Inspiring: LEMONNI {Annie Chen – surface design}

Annie Chen aka LEMONNI is about to exhibit at her first Surtex – and she’s a bit excited about it. If you’re a surface designer, Surtex is an enormous opportunity to get your work in front of the people that matter to your business – licencing...

Inspiring : Nouveau Bohemian {surface design}

With a “background that is ridiculously unrelated to what I do now”, Esther Fallon Lau produces gorgeously diverse patterns, full of whimsical creatures and fairytale people in soft textures and colours. Under the name Nouveau Bohemian, she spreads her...

Inspiring : Sarah Bagshaw {surface design}

  It was while studying at art college that UK designer Sarah Bagshaw had her first serious encounter with pattern love. It all started when her Mum gave her some patterned 1960s bath towels that she’d had as a child; and Sarah’s work abruptly altered...

Inspiring : JulesAndInk {Julia Pellizzari}

Julia {aka JulesAndInk} Pellizzari’s favourite piece of advice was given to her when she was first venturing out into surface pattern design for herself. “I was reminded that no matter what, always keep moving forward with your passion and what it is you...

Music + pictures 5 : Kooks

Music + pictures {or even more simply, “music pictures”} is a collection of beautiful from around the interwebs while I’m on holidays for January – at the beach, camping, with my family. Have a fab New Year, and I’ll be back on the 1st...