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Jessica Grady – Embellished and Recycled

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Patternbank recently discovered the eye-catching and vibrant embellishments of Leeds based textile artist Jessica Grady. We wanted to find out more so we asked her about herself and what influences her designs and techniques.

I am a contemporary embroidery artist who works from my home studio just outside of Leeds, West Yorkshire. My colourful and highly tactile work has been exhibited in various galleries and publications across the UK and Europe and I am also a member of the Crafts Council’s Makers directory. Recently I have been awarded the 2018 Embroiderers Guild Scholar award.

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Vision 4: Autumn/Winter 2019/20 Print & Pattern Trend Report

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Welcome to Patternbank’s fourth print and pattern trend report for Autumn/Winter 2019/20

We aim to innovate and inspire you and your team so you are ahead of the curve for new developments. We’re delivering a collection of inspiring and directional trend reports throughout the season. Each Vision trend alert contains 3 key seasonal print trends. Each trend theme includes an over-arching directional mood page, 2 print direction pages, and 2 colour usage pages.

Vision 4: AW19–20 Print Trend Themes
From Nature / Woodland Gothic / White Out Blooms

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Preta Wolzak – Explorers, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

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Patternbank recently discovered the work of Amsterdam based artist Preta Wolzak. We asked her to share some information about herself and her latest projects. Wolzak studied Monumental Design at the Gerrit Rietveldacademie from 1986-1991. Since then she has worked on commission in applied arts: she has made illustrations for book covers, designed and made furniture, designed exhibitions, designed interiors for private people and companies. Since 2008 she has been making jewellery under the name Fortblink, and in 2013 she opened her creative store Old Fort On Dun on Oudeschans in Amsterdam. These images are from a selection of her recent collections Ma Petit Inuite, Everybody Needs A Hero and Arctic Charade, all of which share a common theme of the sometimes negative impact humans inflict on our planet causing pollution and the devastating effects of climate change. To see more and to read about her embroidery processes and the inspiration behind her work, visit Preta’s website here.

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Shona Wilson – Organic Structures

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Patternbank love the work of Australian sculptor Shona Wilson so we contacted her to find out more about her craft. A contemporary Australian sculptor, Shona engages with natural found material to create both abstract and representational, 2-D assemblages and 3-D sculptures. For over 25yrs, Shona has exhibited commercially. More recently she has also been involved with exhibiting science/art collaborations and Ephemeral Art making and facilitating workshops (from preschools to adults). Shona is the creator of the One A Day Ephemeral Art Project, which has inspired people worldwide.

“How can we care for what we do not know? My ongoing engagement with Nature’s fragments and invisible realms brings me closer to understanding the world we share. The materials themselves are storehouses of knowledge and information. They act as ‘keys’, unlocking doors to memory, science, history, imagination and Spirit.The intersects between nature, science, spirit, and art are potent environments to research and play within creatively. Art making can become Ceremony.  My work is an invitation to marvel and wonder at the details within nature which I have presented predominantly through sculptural assemblages. The mirroring of the micro/macro world and its phenomenology captivates me.

See more of Shona’s ephemeral projects here.

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Vision 3: Autumn/Winter 2019/20 Print & Pattern Trend Report

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Welcome to Patternbank’s third print and pattern trend report for Autumn/Winter 2019/20

We aim to innovate and inspire you and your team so you are ahead of the curve for new developments. We’re delivering a collection of inspiring and directional trend reports throughout the season. Each Vision trend alert contains 3 key seasonal print trends. Each trend theme includes an over-arching directional mood page, 2 print direction pages, and 2 colour usage pages.

Vision 3: AW19–20 Print Trend Themes
Chaos Overload / B&W Dimensions / Royal Regency

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Resort 2019 – Print and Pattern Hightlights – Part 1

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Patternbank bring you the strongest print and pattern trends seen at the recent Resort 2019 collections alongside some of our designs from the Patternbank Online Textile Design Studio. The collections were a mix of bright vibrant pattern, with bold stand out tropicals and a new fun take on hand painted florals. Watch out for part 2 of our print trend analysis next week.

