Category: Blog
Swimwear Trends Summer 2020
Swimwear – Holiday Season Swimwear 2020 is key in everyone’s minds at the end of the season, when everyone takes a break and heads south for a holiday, anywhere close to the sun sand and sea, getting a much-needed rejuvenation, for a couple of weeks and time with the family before heading back to work, … read more
Orla Kiely – Classic Textile Icon
Orla Kiely OBE Orla Kiely was born in 1963 an Irish Fashion Designer living in London, Began her career as a hat designer. She moved into designing for handbags and then on to textile design, kitchenware, and cars. Creativity Orla Kiely thanks her grandmother for bringing creativity into her life and her mother who graduated … read more
Design Challenge 13 / All About Fruit
The Fruit Challenge Design challenge week Thirteen. The surface pattern marketplace sends out a weekly design challenge to all creative designers that have joined their marketplace. The weekly design challenge is a great way to really test their creativity and skills. By accepting the challenge they then have to create a design in their handwriting, … read more
Adobe Illustrator Putting patterns in Repeat
Creating Patterns with Adobe Illustrator Get familiar with Adobe Illustrator working toolbar on the left-hand side. By learning what each tool can do for you can make things so much easier. If you have the creative cloud membership, you get regular updates and you can now customise your toolbar. So you can set up your … read more
Print & Pattern Illustration
Sketching Over the next few months, we will be going over the tasks you need to cover to become a surface pattern designer. If this is something that you have stumbled upon after years of sketching, doodling, and pattern making from your own designs, and feel that this could be what you have been searching … read more
Royalty-Free Original Prints
Royalty-Free Here at the surface pattern marketplace, we offer royalty-free original prints for £39.00. Our prints are all originals from our surface print and textile designs for you to purchase and use for personal use. Purchasing one of our royalty-free original prints on our standard license allows you to use the design/ pattern for digital … read more
Winter Trends ~ Home Decor
Winter Trends There’s no getting away from winter trends. Whether you follow them or not, they are there running alongside our everyday lives. Everything we desire for our homes is mainly designed by trend influencers, from choosing a new paint colour for the lounge, or changing the colour of a throw for your bed, the … read more
Design Challenge 12 / Tales of the Orient
The Oriental Challenge Design challenge week Twelve. The surface pattern marketplace sends out a weekly design challenge to all creative designers that have joined their marketplace. The weekly design challenge is a great way to really test their creativity and skills. By accepting the challenge they then have to create a design in their handwriting, … read more
Design Challenge 11 / Ditsy Floral
The Mini Floral Challenge Design challenge week Eleven. The surface pattern marketplace sends out a weekly design challenge to all creative designers that have joined their marketplace. The weekly design challenge is a great way to really test their creativity and skills. By accepting the challenge they then have to create a design in their … read more
Design Challenge 6 / Overstated Stripes
The Overstated Stripes Challenge Design challenge week six. The surface pattern marketplace now sends out a weekly design challenge to all creative designers and illustrators that have joined their marketplace. By offering a weekly design challenge, it is a great way to really test their skills and creativity. By accepting the challenge they then have … read more