Category Archives: Fabric Design

Collections of Characters to Discover in Harriet Seed's Patterns

Posted at 2 pm on March 31, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Fabric Design, Ink Illustration, Sketchbooks

Bundles of warm characters jump and dance around in the patterns created by Harriet Seed. Rather than just the one or two repeated drawings, there are collections of people animals and objects jostling around the cities and forests. This gives her work many little things to look for and discover.

Hannah Waldron's Landscape-inspired Designs in Textiles and Prints

Posted at 10 pm on February 8, 2013 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Fabric Design, Hand Craft, Screen Printing

Patterns inspired by structures in her surroundings feature in Hannah Waldron’s eclectic mix of work. Her designs are a detailed patchwork of decoration, masses of bold primary colours and sets of fine, parallel lines. While she applies the same draughtsman-like style to her drawings and screen prints, she also works in textiles.

Emily Barletta's Crocheting, Clay, Thread, and Drawing Experiments

Posted at 6 pm on June 6, 2012 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Fabric Design, Hand Craft, Mixed Media

We like the experimentation Emily Barletta is doing with traditional textile techniques and the intertwining of disciplines. Earlier projects have seen her encasing clay sculptures in colourful, snug, crocheted skins. Her recent work is a study into stitched drawing techniques, blurring the seam between drawing and fabric design.

Andy Rementer's Colourful Comic T-shirts

Posted at 11 am on July 19, 2011 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Character Illustration, Comic Art, Fabric Design

Here are some bright and fun T-shirt designs by Philadelphia-based Andy Rementer. His work is full of often pleasingly dark, intelligent humour, and witty commentary on common situations. If that’s your kind of thing, you should also check out his comic, ‘Techno Tuesday‘, which has been running online and in print since 2006.

Exquisitely Deathly T-Shirt Prints by Jules Julien

Posted at 7 pm on June 21, 2011 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Character Illustration, Fabric Design

Using what seems to be a mixture of collage and drawing, Jules Julien created these gorgeous prints for T-shirts. I love how the patterns lead into one another. Being monochrome, the contrast of the busier, filled areas against the blocks of black that create simple shapes, makes for a dramatic effect.

Fashionable Patterns by Inka Jävinen

Posted at 5 pm on February 8, 2011 by Philip Dennis

Posted in: Fabric Design

Inka Jävinen designed these sumptuous prints for silk scarves by Minna Parikka. Mixing hands, legs, and other body parts with delicate peaches and pinks, she’s created a design both elegant and suggestive. I love the way in which she has aligned the found images in such a way that they almost make a crisscross pattern.

Miki Amano's Lush Textures

Posted at 10 am on December 13, 2010 by Katherine Holt

Posted in: Digital Illustration, Fabric Design, Mixed Media, Screen Printing

Textile designer and illustrator Miki Amano infuses her work with rich pattern, texture and colour. From the simple to the busy, the editorial to the children’s, all of her illustrations are exuberant and fun.