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 .