Versace / Animal Grunge Texture Mix Active by ahmetsenel / MSGM / Versus Versace / Flat Floral Collage by Josephine Waltz / Temperley London / Blue & Orange Abstract Tropical Camo by Steve Saw / Issey Miyake

Designs available to buy on The Patternbank Studio, Catwalk images via Vogue.com

Issey Miyake / Painted Folk Floral Grannas Rose Garden by Amanda Laing / Etro / Badgley Mischka / Sketched Tropics by Mandarin Frog / Etro / Gucci / Gucci

Designs available to buy on The Patternbank Studio, Catwalk images via Vogue.com

Agnona / Pale Garden by Sabina Gasanova / Dennis Basso / Marissa Webb / Illusion Flower by Tim Lee / Alejandra Alonso Rojas / Painted Summer Florals by Shveta Maini / Red Valentino

Designs available to buy on The Patternbank Studio, Catwalk images via Vogue.com

Missoni / Pinky Leopard by Debra Scrivener / Roberto Cavalli / Snake Skin by MKDesigns / Roberto Cavalli / Just Cavalli / Animal Skin Graphic Pattern by Ozge Basaran Duran / Alice Olivia

Designs available to buy on The Patternbank Studio, Catwalk images via Vogue.com

638 Tropical Vibes by Anna Martinez Snape / Phillip Lim / Emilio Pucci / Diane Von Furstenberg / Gucci / Golden Tropics by Yuliya Shora / Givenchy / Emporio Armani

Designs available to buy on The Patternbank Studio, Catwalk images via Vogue.com

Balmain / Photographic Palm Tree Placement Print by Elvira Vredenburgh / Black & White Palm Trees by Cathrin Gressieker / Tomas Maier / Altuzarra / Chanel / Tomas Maier / Altuzarra

Designs available to buy on The Patternbank Studio, Catwalk images via Vogue.com

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Vision 2: Autumn/Winter 2019/20 Print & Pattern Trend Report

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Welcome to Patternbank’s second print and pattern trend report for Autumn/Winter 2019/20

We aim to innovate and inspire you and your team so you are ahead of the curve for new developments. We’re delivering a collection of inspiring and directional trend reports throughout the season. Each Vision trend alert contains 3 key seasonal print trends. Each trend theme includes an over-arching directional mood page, 2 print direction pages, and 2 colour usage pages.

Vision 2: AW19–20 Print Trend Themes
Trompe L’Oeil / New Botanic / Distorted

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Kasasagi – Nature Inspired Sculpture by Kate Kato

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Patternbank love the intricate work of artist and collector Kate Kato, we got in touch to discover more about her work process and what inspires her to create these beautiful paper and fabric sculptures. Kate lives in the Welsh boarders just outside the small town of Ross on Wye, where her natural environment inspires her daily.

Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you work?

Using recycled paper, fabric and wire I try to capture the delicate detail and beauty of nature. Influenced by plants, insects and found objects, I create intricate, life-sized sculptures and arrange them into collections and dioramas. I have always been fascinated by the natural world and for me my work is very nostalgic, taking me back to my childhood and the curiosity that fuelled my creativity. My work aims to encourage curiosity and promote an awareness of the environment. I want to bring the small, hidden and overlooked details into the public eye and encourage people to consider their importance.

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Hillary Waters Fayle – Nature Re-designed

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Patternbank discovered the beautifully delicate and intricately stitched and cut work of Hillary Waters Fayle. We put a few questions to the artist to find out more about her and what inspires her work.
Can you give us a brief introduction about yourself?
I was born and raised in Buffalo, NY USA and I now live in Richmond VA, where I spend time making my own work, in addition to working as an artist assistant, and teaching part-time at Virginia Commonwealth University. I’m a fairly quiet person, and I dislike being the center of attention. It’s really important to me to be the best person I can be for the people and the world around me. I feel the best when I’m being really productive and I’m getting lots done and I’m able to be mentally present and engaged. I love to make lists, run, cook, spend time with people I love, and I love to read -although I don’t read as much as I’d like to. I also love to be outside, especially in the summer- the heat in Virginia is one of my favorite things about living here.

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Love of the Accidental – Martyn Thompson Studio

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Patternbank recently discovered the work of Martyn Thompson, a photographer who began his career in Fashion, designing clothes. We asked him a few questions to discover more about his work process and what inspires him as a designer.

A brief introduction

I am a photographer and designer and run my design practice, Martyn Thompson Studio, in Soho NYC. My career began hand painting fabrics and designing clothes. Many of my friends also designed and I started to photograph eveyones work which led to me becoming a fashion photographer. Beginning in Sydney, I moved to Paris and later London, where my work broadened into a lifestyle context, working with interiors, travel and food. I love to experiment and over the last decade I founded Martyn Thompson Studio, a design practice where we use my photos as the base to create textiles and wallpaper, homewares and limited edition art.

