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Pedro Friedeberg – Religion, The Occult and Fantasy Lands

By Patternbank On April 25, 2013 · In Inspiration

Patternbank love Pedro Friedeberg’s obsessively crowded and meticulously detailed canvases, with their highly patterned buildings, icons and symbols, they’re a textile designers dream. Featuring references to religion such as Catholiscm and Hinduism, with symbols from the occult and Tantric scriptures, his paintings are full of wonder and fantasy. Into all this he’ll add classical images and Disney figures making them full of surprise and great examples of Surrealism or fantastic realism. Friedeberg was born in Florence, Italy when at the age of 3 his parents immigrated to Mexico. Here he studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana, where he was profoundly influenced by the teaching of Mathias Goeritz. Check out his website where you can read more on his thoughts of the world and art.

Pattern Boundaries – Julie Alpert

By Patternbank On April 24, 2013 · In Print + Pattern

‘Black pattern watercolours’ are the mixed media exploration of physical pattern boundaries by Seattle based artist Julie Alpert. Patternbank are loving Julie’s playful studies of individual pattern and the relationship between their outer boundaries. Mixing watercolour, ink and permanent marker these beautifully created works are of great inspiration. If you happen to be in Seattle over the next couple of days we recommend dropping by Soil Art gallery where Julie is exhibiting until the 27th April.

The Ultimate Spring/Summer 2014 Print Trend Report Collection – 3 x PDF Bundle

By Patternbank On April 19, 2013 · In Trend Forecasts

We’ve taken all 3 of our popular Spring/Summer 2014 Trend Reports and bundled them up into a handy PDF Download. The Collection contains Spring/Summer 2014 Print Trend Reports Part 1 & 2 plus the Première Vision + Indigo Spring/Summer 2014 Print Trend Report at a great value price of £55 / $84 – a saving of £10 / $15 over buying them all separately, highlights include:

28 print trends for Spring/Summer 2014
Over 100 pages of print forecast intelligence
Over 380 inspirational hand-picked images
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Whether you are a small print studio, independent freelance designer, manufacturer or clothing line, this bundle of extensive reports will give you a real insight into the most important print trends for Spring/Summer 2014. These trend reports will become your essential seasonal aid for your new print developments and colour direction.

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Zhou Fan – Layered Dreamscape

By Patternbank On April 18, 2013 · In Inspiration

Chinese illustrator Zhou Fan has a distinct Japanese quality in his art and visual explorations. Fan explains ‘ My paintings are based on dreams that I had as a child of many many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachures and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on me, and I remember them vividly.‘ Patternbank love Fan’s amazing dreamscape visions that use colour, texture and strange subject matter which create some mesmerizing imagery.

Collaboration at Cope-Arnold – Darkness and Beauty

By Patternbank On April 18, 2013 · In Inspiration

Nicolas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold are two talented photographers who met through a commercial project in 2007 and began their first collaboration in October 2009. They combine the mediums of painting, chemistry, sculpture, fashion and installation to great effect creating some impressive projects. Stamen (2010) featured here, shows their interest in the abstract applied to conventional floral arrangements, evoking a dark and almost decaying beauty that transpiers into other areas of their work. Have a look at their ongoing projects at cope-arnold.com.

Psychedelic Tropical Safari – Basement Jaxx

By Patternbank On April 17, 2013 · In Inspiration

If you’re looking for more print trend inspiration for Spring/Summer 2014, look no further than Basement Jaxx’s new video by Big Active’s Mat Maitland. This Psychedelic visual safari takes you on a real journey through some of the key prints themes coming through for S/S14. These include: Tropical Utopia and Scientific Nature from Patternbanks Spring/Summer 2014 Print report Part 1. Other trends translated in the video’s visual exploration include: Tribal Geometries, Fantastic Aqua-Life Earth + Cracks and Fantastic Safari from our Première Vision + Indigo S/S 2014 Print trend report.

The promo, co-directed with Natalia Stuyk, features Mat Maitland’s signature collage style along with specially made items by French hair stylist / fashion designer Charlie Le Mindu and make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench. Maitland also shot the sleeve image which similarly uses a Le Mindu headpiece. (Video at the foot of page)

El Anatsui – Monumental Works

By Patternbank On April 17, 2013 · In Inspiration

El Anatsui’s amazing installations and wall sculptures need to be seen to be believed. Using thousands of aluminium bottle tops and other found materials such as wood and clay he moulds and shapes these magnificent pieces. Like vast folded, sculpted and pieced together fabrics that shimmer and sparkle, they tell cultural and economic stories of their past use. Gravity and Grace : Monumental Works by El Anatsui is his first solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, showing Until August 4th, 2013. Definitely a must see!

Vintage Radio Tuning Dial Graphics – Indiana Radios

By Patternbank On April 10, 2013 · In Graphics

Antique and vintage graphics are such a wealth of inspiration for layout, typography and colour. The Patternbank team stumbled on these stunning antique radio tuning dial graphics and thought we’d share. The collection was curated by Michael Feldt for the Indiana Radio site, which is a huge information database for antique radio enthusiasts. We recommend you delve deeper and check out the site to view more visually inspiring vintage dials and charts.