now (check out the house on the hill post - I love that house!). I'm a big fan of the colors she uses in her fabric designs.
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Lovely, blocky bold prints from Virginia Johnson, a Canadian Designer who worked for Helmut Lang before setting up her own business. I'm especially keen on the band top (top pic).
Sarah is one of the founding members of Craft Candy, which I am a member of, creates lovely hand printed textiles which she makes up into a variety of lovely purses, mirrors, specs cases etc and also some lovely moleskin notebooks. Sarah will be exhibiting at the next Craft Candy fair at the Millennium Galleries in Sheffield in July. I will soon be putting up a bloglist of other Craft Candy members on the blog too - so keep checking back.
I just love the style of Helen Dardik's work who I found via PrintPattern, so cheerful and colorful and every time I look at one of her prints I see something new I didn't see before.
Lovely prints from Umbrella Prints based in Australia - they have an Etsy store too so go and check out their lovely prints.
Aimee Wilder is the US based creative designer behind these great wallpaper designs. Her previous clients have included Bed Bath and Beyond, Crate and Barrel, Urban Outfitters, Dwell, Dwellbaby, Martha Stewart Living, MTV Cribs, Skip Hop, and Gap Kids and more recently, Aimee signed a licensing agreement with Vans to feature three of her designs on shoes and accessories - check them out on her site.
Angie Lewin is such a wonderfully talented printmaker. I aspire to one day be able to create work like Angie's - think I've got a very long way to go yet! She is currently exhibiting at the St Jude Gallery in Itteringham in Norfolk and I nearly had heart failure (in a good way - if thats possible!) when i saw that you can now buy fabric printed with Angie's designs here.
I love Shinzi Katoh's work! I love the colors and designs and most of all the words - they make me smile because sometimes they don't quite make sense. I bought lots of Shinzi Katoh towels and stationery when I was in Japan a couple of years ago and every time I see more of his work, it always makes me want to go back there. The range of items that Shinzi Katoh's designs are applied to is huge - go and check out the cutest lunchboxes,teatrays and other goodies here.
I was having my regular read of Bloesem's lovely blog the other day when I came across these lovely lanterns and paper products from Jurianne Matter of the Netherlands. Those lanterns would be fantastic for an evening wedding do or party and the angels and boats are great interiors decorations - I've just spied the wallpaper behind the angels - its lovely!
Wow!! Lovely, lovely chairs and cushions made from vintage blankets with handstitched embroidery by Jane Schouten of All The Luck In The World - She is shortly opening a shop with her sister in The Netherlands - maybe a trip to Holland is in order!