Tell us about your work & process – any upcoming exhibitions?

Through playing with different ways of reproducing my photographs I discovered the digitalized jacquard loom and the possibitliy to making a photo into a tapestry. This led to creating large scale patterns and weaving them into yardage – now used in both a home and fashion context. When making new patterns we always begin with a photo, or a series of photos – experimenting with these images, printing them in different ways, flipping, reversing and reorienting them, joining different bits together – until eventually a collection emerges. We’ve done a number of installations of this work in the last few years – at the London Design Festival and at the Future Perfect in NYC … and later this year we are exhibiting in Australia.

What creatively inspires you?

In my photos I work mainly with daylight … Light is great source of inspriation to me. It informs the color and creates shape and patterns that are always changing. I am attracted to natural forms … curvaceous shapes… especially flowers. Thank you Martyn we look forward to seeing more of your work in the future. To see more of Martyn’s collection go to Martyn Thompson Studio and Instagram @martynthompsonstudio. Mural in last image by Dove Drury Hornbuckle

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Paris Catwalk Print & Pattern Highlights – Fall 2018 Ready-to-Wear

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Patternbank brings you a concise overview of the most important print & pattern collections, from Fall 2018 RTW Paris Fashion Week. Look out for our A/W18/19 Catwalk Print and Pattern Trend Report coming soon,  an overview of all the recent shows containing the strongest print and pattern trends.

Dries Van Noten

Images via Vogue

Stylised Florals – Detailed Biro Drawings – Art Brut Inspired – Psychedelic Swirly Pattern – Limited Colour – Frenzied Drawing Style – Pen Texture

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Première Vision Spring/Summer 2019 Print & Pattern Trend Report

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Our team travelled to Paris again this year to absorb and experience Première Vision’s Spring/Summer 2019 show. Along with thousands of fashion professionals, designers and students flocking to Parc d’ Expositions, the team joined the throng to gather and record Première Vision’s print and pattern trend forecasts. Once again the smaller trend forum areas were inspiring spaces with plenty of directional print stories for Spring/Summer  2019. We have analysed 10 of the most important print trends coming through for next season.

  • 10 Première Vision print trends for S/S 19

  • 35 pages of inspirational print forecast intelligence

  • Over 120 on trend hand-picked images

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Vision 5: Spring/Summer 2019 Print & Pattern Trend Report

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Welcome to Patternbank’s fifth Vision instalment for Spring/Summer 2019

We aim to innovate and inspire you and your team so you are ahead of the curve for new developments. We’re delivering a collection of inspiring and directional trend reports throughout the season. Each Vision trend alert contains 3 key seasonal print trends. Each trend theme includes an over-arching directional mood page, 2 print direction pages, and 2 colour usage pages.

Vision 5: SS19 Print Trend Themes
Future 70’s / Scenic Statements / Tropical Infusion

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Husmann/Tschaeni – Cosmic Psychedelic

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Patternbank are loving the work of Husmann/Tschaeni (Michael Husmann Tschaeni & Mira Tschaeni)- an artist couple that are based in Switzerland and both studied at the College of Art in Lucerne. They have exhibited between New Delhi, Los Angeles and Melbourne. They work backward, painting in layers on the reverse of acrylic glass, using different materials, such as enamel, oil colour, watercolour, crayon, glitter, and spray. It is like if two completely different, somewhat incompatible picture languages collided when they started working together. But somehow they manage to create pictures, stories, and installations together, without having to change their own individual styles. Enjoy more of their work here & on their Instagram.

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Vision 4: Spring/Summer 2019 Print & Pattern Trend Report

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Welcome to Patternbank’s fourth Vision instalment for Spring/Summer 2019.

Through the season we aim to innovate and inspire you and your team so you are ahead of the curve for new developments. We’ll be delivering a collection of inspiring and directional trend reports throughout the season. Each Vision trend alert contains 3 key seasonal print trends. Each trend theme includes an over-arching directional mood page, 2 print direction pages, and 2 colour usage pages.

