Sabine Reinhart

Sabine Reinhart is a busy person. In between running three websites and freelancing for companies such as Adobe, Te Neues, and Crate & Barrel, she also designs patterns. Sumptuous, elaborate, beautiful patterns.

 

 

Originally graduating with First Class Honours in Graphic Design from the Fachhochschule Duesseldorf, majoring in illustration and web design, she then found work as an art director for a large company designing websites and developing brand identities. Based between her home country of Germany and Switzerland, part of her job involved travelling to numerous other locations around the world to photograph outstanding architecture, including America and Japan.

While leading this hectic life, she started designing patterns for relaxation in her ‘spare time’. These patterns started to accumulate, and so she decided to created the site patterrific.com in order to share them. It’s a great site, with a large range of free, downloadable seamless patterns, as well as a fabulous range of links to other pattern-obsessed sites around the world. But Patterrific wasn’t enough, and so she also set about creating the site  floralcy.com as a vehicle for sharing her vector patterns as well.

 

 

 

Her “relaxation projects” lead to freelance work, and soon her work was appearing on stationery, cards and fabrics. She was then commissioned by Adobe to produce a complex work focusing on the pattern editor available in Adobe Illustrator CS6, and to write the How-To guide to accompany it. The result was the work Nature’s Journey, based on Botticelli’s Venus (a hallmark work closely associated with Illustrator), featuring many of Sabine’s own patterns. I encourage you to check it out as it’s quite wonderful –  you can find it in her portfolio, here.

 

 

Constantly inspired by nature, Sabine also admires the classic art and textiles of other cultures around the world. Combining her considerable skills as an illustrator with digital processes results in work that is crisp and beautiful, romantic and other-worldly, and filled with flowers in a palette that is cool, soft and sensual.

 

 

 

 

You can find more of Sabine’s work on her website’s gallery, www.sabinereinhart.de/gallery, on her other sites patterrific.com and floralcy.com, and in her Spoonflower shop, sabine_reinhart.