Featured ‘Black Friday’ Design: Seamless Watercolor Floral Pattern With Leaves by Yana Andreeva
Featured Designers is a curated collection of outstanding artists that caught our team’s eye. Here we select designers that tick design criteria that includes – professional files, commercial edge, on-trend design uploads, outstanding creativity & a beautiful collection of designs for your product needs. View all Featured Designers on our online textile studio.
In 3 words describe your pattern design style?
Colourful, modern and fun.
What is your work & design process?
I like to use watercolour inks and fine liners for detail. I also like to use floral photography in some of my designs. I then put everything together in Photoshop.
Where do you find your design inspiration?
I closely follow catwalk trends and fashion reports. I am often inspired by fresh flowers, nature and different textures. I like to be experimental with my paint and media.
What advice would you give to new designers?
Experiment as much as you can with media and technique. You don’t need to have all your ideas planned out before hand.
Patternbank brings you our in-depth catwalk report highlighting the key Spring/Summer 2021 Print and Pattern trends from the recent runway shows & collections. The team has gathered information from the designer’s collections and compiled a selection of the most prominent print looks trending for SS21 together with an insight into the key colours for the season. This is the essential Print Catwalk analysis trend report for every brand, designer, and studio.
Check out our selection of the strongest print & pattern collections from the recent SS21 runway shows. Includes: Christian Dior, Christopher Kane, Dolce &Gabbana, Dries Van Noten, Etro, Fendi, Kenzo, Libertine, Matty Bovan, Prada, Preen, Valentino & Zimmerman.
We are currently working on the Spring/Summer 2021 Catwalk trends report, which will be live on the site soon.
Magic Mushrooms: Foraged fungi from botanical clusters and illustrative toadstools to psychedelic technicolour fungus.
This Autumn/Winter 21/22 print and pattern trend explores the magical world of woodland fungi. Detailed botanical studies and earthy all over prints with eclectic book illustrations and technicolour magic mushrooms. Browse our extensive selection of exclusively licensed prints, from both stock and premium pattern designs in our online textile design studio.
The Patternbank team visited the @fashiontextilemuseum this week to see ‘Out of the Blue: Fifty Years of Designers Guild’. Worth a visit if you’re in London and need some creative inspiration.
💙Out of the Blue celebrates the work of influential design company Designers Guild. Founded by Tricia Guild OBE, Designers Guild started life in 1970 as a small section of a single shop in Chelsea’s Kings Road. The brand has since evolved and grown into a global enterprise, whose products have changed the way we view colour, pattern and texture in our homes. Exhibition is on till 21 February 2021.
Doodle Dash: Skater Cartoons and Graphics Mix with Energetic Doodles, for a New Street Art Scene
‘Trend Flash’ is our new seasonless collection of print and pattern trends that will help you keep ahead of the competition.
Technicolour Tribe: Exploring and experimenting with creativity, tie dye experiences an ongoing revival
Inspired by patterns of the Nordic Countries, this A/W 21/22 trend is a bold mix of folk styles. Bright pops of colour contrast with dark backgrounds for drama.
STRONG CONTRASTS / NORDIC PATTERNS / FAIR ISLE STRIPES / SCANDI ETHNIC / LEAF MOTIFS / COLOURFUL ETHNICS / DARK BACKGROUNDS / BRAID EMBROIDERY / FOLK STYLE
An eclectic mix of ethnic border patterns and tiled layouts inspire this Autumn/Winter 21/22 print trend. Now Live on the site.
MOROCCAN TILE PATTERNS / PAISLEY BORDERS / ETHNIC GEOMETRIC EDGINGS / PERSIAN RUG PATTERNS / INDIENNE SHAWL LAYOUTS / ARABESQUE BORDER DESIGNS
Patternbank recently teamed up with Leeds Arts University to run a Spring / Summer 2021 Live brief for the BA (Hons) Textile Design students. Students had the choice of three SS21 Patternbank trends: Tropical Chaos, Pattern Contrast & Strange Surfaces. A big congratulation to all the students that took part – amazing work & effort!
Bold abstract shapes and cut out pattern are crafted together in this inspirational A/W21/22 trend. Collaged layouts create new depths of interest.
COLLAGE OVERLAYS / ABSTRACT SHAPES / MIXED MEDIA / VARIED TEXTURES / PAPER CUT-OUT SHAPES / LAYERED PHOTOCOPIES / SIMPLE COLLAGE
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Bold monochromatic floral cut-outs with pops of vibrant colour and over-scaled floral studies in tonal palettes are the inspiration behind this Autumn/Winter 2021/22 print trend.
BOLD CUT-OUTS / OVER-SCALED BLOOMS / MONOCHROMATIC FLORALS / DETAILED FLORAL STUDIES / TONAL PALETTES / ARTISTIC FLORAL LAYOUTS / COLOUR POPS / SIMPLISTIC FLORAL SILHOUETTES
Art Deco styled florals and pattern take on a new twist for Autumn / Winter 21/22. Touches of gold and contrasting outlines emphasise this highly decorative trend.
HIGHLY STYLISED FLORALS / DEFINED OUTLINE / SOLID COLOUR / FLOWING GEOMETRIC / DECORATIVE PLACEMENTS / ART DECO PATTERN
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The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often viewed as traditional, unchanging and timeless, but this exhibition counters that conception. The Kimono is seen as highly dynamic and and the exhibition reveals its sartorial influence on pop stars from David Bowie to Björk and examining the ways in which fashion designers such as Issey Miyake, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen have reworked its legacy. The exhibition runs until 21 June 2020 at The V&A, see more.
