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This is another design I created for Make it in Design’s Winter School 2021. The trend brief was Quiet Shadows. This trend balances strength & endurance with delicacy and elegance.

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I was inspired by my own photos of shadows, silhouettes of natural forms, and the Japanese art of flower arranging, Ikebana, to create this mood board.

I chose a simple flower shape and several different widths of wavy lines as my motifs for this design. My color palette has warm oranges combined with desaturated blues and greens.

I created the pattern in Adobe Illustrator. I placed the wavy lines in the background and the flowers in the foreground, keeping in mind Ikebana’s principles. I added transparency to the flowers to blend them into the background a bit.

I added Quiet Blooms to my Redbubble shop on clothing, art prints, home decor, and phone cases.

I created my Bohemian Patchwork pattern for the Kinfolk brief in Winter School 2021 by Make it in Design. This trend combines bohemian quirkiness with folk style to create colorful, maximalist designs.

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Instead of creating a mood board, I used this art journal spread as the inspiration for my pattern.

I used the color palette provided in the brief. I drew the motifs by hand, scanned them, and traced them in Adobe Illustrator.

I added color to the motifs and arranged them in a repeating pattern.

I uploaded the pattern to my Redbubble shop and added it to clothing, home decor, and lifestyle products.