Vision 4: SS19 Print Trend Themes
Desert Storm / Latino Folk / Luxe Kingdom

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Lisa Krannichfeld – Illustrative Pattern Mixes

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The Patternbank team are once again loving Lisa Krannichfeld’s mixed media artworks that incorporate watercolour and intense pattern plays. We featured Lisa back in 2015 but spotted some of her powerful new work recently.
Lisa was born and raised in Little Rock, AR in an interesting cultural mix of a Chinese family living in the American South. Her experiences growing up in these two intermixing cultures and their traditions have greatly influenced her work, which primarily focuses on the woman as its subject. Her expressive portraits refute the traditional portrayal of women being passive subjects to gaze upon, evident in their disinterested, and at times defiant expressions. Breaking traditions further, Lisa often uses traditional Chinese ink and watercolour materials in a nontraditional uncontrolled, free-flowing way often mixed with unconventional materials. See more of her stunning work on her website lisakrannichfeld.com or check out her work at The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles March 15-18.

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Philip Beesley – Astrocyte, the Future of Design

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Astrocyte took place at the Design Exchange’s EDIT: Expo for Design, Innovation, and Technology from September 28 to October 8, 2017. The 10 day festival presented to thousands of visitors the ground-breaking innovations that take the UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals to heart, sparking conversations about the future of design. Astrocyte is part of the larger scope of work of the Living Architecture Systems: a research cluster that combines art, architecture, engineering, and science into experiential test-beds, hoping to address questions about the future of built environments – Can architecture integrate living functions? Could future buildings think, and care? And how can we design living architecture that enhances the ways in which we interact with the environment and with each other? To find out more about Astrocyte and its creator, artist and architect Philip Beesley visit Philip Beesley Architect Inc.

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Patternbank Inspiration Christmas Trends 2017

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To get you in the mood for some festive dressing, Patternbank would like to share some of the key Christmas Trends we spotted in stores and online this season. We’ve put together some of our favourite Christmas ideas for you to get decorating and feel that Christmas vibe. Happy Christmas!

Scandinavian by Tatyana Komarova available on the Patternbank Studio, Winter Palace Bauble – John Lewis, Raz Christmas Tree, Dreamcatcher Earrings – Anthropologie, Fendi SS17, Winter Palace Baboushka Family – John Lewis, Blue And White Pattern Bauble – Graham & Green

Elle Decor, Carolein Smit, Prestigious Plumes Ornament – Anthropologie, Nutcracker-Pier 1, Sugar Flowers by @cakeatelieramsterdam, Betty The Bunny – Graham & Green, Bird Paradise Hand Drawn Repeat Pattern by Ania Dergachev available on the Patternbank Studio.

Piñata Christmas Tree Decoration – The Conran Shop, Glinted Houseplant Ornament – Anthropologie, Mexican themed Christmas tree, DIY Christmas tree cactus – Sugar + Cloth, El Dorado by 215funk Design by Luigi Riccardi, Cactus kraft Christmas roll – Paperchase, Cactus Hanging Decorations – Graham & Green, Southern Hemisphere Ethno by Josephine Walz available on the Patternbank Studio

Mushroom Peg Tree Decoration – John Lewis, Woodland Watercolour by Matthew Ponting available on the Patternbank Studio, Corded Jute Ball – The Conran Shop, A festive fairy garden – John Lewis, Hares on the Mountains – Georgina Warne, H&M Christmas window 2017 – Shona Heath, Mushrooms Forest by Camila Coelho available on the Patternbank Studio

Oswald Metallic Glitter Owl – Graham & Green, Wire Doll Form W-German Doll Head, Antique Flowers by Marlou Severijns available on the Patternbank Studio, Tree Decorations – House of Hackney, auntpeaches.com, Embroidered Jacket – Gucci

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Jim Gaylord – Expressive Art Cutouts

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Wow, these beautifully chaotic artworks caught our eye recently. Jim Gaylord another Brooklyn based artist who uses gouache on cutout paper to create these stunning visual statements. We love the technique Gaylord uses within his work. Here rearranging abstract cut out shapes into distorted vibrant compositions. Check out more of his artworks here.

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Phoebe Cummings – Clay Fragments

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Working with predominantly raw clay, Phoebe Cummings creates temporary sculptures and installations, made on site and only lasting the duration of the exhibition. Responding to the natural world around her, her work interprets art and design sources, including porcelain sculpture, botanical illustration, prints and architectural ornament. Patternbank love the natural poetic and delicate fragility of her work, that is only with us for it’s allotted time. Phoebe Cummings has also just been awarded BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour Craft Prize, in partnership with the V&A and the Crafts Council, this prize aims to find and celebrate the most innovative and exciting craft practitioner or designer-maker resident in the UK today. To see more of her beautiful work check out her Instagram.

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