Surface design : Maria Speyer

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“It took many years, decades, for me to muster up the courage to call myself an artist, let alone attempt to make a living out of it, so my business has emerged and developed very slowly indeed.” So says Danish-born Maria Speyer, former architect, and now...

Surface design : Lisa Barbero

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Lisa Barbero’s small scale repeats are constructed from simple graphic elements, in a palette of soft pink, grey and mustard, often with lots of bright, lemony yellow brightening and bringing it all together. It’s clean and simple and happy; there’s...

Surface design : Stoflab

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Influenced by the fabulous minimalism of iconic author and illustrator Dick Bruna,  Stoflab is happiest of all with few colours, and even fewer forms to create his boldly striking repeats.     Occasionally, intentionally, he includes noise – a bit of...

Surface design : Melissa Kelman

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Melissa Kelman creates sweet, bright florals for surface design and stationery from her small loft that she shares with her husband in Brooklyn, and told me she had been making cards for friends and family ever since she was small.     “Sometimes I...

Surface design : Zoe Ingram

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Zoe Ingram has a thing about circles. They appear, in one form or another, in just about every design she produces. Hand drawn and vector, dots and spots, circles within circles, mandalas and kaleidoscopes, all in gloriously vibrant colour. And it is her skilful use...