Tigerprint Competition

I spent the last few weeks working on a collection of surface pattern for Tigerprints "Colour" competition. I had to predict colour trends for Spring/Summer 2014 and create our own patterns that could be applied to a wide range of surfaces!

I was inspired by space and galaxy prints based on the fact that Fayes comet will be passing by in May next year. I really enjoyed making a mood board to submit and playing around with colour palettes.

Here are my 4 final pattern designs:

Pretty pleased with them since this is the first time I have done a project like this, my brain started to melt a little last week after spending 3 full days staring at a screen full of pattern on Photoshop!

I also mocked up a few things to show how they would look on different surfaces :)

Please let me know your opinions on these, am trying to get as much feedback as possible to improve what I am doing in my final major project :)

Colour swatches and Comets

Starting off some work for a competition today, all to do with colour and surface pattern design. Here are some things I have been playing around with. I used a colour palette generator here where you put the URL of an image and it gives you a set of colours from that image. I find it really helps as a starting point even if you then edit the colours after. 

Can I just mention how much I love the moomins?! Tove Jansson is one of my favourite illustrators and I really love the cover shown above. See this blog post over on my other blog account about when I found a load of Moomin models where I live back home .

collaborative space boy animation!

Have spent all day today making an animation with Holly Liminton, Andjela Vranjes and Claire Knight. Each of us provided different images and characters and helped out with the story. This was the first time any of us have used After Effects software and i think it came out pretty well :)