Yay!!!! I finally got myself organised and got myself a new website with the help of my boyfriend (who designed it) and Applebox Designs (who did all the tech bit and the online design). There are workshops, tutorials, surface pattern design and more to have a gander at on there so go check it out the new Bettyjoy website here and let me know what you think.
I had an email from a lovely lady called Michelle McClelland who has recently started her freelance company offering a surface pattern design service. Michelle has previously worked as a designer for 6 years working on kidswear, nightwear, underwear and more recently, homewares. She has always been passsionate about print and decided to become freelance to pursue her dream. Since freelancing Michelle now designs prints and graphics for greetings cards, ceramics, interiors and fashion. She is looking for potential clients to work with who like her style. You can visit her blog at http://michellemcclellanddesign.blogspot.com/ to see some more examples of her work.
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!
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Bonbonkakku is a pioneering Finnish net store where you can design your own fabrics. If your design is a success, it will be also sold on the site. Every fabric designed on the site will be published on the site for viewers to see and vote for. Bonbonkakku then choose the fabrics to sell on our store based on the results of viewers voting.
of my patterns. I promise that's all for now:) I'm hoping to be able to take on freelance surface pattern work and provide work for licencing soon - just need to make the patterns look a bit better and master illustrator a bit better! More prints below.
I've been trying working on some patterns for surface design recently. Its something I love doing and I'm going to be trying to post more in the near future. Unfortunately when i upload the images, the color tends to dull a bit for some reason - If anyone has any suggestions as to how to overcome this, please do let me know:)
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).
