Dark Wonder Collection
This surface pattern collection was designed based on a 2017 trend from WGSN called Dark Wonder. Themes include outer space, …
Category Archives: Art and Design
Make it in Design Winter School 2017
So this year was the first year that Make it in Design ran their Winter School. It follows the same format …
Make it in Design Summer School 2016 and Pattern Bombing Paris
This year I participated in the Make it in Design Summer School 2016. For those of you who have never …
Harrogate Home and Gift Buyer’s Festival 2016
This year I went along to the Harrogate Home and Gift Buyer’s Festival to get a look at some of …
Creative Exercise: Take a Walk
Part 1: Take your camera and/or your sketchbook and just walk around your local area, taking snaps of anything that …
Design Inspiration – Woodland in May
I went to a local woodland park on the hunt for more design inspiration. Please feel free to use these …
Design Finds – May 2016
As a surface pattern designer it’s good for me to get out in the field and see what’s out and …
Design Inspiration – Whitby
Sometimes being a designer we spend too long sat at the computer. I like to try and get out now …
My Biggest Compromise with The Water Dragons
There’s a famous writing saying that gets banded around the internet: It means that sometimes, no matter how much you …
Book Cover Design – Short Story
What do you think of this cover design? It’s for my short story ‘free’ which was originally called ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ but …