Surface-Pattern Design

Creating Geometric Patterns

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The latest creative exercise in Module 2 by Make it in Design was to create a collection of geometric patterns. We were encouraged not to use any hand-drawn images, but to create patterns with clean graphic lines and geometric shapes.

To get inspired, I paged through several of my art journals looking for geometric designs in my doodles and collages. I created all the patterns in Adobe Illustrator using only the rectangle, ellipse, polygon (for the triangles), and line tools.

Below are a selection of the patterns along with the art journal pages that inspired them.

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Creating My Doodle Design

One of the design collections that I’m creating for my shop is called Express Yourself! These designs have words and images that let people show the world what they love.

I decided to use this art journal spread as inspiration for a Doodle design.

I recreated the doodle pattern using a black Pitt Artist Pen on white paper. Then I scanned it, cleaned it up in Adobe Photoshop, and traced it in Illustrator. I pulled the colors palette from the art journal spread and added them to the pattern.